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Personal info

Full name
COPENHAVER, Charles Cleveland
Date of birth
23 June 1918
Age
26
Place of birth
Villa Grove, Douglas County, Illinois
Hometown
Cook County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
36909719
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
E Company,
2nd Battalion,
273rd Infantry Regiment,
69th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
1 March 1945
Place of death
Rescheid, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
D 13 63

Immediate family

Members
Grover Copenhaver (father)
Louis Copenhaver (mother)
Opal Copenhaver (sister)
Ruth Copenhaver (sister)
Glenn Copenhaver (brother)
Ezekiel Coperhaver (brother)
Haskell Coperhaver (brother)
Roscoe Coperhaver (brother)
Josephine Coperhaver (sister)
Evalena Coperhaver (wife)
Jacqueline Coperhaver (daughter)
Marvella Coperhaver (daughter)
Charles Coperhaver (son)

More information

Pvt Charles C. Coperhaver was employed by the Kuehne Manufacturing Company in Mattoon.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Carla Mans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.69th-infantry-division.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1940 Census / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, www.newspapers.com - Journal Gazette Illinois 16 March 1945

Photo source: Siem Voogt