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Personal info

Full name
STAUDER, Donald Otto
Date of birth
14 August 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Campbell County, Kentucky
Hometown
Norwood, Hamilton County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
35805171
Rank
Private
Function
Heavy Machine Gunner
Unit
L Company,
3rd Battalion,
116th Infantry Regiment,
29th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
24 November 1944
Place of death
Koslar, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
J 12 19

Immediate family

Members
William F. Stauder (father)
Elsie M. (Bringmann) Stauder (mother)
William F. Stauder (brother)
Violet M. (Kinzel) Stauder (wife)

More information

Pvt Donald Stauder graduated from Norwood High School and was employed at the Wright Plant in Lockland.

He enlisted at Cincinnati, Ohio on 24 June 1943. He was sent overseas in February 1944 and joined his unit from a Replacement Depot on 27 October 1944.

He was initially buried in a temporary grave at Margraten on 28 November 1944. After the cemetery was given a permanent status and after he was disinterred, Pvt Stauder was given his final resting place on 8 April 1949.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.newspapers.com - The Cincinnati Enquirer

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, www.ancestry.com - Norwood High School Yearbook 1942, www.newspapers.com - The Cincinnati Enquirer