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Personal info

Full name
ROPER, Amory S
Date of birth
1924
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Florida
Hometown
Richmond County, Georgia

Military service

Service number
14139426
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
H Company,
3rd Battalion,
506th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
10 January 1945
Place of death
Bastogne, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
I 9 12

Immediate family

Members
Ralph W. Roper (father)
Leila E. (Sibley) Roper (mother)
Mary E. Roper (sister)
Ralph W. Roper Jr. (brother)
Frances Roper (sister)
Bettie G. Roper (sister)
Edna E. Roper (sister)

More information

Pfc Amory S. Roper volunteered for the U.S. Army in Fort McPherson Atlanta, Georgia on 2 October 1942.

He attended high school for 4 years and was a mechanic.

He was first buried at Temporary American Military Cemetery 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 / Coward and Associated Families, http://www.ww2-airborne.us
Photo source: Peter Schouteten