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Personal info

Full name
PARTIN, Lester Steve
Date of birth
21 January 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Toombs County, Georgia
Hometown
Toombs County, Georgia

Military service

Service number
34686971
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
633rd Quartermaster Laundry Company
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
1 December 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of the Julia Mine, Eygelshoven, The Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
C 6 20

Immediate family

Members
Bud G. Partin (father)
Sally N. (Smith) Partin (mother)
William F. Partin (brother)
Lula V. Partin (sister)
Eula C. Partin (sister)
Ernest G. Partin (brother)
Inez Partin (sister)
Herbert Partin (brother)
Geneva Partin (sister)
Ruby Partin (sister)
A. Earl Partin (brother)

More information

Along with seventeen comrades and an employee, Pvt Partin was killed during an arial attack on a mess hall in the area of the Julia Mine.

Pvt Lester S. Partin is remembered in Lyons, Georgia at the Toombs County War Memorial.

He is also commemorated on a Remembrance Plaque in Eygelshoven, The Netherlands.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Family Trees, http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/archive/index.php?t-5429.html, WWII Draft Cards, 1930 Census

Photo source: www.findagrave.com, Fred, Tabitha Partin Hutto, E. Grace Hightower, Ben Savelkoul