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Personal info

Full name
PICOTTE, Emery Omer
Date of birth
21 March 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Rhode Island
Hometown
Providence County, Rhode Island

Military service

Service number
31183020
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
G Company,
3rd Battalion,
501st Parachute Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
3 January 1945
Place of death
Near Neffe, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
C 10 4

Immediate family

Members
Seraphin R. Picotte (father)
Marie R. (Dupre) Picotte (mother)
Rose E. Picotte (sister)
George Picotte (brother)
Beatrice Picotte (sister)
Hervey Picotte (brother)

More information

Pvt Emery O. Picotte enlisted in Providence, Rode Island on 17 October 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, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Frewen Family Tree / 1930 Census, http://www.ww2-airborne.us
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Luxembourg American Cemetery, Jonathan Dennis - great nephew