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Personal info

Full name
SULLIVAN, Robert Arthur
Date of birth
6 September 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Suffolk County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31304455
Rank
Technician Fifth Grade
Function
unknown
Unit
A Company,
36th Tank Battalion,
8th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
5 March 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Rheinsberg, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
O 19 16

Immediate family

Members
John L. Sullivan (father)
Helen M. (Shea) Sullivan (mother)
Lawrence J. Sullivan (brother)
Helen M. Sullivan (sister)
Daniel P. Sullivan (brother)
Edward L. Sullivan (brother)
Thomas W. Sullivan (brother)
William G. Sullivan (brother)
Mary V. Sullivan (sister)
Ruth A. Sullivan (sister)
Lorraine Sullivan (sister)

More information

T/5 Robert A. Sullivan attended high school for four years and was employed at the Boston & Maine (B&M) Railway.
He enlisted on 17 March 1943 at Boston, Massachusetts.

On the bottom picture Brig Gen Colson decorates the grave of T/5 Sullivan at Margraten when the cemetery still had a temporary status.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, Carla Mans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.8th-armored.org, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record, www.newspapers.com, WWII Draft Card

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet / Vindicator - courtesy of the 8th Armored Division Association, www.ancestry.com - Rasmussen Family Tree