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Personal info

Full name
REEVES, Earl Thomas
Date of birth
12 August 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Delano, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Delano, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33368117
Rank
Private
Function
Automatic Rifleman
Unit
K Company,
3rd Battalion,
318th Infantry Regiment,
80th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
15 September 1944
Place of death
unknown

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 28 90

Immediate family

Members
Clara E. Reeves (mother)

More information

Pvt Earl T. Reeves attended high school for three years before he enlisted in Allentown, Pennsylvania on 28 September 1942.

He was seriously wounded in action on 14 September when the 3rd Battalion attacked Atton and Mousson Hill, France.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com – 1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / Buchholz-McFarland Family Tree, www.80thdivision.com

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Walter Synold