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Personal info

Full name
HOLMES, Gerald Buckley
Date of birth
1912
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Missouri
Hometown
Pierce County, Washington

Military service

Service number
39214422
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
H Company,
2nd Battalion,
377th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

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

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 15 56

Immediate family

Members
Lucille M. (Henley) Holmes (mother)
Mona G. (Lewis) Holmes (wife)
James P. Holmes (son)
William R. Holmes (son)

More information

Pvt Gerald B. Holmes enlisted in Seattle, Washington on 15 September 1943.

He attended high school for 1 year and was a driver before he enlisted.

He was first buried at Temporary American Military Cemetery Andilly, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com - A Grateful American, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Carrie H George Nichols Family Tree, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php
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