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Personal info

Full name
HILL, Eldred Vernon "Chic"
Date of birth
22 May 1915
Age
29
Place of birth
Lowes, Graves County, Kentucky
Hometown
Mayfield, Graves County, Kentucky

Military service

Service number
35708138
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
K Company,
3rd Battalion,
320th Infantry Regiment,
35th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
16 September 1944
Place of death
Near Haraucourt, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 13 86

Immediate family

Members
Herbert Hill (father)
Ethel M. (Whitledge) Hill (mother)
Mabel Hill (sister)
Aubrey M. Hill (brother)
Mildred (Drew) Hill (wife)

More information

Pfc Eldred V. Hill attended college and was employed with the Graves County Board of Education as a teacher and also coach of a basketball team at Lowes before he enlisted in Evansville, Indiana on 21 August 1943. He was sent overseas in May 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments to his loin.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Cemetery in Andille, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.memorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card, After Action Report 35th Infantry Division, www.newspapers.com - The Paducah Sun Democrat - 3 October 1944
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Carla Hill Brown, www.ancestry.com - Carla Hill Brown