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Personal info

Full name
BROOKS, Charles Burnell
Date of birth
18 August 1913
Age
31
Place of birth
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
Hometown
Hudson County, New Jersey

Military service

Service number
42081573
Rank
Private First Class
Function
Rifleman
Unit
K Company,
3rd Battalion,
116th Infantry Regiment,
29th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
20 November 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Ungershausen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
E 9 15

Immediate family

Members
William N. Brooks (father)
Anna L. Brooks (mother)
Elizabeth M. Brooks (sister)
Marjorie W. Brooks (sister)
Marian L. (Treash) Brooks (wife)

More information

Pfc Charles Brooks graduated from Oberlin College in 1935 and studied for his master's degree at the University of Chicago. He was a professor of English at Iowa State College.

He enlisted on 8 December 1943 at Camden, New Jersey.

He joined his unit from a Replacement Depot on 8 September 1944 and was promoted to Pfc on 1 November 1944.

Pfc Charles Brooks is remembered at the Wakeman Township Cemetery in Wakeman, Huron County, Ohio.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, www.findagrave.com, The Akron Beacon - 29 October 1938

Photo source: www.findagrave.com, Oberlin College - 1935, www.ancestry.com - dennis201