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Personal info

Full name
PERONE, Benjamin A
Date of birth
1919
Age
unknown
Place of birth
New Jersey
Hometown
Bound Brook, Somerset County, New Jersey

Military service

Service number
32558995
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
K 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
B 28 50

Immediate family

Members
Benjamin Perone (father)
Concetta Perone (mother)
Nicholas Perone (brother)
John Perone (brother)
Mary Perone (sister)
Dominick Perone (brother)
Ralph Perone (brother)
Charles Perone (brother)
Anne (Banco) Perone (wife)

More information

Pfc Benjamin A. Perone enlisted in Newark, New Jersey on 26 September 1942. He attended Bound Brooks schools and was employed by the Bound Brook Oil-less Bearing Company in civilian life. He and the former Miss Banco of Somerville were married in the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Somerville on Easter Sunday. Pfc Perone, who had been overseas about two and a half months, was attached to the 95th Division of Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army.

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 - A Grateful American, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Perone Family Tree / 1930 Census, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php, www.newspapers.com - The Courier-News

Photo source: Peter Schouteten