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Personal info

Full name
KOUMA, Raymond
Date of birth
1922
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Nebraska
Hometown
Lancaster County, Nebraska

Military service

Service number
37450800
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
I Company,
3rd Battalion,
377th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

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

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
J 26 19

Immediate family

Members
Frank Kouma (father)
Albina (Sobotka) Kouma (mother)
Ernest V. Kouma (brother)
Leonard L. Kouma (brother)
Robert L. Kouma (brother)
Betty Kouma (sister)

More information

Raymond Kouma enlisted in August 1942 and was promoted in November 1942 to the rank of corporal while he was at Camp Swift, Texas. He was sent overseas in July 1944.

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

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Astrid van Erp, www.abmc.gov, www.findagrave.com, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Matulka Family Tree / 1940 Census, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php, www.newspapers.com - The Lincoln Star
Photo source: -, www.newspapers.com - The Lincoln Star