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Personal info

Full name
BETHUY, Reginald James
Date of birth
15 June 1915
Age
29
Place of birth
New Baltimore, Macomb County, Michigan
Hometown
Macomb County, Michigan

Military service

Service number
36122782
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
F Company,
2nd Battalion,
401st Glider Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
1 October 1944
Place of death
The Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
M 2 3

Immediate family

Members
Eugene Bethuy (father)
Lucy M. (Marsack) Bethuy (mother)
Georgiana Bethuy (sister)
Frederick D. Bethuy (brother)
Germaine Bethuy (sister)
Catherine M. Bethuy (sister)
Irene F. Bethuy (sister)
Karl E. Bethuy (brother)
Claire Bethuy (sister)
Harriet R. Bethuy (sister)
Bernadine Bethuy (sister)

More information

Pfc Reginald J. Bethuy was employed as a baker in a retail bakery.

He enlisted in Detroit, Michigan on 10 July 1941.

He was wounded in action in an arm on 7 June 1944 and returned to to his unit on 7 July 1944.

Pfc Bethuy is remembered at Saint Mary's Cemetery in New Baltimore, Macomb County, Michigan with a memorial marker.

Source of information: FOHF, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.findagrave.com, http://www.ww2-airborne.us/, www.ancestry.com - Desrosiers Family Tree

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.honorstates.org, www.findagrave.com - AmyKey / Stephanie