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Personal info

Full name
BREWER, Raymond O
Date of birth
1925
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Tennessee
Hometown
Benton County, Tennessee

Military service

Service number
34984366
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
A Company,
19th Armored Infantry Battalion,
14th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
20 January 1945
Place of death
Landau in der Pfalz, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
F 10 38

Immediate family

Members
John S. Brewer (father)
Johnnie A. (Lowry) Brewer (mother)
Roy Brewer (brother)
Christine Brewer (sister)
Willis R. Brewer (brother)

More information

Pvt Raymond O. Brewer worked on a farm before he enlisted at Camp Shelby, Mississippi on 24 March 1944.
He was taken prisoner of war and died of a shell-splinter wound in the stomach in the German Feldlazarett N° 27566, that was stationed in the vicnity of Landau in der Pfalz, Germany. According to German records, Pvt Brewer died on 17 January 1945 at 14.30 hrs. He was initially buried at the Garrison Cemetery of Landau in der Pfalz on 22 January 1945.
He is remembered at the Lowry Cemetery in Big Sandy, Benton County, Tennessee.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record / WWII Prisoners of War Data File, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Judith Ann Bales Family Tree / 1940 Census, www.findagrave.com - Redbirdintheyard, http://14thad.org / https://catalog.archives.gov/id/18238601 - page 251 and 253

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Ronnie Smothers