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Personal info

Full name
BARTH, Richard Patrick
Date of birth
10 February 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Hometown
Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
35060835
Rank
Corporal
Function
unknown
Unit
274th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
Awards
Silver Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
24 September 1944
Place of death
France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 26 76

Immediate family

Members
Peter J. Barth (father)
Katherine D. (Hart) Barth (mother)
Lavy Barth (brother)
Mary E. Barth (sister)
William J. Barth (brother)
Lawrence D. Barth (brother)
John P. Barth (brother)
Kathleen D. Barth (sister)
Patricia A. Barth (sister)
Robert J. Barth (brother)

More information

Cpl Richard P. Barth attended West Technical High School and was employed at General Motors.

He enlisted in Cleveland, Ohio on 24 April 1943.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments to the chest.

Cpl Barth was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Andilly, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com - Christopher P. Morris, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Barth Family Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card
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