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Personal info

Full name
SUMTER, Melvin Lawrence
Date of birth
4 February 1909
Age
36
Place of birth
Claremore, Rogers County, Oklahoma
Hometown
Claremore, Rogers County, Oklahoma
Ethnicity
White

Military service

Service number
38589600
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
F Company,
301st Infantry Regiment,
94th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
7 February 1945
Place of death
Banholz Woods, north of Sinz, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
C 5 34

Immediate family

Members
Robert T. Sumter (father)
Nettie M. (Coppinger) Sumter (mother)
William T. Sumter (brother)
Walter E. Sumter (brother)
Oscar S. Sumter (brother)
Mary V. (Cobb) Sumter (sister)
Odia Sumter (brother)
Clyde Sumter (brother)
Jessie V. (Crume) Sumter (sister)
Ruby L. Sumter (sister)
Abraham C. Sumter (brother)
Odea Sumter (sister)
Oscar R. Sumter (brother)
Mary I. (Beeler) Sumter (wife)
Melvin Sumter (son)
Sharon C. Sumter (daughter)

More information

Pvt Melvin L. Sumter enlisted on 7 September 1943.

His remains were recovered on 13 June 1950.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com - National Archives / ABMC Cemeteries, www.findagrave.com - wesnconnie, http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/contents/v024toc.html,
www.ancestry.com - Linz/Sumter family tree (wesnconnie1), 1910/1920/1940 Census US / U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil

Photo source: Peter Schouteten

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