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Personal info

Full name
SMITH, Charles Earnest
Date of birth
10 June 1918
Age
26
Place of birth
Blue Jay, Raleigh County, West Virginia
Hometown
Raleigh County, West Virginia

Military service

Service number
35448967
Rank
Private First Class
Function
Ammunition Bearer
Unit
H Company,
3rd Battalion,
330th Infantry Regiment,
83rd Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
26 December 1944
Place of death
Strass-Grosshau, Hürtgen Forest, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
O 10 15

Immediate family

Members
Ernest C. Smith (father)
Docie F. (Cox) Smith (mother)
Orville R. Smith (brother)
William O. Smith (brother)
Milton Smith (brother)
Herbert Smith (brother)
Rachel A. Smith (sister)
Bertha Smith (sister)
Nellie Smith (sister)

More information

Pfc Charles E. Smith was a miner.

He enlisted in Huntington, West Virginia on 10 October 1942 and trained at Camp Atterbury in Indiana and Camp Breckinridge in Kentucky. In March 1944, he was sent overseas.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, Raf Dyckmans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, http://83rdinfdivdocs.org, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record, www.newspaperarchive.com - Beckley Post-Herald, WWII Draft Card

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Des Philippet, www.newspaperarchive.com - Beckley Post-Herald