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Personal info

Full name
CRUM, James Calvin "Jimmy"
Date of birth
23 August 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Stewartsville, DeKalb County, Missouri
Hometown
Stewartsville, DeKalb County, Missouri

Military service

Service number
37532163
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
B Battery,
359th Field Artillery Battalion,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
13 February 1945
Place of death
Near Honsdorf, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
C 2 9

Immediate family

Members
James A. Crum (father)
Grace Crum (mother)
Fern Crum (sister)
Lila P. Crum (sister)
Thomas Crum (brother)

More information

Pvt James C. Crum graduated from Stewartsville High School in 1943 and enlisted in July of the same year.

He was initially buried in a temporary grave at Margraten on 15 February 1945 and was given his final resting place on 6 January 1949.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - 1940 Census, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/compositiongb.htm, IDPF, Stewartsville News - 1 March 1945

Photo source: Des Philippet, www.findagrave.com, DeKalb County Historical Society - Sharon Martin, Stewartsville High School - 1943