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Personal info

Full name
WARREN, Charles William
Date of birth
15 September 1915
Age
29
Place of birth
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah
Hometown
Stanislaus County, California

Military service

Service number
39414886
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
In the vicinity of the Julia Mine, Eygelshoven, The Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
C 9 18

Immediate family

Members
George E. Warren (father)
Sadie A. (Wright) Warren (mother)
Anna E. (DeWitt) Warren (wife)

More information

T/5 Charles W. Warren graduated from Modesto High School and worked on his farm.

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

T/5 Warren is 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 - 1930 Census / Family Tree, http://forum.12oclockhigh.net, The Modesto Bee - 7 October 1938

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, www.ancestry.com - Ann Wright, Ben Savelkoul