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BARNES, Glen Eugene - Date of
birth
27 November 1923 -
Age
21 - Place of
birth
Enio, Garfield County, Oklahoma -
Hometown
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
Personal info
Military service
- Service
number
38399123 -
Rank
Corporal -
Function
unknown -
Unit
D Company,
1st Battalion,
422nd Infantry Regiment,
106th Infantry Division
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Awards
Bronze Star
Death
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Status
Died non-Battle - Date of
death
22 March 1945 - Place of
death
Zeitz, Germany
Grave
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Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle - Tablets of the Missing
Immediate family
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Members
Earl C. Barnes (father)
Elizabeth F. Barnes (mother)
Lawrence Barnes (brother)
Betty Barnes (sister)
Cecil Barnes (brother)
Mary G. (Thomas) Barnes (wife)
More information
Cpl Glen E. Barnes graduated from Putnam City High School in 1941 and attended Oklahoma A & M University.He was taken prisoner in the vicinity of Schlausenbach, Germany on 16 December 1944. He was transported to the POW Camp Stalag IV-B in Muhlberg.
He was reported by a fellow prisoner to have died of malnutrition and dysentry in a hospital in Zietz while being held as a POW. They had fallen out on one of the marches from one camp to another. They were picked up and placed in that hospital.
He reported that the remains of Cpl Barnes were interred outside the city of Zeitz, somewhere between the "Shutzenplatz" POW Barrackes and the Kriegsgefangener Krankenrevier. He identified Cpl Barnes by sight and by the dog tags and personal effects which he took from the body. One pair of tags was buried with the body.
Several unknown bodies were recovered from Zeitz after the war of which most could be identified. In december 1947 an investigation of the remains of Unknown X-5248 at Ardennes was associated with Cpl Barnes. Later this proved to be wrong.
Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Peter Schouteten, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - 1930 Census, Family Tree, IDPF
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Putnam City High School - 1941, Oklahoma A&M University - 1942