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Personal info

Full name
BERRY, Elmer Romanzo
Date of birth
2 August 1910
Age
34
Place of birth
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
Hometown
Mayville, Chautauqua County, New York

Military service

Service number
42085471
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
101st Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
2 January 1945
Place of death
Wiltz, Luxembourg

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 15 18

Immediate family

Members
Elmer A. Berry (father)
Clara E. (Jenness) Berry (mother)
Marjorie L. Berry (sister)
Verna E. Berry (sister)
Anna I. (Young) Berry (wife)

More information

Sgt Elmer R. Berry attended college for one year and was employed as a fireman in the Jamestown Fire Department.

He enlisted at Fort Dix, New Jersey on 29 February 1944 and was went overseas 7 October 1944.

He is also remembered at the Sunset Hill Cemetery in Lakewood, Chautauqua County, New York.

The Jamestown Fire Department dedicated a new fire station in his honor. He was the only fireman from the department who was killed of 31 who served.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Jennes of NH and Keene of RI, www.findagrave.com - CA Brown / David Hutchins Israel, www.fold3.com - 26th Infantry Division
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Silvano Theunissen / CA Brown, Jamestown Post Journal - 1 September 1945