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Personal info

Full name
WARE, Robert Edward
Date of birth
13 October 1918
Age
26
Place of birth
Newport News, Virginia
Hometown
Hilton Village, Warwick County, Virginia

Military service

Service number
33856690
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
61st Armored Infantry Battalion,
10th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
21 March 1945
Place of death
Landau in der Pfalz, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 9 19

Immediate family

Members
Phillip F. Ware (father)
Mary F. (Dickinson) Ware (mother)
Mary J. Ware (sister)
Phillip F. Ware Jr. (brother)
Norma D. Ware (sister)
John M. Ware (brother)
Florence G. Ware (sister)
Rose B. Ware (sister)
Mildred L. (Tabb) Ware (wife)
Sandra L. Ware (daughter)

More information

Pfc Robert E. Ware graduated from Morrison High School and was employed at the Newport News Shipyard and Dry Dock Company in the brass gallery machine shop before he enlisted in Richmond, Virginia, on 12 July 1944. He was sent overseas in December 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments to his head.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Tarkington Family Tree / 1930 Census / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.10tharmored.com, www.newspapers.com – Daily Press - 6 April 1945

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Luxembourg American Cemetery, www.newspapers.com – Daily Press - 6 April 1945 - Newport News Daily Press