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Personal info

Full name
MATHEWS, Elmer Jay
Date of birth
20 May 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Chautauqua County, New York
Hometown
Chautauqua County, New York

Military service

Service number
32930151
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
194th Glider Infantry Regiment,
17th Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
7 January 1945
Place of death
Near Flamierge, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 9 16

Immediate family

Members
Benjamin M. Mathews (father)
Mattie A. (Lanning) Mathews (mother)
Harriet E. Mathews (sister)
Florence B. Mathews (sister)
Stanley B. Mathews (brother)
Robert L. Mathews (brother)
Kenneth W. Mathews (brother)
Dorothy Mathews (wife)

More information

Pfc Elmer J. Mathews worked in an automobile factory before he enlisted in Buffalo, New York on 2 April 1943.

He is remembered at the Sunset Hill Cemetery in Jamestown, Chautauqua County, New York.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Grand Failly, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record, http://www.ww2-airborne.us, www.findagrave.com - Daniel and Audrey Briggs
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery / Daniel and Audrey Briggs