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Personal info

Full name
RIDDLE, Robert Bouseman
Date of birth
10 February 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Portland, Multomah County, Oregon
Hometown
Oakland, Alameda County, California

Military service

Service number
39045723
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
A Company,
63rd Armored Infantry Battalion,
11th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
31 December 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Rechrival-Pinsamont, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
I 10 25

Immediate family

Members
Julius M. Riddle (father)
Marjorie E. (Moores) Riddle (mother)
Jacqueline A. Riddle (sister)
Marilyn (Racine) Riddle (wife)

More information

Pfc Robert B. Riddle graduated from Berkeley High School in 1941 and attended the University of California. He was employed at the Richmond Shipbuilding Corporation.

He was in the Army Specialized Training Program (A.S.T.P.), undergoing air cadet training until March 1944, when the program was discontinued. He then was transferred to the infantry.

Pfc Riddle is remembered at the Riddle Cemetery in Riddle, Douglas County, Oregon 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 Records / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 /
https://newspaperarchive.com - Oakland Tribune 31 January 1945
https://newspaperarchive.com - Berkleley Daily Gazette 19 January 1945, www.11tharmoreddivision.com
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, University of California - Berkeley, 1942, www.findagrave.com - Ida Baker