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Personal info

Full name
GILBERT, Paul
Date of birth
7 November 1916
Age
28
Place of birth
Missouri
Hometown
Johnston County, Oklahoma

Military service

Service number
38694700
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
F Company,
2nd Battalion,
377th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
22 November 1944
Place of death
Metz, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 8 47

Immediate family

Members
Columbus J. Gilbert (father)
Lillian F. (Wofford) Gilbert (mother)
Emaline Gilbert (sister)
Harrison Gilbert (brother)
Harrison C. Gilbert (brother)
Vada A. Gilbert (wife)

More information

Pvt Paul Gilbert enlisted in Fort Sill, Oklahoma on 7 April 1944.

He worked on a farm before he enlisted.

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

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com - A Grateful American, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Burk Family Tree, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php
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