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Personal info

Full name
REAMER, Jack Maurice
Date of birth
11 June 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
LeRoy, Genesee County, New York
Hometown
Genesee County, New York

Military service

Service number
32844705
Rank
Corporal
Function
unknown
Unit
E Company,
2nd Battalion,
193rd Glider Infantry Regiment,
17th Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
16 January 1945
Place of death
Near Flamizoulle, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 9 34

Immediate family

Members
Morton Reamer (father)
Ellen M. Reamer (mother)
Margorie Reamer (sister)

More information

Cpl Jack M. Reamer graduated from LeRoy High School where he was very active in atlectics and worked on a farm.

He enlisted in Rochester, New York on 6 April 1943.

During a heavy enemy artillery barrage, Cpl Reamer was struck and instantly killed by shell fragments.

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 / 1940 Census, http://www.ww2-airborne.us
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery, Marcel van Aalzum