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Personal info

Full name
VAN BUREN, Rollin John
Date of birth
22 December 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Salem County, New Jersey
Hometown
Salem County, New Jersey

Military service

Service number
20226258
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
Cannon Company,
324th Infantry Regiment,
44th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
22 December 1944
Place of death
East of Sarreguemines, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
A 28 14

Immediate family

Members
William Van Buren (father)
Agnes T. (Shinn) Van Buren (mother)
William Van Buren (brother)
Austin Van Buren (brother)
Margaret Van Buren (sister)
Alice Van Buren (sister)
Norma E. (Spitznogle) Van Buren (wife)

More information

Pfc Rollin J. Van Buren worked on a farm before he joined the National Guard in Salem, New Jersey on 16 September 1940. He was sent overseas in September 1944.

He died in a field hospital to the effects of artillery shell fragments in his leg.

Two of his brothers, Austin and William, served in the Pacific.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Anne Fenton & Walt Wheatley Tree / 1930 Census / Washington County Marriages / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com - MAJ Jimmy Cotton, www.newspapers.com - The Daily Journal 15 January 1945
Photo source: -, www.newspapers.com - Vineland Times-Journal