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Personal info

Full name
WARREN, Charles W
Date of birth
4 August 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Kansas
Hometown
Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
16017001
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
10th Infantry Regiment,
5th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
21 September 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Pournoy-la-Chétive, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 22 105

Immediate family

Members
John W. Warren (father)
Mattie A. (Underwood) Warren (mother)
Beulah M. Warren (sister)

More information

S/Sgt Charles W. Warren joined the Regular Army in Peoria, Illinois on 11 October 1940 and served in Iceland for eighteen months.

He was initially buried at the Temporary American Miliatry Cemetery in Limey, France.

He is also remembered at the Arrowsmith Township Cemetery in Arrowsmith, Illinois.

Source of information: Leo Minne, Kathy McDermott, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com – 1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / Shofner Family Tree, A footsoldier for Patton / Michael C. Bilder James G. Bilder, The 5th Infantry Division in the ETO

Photo source: www.findagrave.com, The Pantagraph - 16 October 1944