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Personal info

Full name
BOOE, Burley Robert
Date of birth
2 September 1914
Age
30
Place of birth
Davie County, North Carolina
Hometown
Elon, Alamance County, North Carolina

Military service

Service number
34968783
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
175th Infantry Regiment,
29th Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star

Death

Status
Died non-Battle
Date of death
6 May 1945
Place of death
Czechoslovakia

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Tablets of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Robert M. Booe (father)
Pearna L. (Reavis) Booe (mother)
Ina B. Booe (sister)
Nevada L. Booe (sister)
Naomi E. Booe (sister)
Shirley (Lowery) Booe (wife)
Bill Booe (son)
Kenneth Booe (son)

More information

Pvt Burley R. Booe attended high school for 4 years before he enlisted in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on April 6 1944.

He was taken prisoner of war November 26 1944 and died of malnutrition and pneumonia in a German prison hospital in Czechoslovakia.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - U.S. WWII Draft cords Young Men / Hunter Family Tree, www.findagrave.com

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Have Paws will travel, Patti Johnson