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BUPP, Ervin Francis - Date of
birth
16 October 1920 -
Age
24 - Place of
birth
Pennsylvania -
Hometown
Carroll County, Maryland
Personal info
Military service
- Service
number
33887901 -
Rank
Private First Class -
Function
unknown -
Unit
I Company,
3rd Battalion,
22nd Infantry Regiment,
4th Infantry Division
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Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart
Death
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Status
Killed in Action - Date of
death
28 February 1945 - Place of
death
Dausfeld, Germany
Grave
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Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle -
Tablets of the Missing
* This soldier has been accounted for. A rosette has been placed next to his name.
Immediate family
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Members
Francis E. Bupp (father)
Ida J. (Markey) Bupp (mother)
Walter M. Bupp (brother)
More information
Pfc Ervin F. Bupp enlisted at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland on 11 May 1944.He volunteered for a mission which called for silencing a German machine gun nest on a hill near Dausfeld.
A fellow soldier of I Company witnessed that both Pfc Donald L. Seger and Pfc Ervin F. Bupp sought refuse in a shell crater and were killed by small arms fire. After the battle a search to find the remains of missing soldiers was undertaken but those two men were not found.
On 24 March 1969 a ordnance disposal team was cleaning the area of ammunition left behind during the battle of February and March 1945 to prepare the area to build a new highway, when the remains of both soldiers were found in a shallow crater.
Ervin Bupp was given his final resting place at the Salem Union Cemetery in Jacobus, Pennsylvania.
His name is permanently inscribed on the Tablets of the Missing at Henri-Chapelle. A rosette is placed next to his name to mark that his remains have been recovered.
Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - WWII Enlistment Record / 1930 Census, www.findagrave.com
Photo source: Astrid van Erp