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Personal info

Full name
PARKER, Bernard Elwood
Date of birth
5 November 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Moosic, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Buffalo, Erie County, New York

Military service

Service number
32842140
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
3rd Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized),
F Company
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
21 November 1944
Place of death
Borg, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 23 89

Immediate family

Members
James C. Parker (father)
Mary E. (Decker) Parker (mother)
James H. Parker (brother)
Loretta I. Parker (sister)
George R. Parker (brother)
Harry W. Parker (brother)
Donald F. Parker (brother)
Edwin A. Parker (brother)
Joseph P. Parker (brother)

More information

Pfc Bernard E. Parker was employed at the Buffalo Pottery Manufacturing Company before he enlisted in Buffalo, New York on 10 March 1943.

He was killed by small arms fire in his chest.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Limey, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Cook Family Tree / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com - Russ Pickett
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