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Personal info

Full name
BROWN, Beuford Coolidge
Date of birth
10 November 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Round Peak, Surry County, North Carolina
Hometown
Mount Airy, Surry County, North Carolina

Military service

Service number
44016202
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
M Company,
3rd Battalion,
302nd Infantry Regiment,
94th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
8 March 1945
Place of death
Oberleuken, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
K 14 19

Immediate family

Members
John W. E. Brown (father)
Lula R. (Wood) Brown (mother)
Beulah R. Brown (sister)
Emma E. Brown (wife)

More information

Pfc Beuford C. Brown attended high school for four years and worked on a farm before he enlisted at Camp Croft, South Carolina on 29 August 1944.

He is mentioned on a memorial in Oberleuken, Germany.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Edward Steele Family Tree / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, www.findagrave.com, http://www.94thinfdiv.com, http://www.uswarmemorials.org/html/site_details.php?SiteID=468

Photo source:
www.uswarmemorials.org