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Personal info

Full name
PEPPER, Charles Junior
Date of birth
30 January 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Kampsville, Calhoun County, Illinois
Hometown
Calhoun County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
36446619
Rank
Technician Fifth Grade
Function
unknown
Unit
633rd Quartermaster Laundry Company
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

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

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
D 4 28

Immediate family

Members
Charles S. Pepper (father)
Lucy A. (Bunch) Pepper (mother)
Alfred L. Pepper (brother)
Erma W. Pepper (sister)
Velma L. Pepper (sister)
Alberta Pepper (sister)
Donald Pepper (brother)

More information

T/5 Charles J. Pepper worked as a farm hand before he enlisted on 4 February 1943 in Peoria, Illinois.

During a German aerial attack on a mess hall in the area of the Julia Mine, seventeen servicemen and an employee of the mine were killed.

T/5 Pepper is commemorated on a remembrance plaque in Eygelshoven, the Netherlands.

He is remembered at the cemetery of Calhourn County, illinois.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - 1940 Census / Family Trees, http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/archive/index.php?t-5429.html, www.fold3.com - WWII Draft Card

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, The Pepper Family, Debbie Pepper, Ben Savelkoul, Shellee Fecht