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Personal info

Full name
COTTON, Marion F
Date of birth
10 May 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Maple Hill, Wabaunsee County, Kansas
Hometown
Pulaski County, Arkansas

Military service

Service number
6938230
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
379th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
15 November 1944
Place of death
France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
J 43 19

Immediate family

Members
Tomas B. Cotton (father)
Anna C. (Wax) Cotton (mother)
Lucy L. Cotton (sister)
Edna M. Cotton (sister)
Frances Cotton (sister)
Opal Cotton (sister)
William H. Cotton (brother)
Serepta J. Cotton (sister)
Ida R. Cotton (sister)
Clarence Cotton (brother)

More information

Pfc Marion F. Cotton joined the Regular Army on 26 December 1939.

He was first buried at Temporary American Military Cemetery 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 / 1930 Census / Rhonda Winklepleck Family Tree, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php
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