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Personal info

Full name
BRANT, Edgar R
Date of birth
2 August 1912
Age
32
Place of birth
Illinois
Hometown
Sioux City, Woodbury County, Iowa

Military service

Service number
37486782
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
L Company,
3rd Battalion,
377th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
15 November 1944
Place of death
France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 26 43

Immediate family

Members
George T. Brant (father)
Laurel M. Brant (mother)
Charles H. Brant (brother)
Helen G. Brant (sister)

More information

Pvt Edgar R. Brant enlisted on 4 November 1943 and was stationed at Camp Wolters, Texas and Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He was sent overseas in August 1944.

He was first buried at Temporary American Military Cemetery of Limey, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com - A Grateful American, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930 Census, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php
Photo source: Sioux City Journal 7 December 1944