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Personal info

Full name
PYLE, Robert Eugene
Date of birth
16 August 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland
Hometown
Wiley Ford, Mineral County, West Virginia

Military service

Service number
35846985
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
L Company,
3rd Battalion,
347th Infantry Regiment,
87th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
2 January 1945
Place of death
Bonnerue, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 9 76

Immediate family

Members
William A. Pyle (father)
Etta M. (Evans) Pyle (mother)
Glenn W. Pyle (brother)
Chester A. Pyle (brother)

More information

Pfc Robert E. Pyle he enlisted in Clarksburg, West Virginia on 2 December 1943. He was sent overseas October 1944.

On 1 January 1945, L Company lost ten men in Bonnerue.

Together with several other casualties, they were listed as killed in action on 2 January in Bras. This is incorrect but this mistake is most likely caused by the confusion during this period of fierce fighting.

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

He is remembered at the Mount Olive Cemetery in Inkerman, Hardy County, West Virginia.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930 Census / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, http://87thinfantrydivision.com, www.findagrave.com – Mary Poland, www.newspapers.com – The Cumberland News 1 February 1945
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Luxembourg American Cemetery / Mary Poland