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Personal info

Full name
PENTECOST, Robert Bennett
Date of birth
8 April 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
Hometown
East St. Louis, St. Clair County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
36985389
Rank
Private
Function
Light Machine Gunner
Unit
157th Infantry Regiment,
45th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
16 January 1945
Place of death
Reipertswiller, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
E 18 42

Immediate family

Members
Bennett A. Pentecost (father)
Ida R. (Reynolds) Pentecost (mother)
Alice D. Pentecost (sister)
Evelyn R. Pentecost (sister)
Thomas J. Pentecost (brother)
Caroline I. (Hawkins) Pentecost (wife)
Robert B. Pentecost (son)
Karen L. Pentecost (daughter)
Edward A. Pentecost (son)

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Pentecost Family Tree, http://www.45thdivision.org, www.findagrave.com – Don J
Photo source: www.ancestry.com - Masantarossa