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Personal info

Full name
ROBERTS, John R
Date of birth
1920
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Massachusetts
Hometown
Whitman, Plymouth County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
11007173
Rank
Private First Class
Function
Rifleman
Unit
C Company,
1st Battalion,
318th Infantry Regiment,
80th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
12 November 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Lucy, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
A 20 15

Immediate family

Members
Ernest F. Roberts (brother)

More information

Pfc John R. Roberts attended high school for two years and was a production worker in a shoe company before he joined the Regular Army in the Coast Artillery Corps on 13 July 1940.

Pfc Roberts was fatally wounded by artillery shell fragments in the thorax.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930/1940 Census / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.80thdivision.com
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Laura S