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Personal info

Full name
BARRETT, John Kenneth
Date of birth
4 September 1911
Age
33
Place of birth
Montreal, Canada
Hometown
Windsor County, Vermont

Military service

Service number
31403754
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
501st Parachute Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

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

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 16 50

Immediate family

Members
Ruddell L Barrett (father)
Lillian Barrett (mother)
Lillian M. Barrett (sister)

More information

Pvt John K. Barrett attended college and was an industrial engineer in the Time Study Division of Jones and Lamson Machine Company.

He enlisted in Rutland, Vermont on 24 January 1944 and was sent overseas in August 1944.

He died from wounds he received on 3 January 1945.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Grand Failly, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.findagrave.com - Russ Pickett, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record, http://www.ww2airborne.us, WWII Draft Card
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Astrid