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Personal info

Full name
RION, Aubrey Holbrook
Date of birth
22 January 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
South Carolina
Hometown
Richland County, South Carolina

Military service

Service number
O-1309833
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
501st Parachute Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
20 December 1944
Place of death
Bastogne, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 9 50

Immediate family

Members
Alva H. Rion (father)
Willodene E. (Blythe) Rion (mother)
Wallace Rion (brother)
Willodene Rion (sister)
Irving Rion (brother)
Mary B. Rion (sister)
James W. Rion (brother)
Ruby J. (Stevenson) Rion (wife)
Aubrey H. Rion Jr. (son)

More information

1st Lt Aubrey H. Rion enlisted in Fort Jackson Columbia, South Carolina on 30 June 1942.

He graduated from Columbia High School and was a teacher before he enlisted. He attended Clemson University, with the goal of becoming a doctor. While at Clemson, he played quarterback.

He is remembered at the Elmwood Memorial Gardens in Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina.

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

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.findagrave.com - Suzanne TF / Kenneth Mc Caw, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930 Census / Williams Rose Family Tree / Kelly Dane Watford, http://www.ww2-airborne.us
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Robin Pellicci / Kenneth Mc Caw, Clemson University