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Personal info

Full name
PERKINS, Charles Merton
Date of birth
24 March 1920
Age
23
Place of birth
Belfast, Waldo County, Maine
Hometown
Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31068762
Rank
Corporal
Function
unknown
Unit
16th Infantry Regiment,
1st Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
4 August 1943
Place of death
Troina, Sicily

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
A 17 43

Immediate family

Members
Herman Perkins (father)
Stella L. (Hamilton) Perkins (mother)
Herman J. Perkins (brother)

More information

Cpl Charles M. Perkins was a machinist before he enlisted at Fort Devens, Massachusetts on 25 February 1942.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Mount Soprano, Italy.

His brother Herman J. Perkins is buried next to him.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Perkins Family Tree / Maine Birth Records, www.16thinfassn.org,

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Nicole Leibrecht Gros / Laura S