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Personal info

Full name
HEWITT, Roy James
Date of birth
15 March 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Bennington, Bennington County, Vermont
Hometown
Baldwinville, Worcester County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31388730
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
63rd Armored Infantry Battalion,
11th Armored Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
13 January 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Bertogne, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
D 5 19

Immediate family

Members
Royal A. Hewitt (father)
Elsie J. (Hall) Hewitt (mother)

More information

Pfc Roy J. Hewitt graduated in 1943 from Templeton High School in Massachusetts.

He enlisted in Boston, Massachusetts on 6 July 1943. He was selected for the Army Specialized Training Program (A.S.T.P.) and studied civil engineering at College of Puget Sound in Oregon. When the program was abandoned, he was transferred to Camp Cook, California. He was sent overseas in October 1944.


Pfc Hewitt is remembered at Greenlawn Cemetery in Templeton, Worcester County, Massachusetts with a memorial marker.

Source of information: André Koch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Vermont, Birth Records, http://www.11tharmoreddivision.com, https://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org - After action report, 63rd Armored Infantry Battalion
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery / soilsister