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Personal info

Full name
WHITMORE, Glen Vincent
Date of birth
11 June 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Spring Prairie Township, Walworth County, Wisconsin
Hometown
Burlington, Walworth County, Wisconsin

Military service

Service number
36989401
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
I Company,
3rd Battalion,
137th Infantry Regiment,
35th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
2 January 1945
Place of death
Villers-la-Bonne-Eau, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 1 35

Immediate family

Members
Alba D. Whitmore (father)
Matie (Ingham) Whitmore (mother)
Rex I. Whitmore (brother)
Ned C. Whitmore (brother)
Albert Whitmore (brother)
Edith Whitmore (wife)

More information

Pvt Glen V. Whitmore attended high school for four years and was employed at the Cudahy Brothers Company before he enlisted. He arrived in France on 9 December 1944.

He is remembered at the Hickory Grove Cemetery in Spring Prairie, Walworth County, Wisconsin.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Foss Westgate Call Family Tree, After Action Report 35th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com -
LBS, www.newspapers.com - The Journal Times Wicsonsin 26 January 1945 / The Capital Times 19 February 1945
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery / LBS