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Personal info

Full name
EDWARDS, Horace Owen
Date of birth
6 June 1918
Age
26
Place of birth
Moore County, Tennessee
Hometown
Fayetteville, Lincoln County, Tennessee

Military service

Service number
34141835
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
702nd Tank Destroyer Battalion
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
7 October 1944
Place of death
Aachen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Walls of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
James A. Edwards (father)
Ida C. (Warden) Edwards (mother)
Elizabeth C. Edwards (sister)
James A. Edwards (brother)
Helen Edwards (sister)
Robert N. Edwards (brother)
Harold W. Edwards (brother)
William H. Edwards (brother)

More information

Pfc Horace O. Edwards enlisted at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia on 25 June 1941.

Source of information: André Koch, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1920/1930/1940 Census, www.findagrave.com - Michael Pitcock

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.findagrave.com - Michael Pitcock