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Personal info

Full name
MATHER, Gordon Edward
Date of birth
13 August 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Rhodesia, South Africa
Hometown
Tippecanoe County, Indiana

Military service

Service number
15107606
Rank
Sergeant
Function
Squad Leader
Unit
F Company,
2nd Battalion,
506th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division,
3rd PLatoon
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
20 December 1944
Place of death
Bastogne, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
I 12 8

Immediate family

Members
Arlen R. Mather (father)
Faye M. (Smith) Mather (mother)
Dorothy Mather (sister)
Kenneth R. Mather (brother)
Robert E. Mather (brother)
Mary E. Mather (sister)

More information

Sgt Gordon E. Mather attended Franklin High School and participated in several horse show events.

He volunteered for the US Army at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana on 19 August 1942.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Grand Failly, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com - Orville L. Kline, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Littell Family Tree / 1940 Census, http://www.ww2-airborne.us, www.findagrave.com - Allison Ferris Pierc, www.newspapers.com - The Franklin Evening Star
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Dominique Portier / Allison Ferris Pierce, www.newspapers.com - The Indianapolis Star