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Personal info

Full name
CAVERT, Peterson "Pete"
Date of birth
27 April 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
Hometown
Davidson County, Tennessee

Military service

Service number
O1322520
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
Platoon Commander
Unit
I Company,
3rd Battalion,
377th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
10 November 1944
Place of death
Mazieres-les-Metz, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 21 104

Immediate family

Members
Tillman Cavert (father)
Florence A. (Peterson) Cavert (mother)
Florence Cavert (sister)
Grace Cavert (sister)
Albert Cavert (brother)
Margaret Cavert (sister)
Tillman Cavert (brother)
Elizabeth (Overton) Cavert (wife)

More information

2nd Lt Peterson Cavert enlisted at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia on 19 September 1942. Member of an infantry outfit serving with Gen. George Patton's Third Army, Lieutenant Cavert had been transferred from an antitank division tot he infantry. A native of Nashville, he was educated at Webb School, Bell Buckle, and at Davidson College, Davidson, N.C.
He was an elevator operator before he enlisted.
He was first buried at Temporary American Military Cemetery Limey, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Astrid van Erp, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com - E. Bauer, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / John and Rachel Family Tree / 1930 Census, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php, www.newspapers.com - The Tennessean

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Holly Berry, www.newspapers.com - The Tennessean, www.ancestry.com - Davidson College Yearbook 1942, Nashville Banner - 28 November 1944 / 9 December 1944