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Personal info

Full name
NEWMAN, Edwin Karl "Benny"
Date of birth
13 July 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Franklin, Macon County, North Carolina
Hometown
Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina

Military service

Service number
O-379735
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
Company Commander
Unit
C Company,
7th Armored Infantry Battalion,
8th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
26 February 1945
Place of death
Montfort, the Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
D 7 14

Immediate family

Members
Paul O. Newman (father)
Freda (Dietz) Newman (mother)
Paul R. Newman (brother)
Phillip G. Newman (brother)
Frederick L. Newman (brother)
Stephanie A. Newman (sister)
Elsie L. Newman (sister)
Lucille A. Newman (sister)
Daisy F. (Groner) Newman (wife)
Beverly J. Newman (daughter)

More information

1st Lt Edwin K. Newman was born in Franklin and spent his early boyhood days there. He moved to Winston-Salem with his parents, and graduated from Reynolds High School in 1935. Following his graduation from Citadel (Military College) Charleston, South Carolina in 1939, from which he received his commission, he was an instructor at Fort Benning in Georgia. He entered the armed forces on 4 January 1942.
At the Citadel he majored in Business Administration and where he acquired the nickname 'Benny'.

Cadet Company B. 1st Lieutenant (Source: Sphinx 1939).

Source of information: Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, http://thecitadelmemorialeurope.wordpress.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Family Trees / 1940 Census, http://newspapers.digitalnc.org

Photo source: www.citadel.edu, Roger Long, www.ancestry.com - The Citadel Yearbook 1939