Missing information?
Do you have any additional information you would like to share about a soldier?
Submit- Full
name
HEMPELMAN, Robert Maurice - Date of
birth
24 August 1921 -
Age
23 -
Place of birth
Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio -
Hometown
Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio
Personal info
Military service
- Service
number
35666815 -
Rank
Corporal -
Function
unknown -
Unit
630th Tank Destroyer Battalion
-
Awards
Purple Heart
Death
-
Status
Killed in Action - Date of
death
25 December 1944 - Place of
death
Bitburg, Germany
Grave
-
Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg - Tablets of the Missing
Immediate family
-
Members
Maurice G. Hempelman (father)
Philomina H. (Hericks) Hempelman (mother)
Jeanne Hempelman (sister)
Marjorie Hempelman (sister)
Elizabeth J. (Statler) Hempelman (wife)
More information
Cpl Robert M. Hempelman graduated from Elder High School in 1939. He was a stock clerk before he enlisted in Cincinnati, Ohio on 19 October 1942.
Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency / Gregory Thomas Hartke Family Tree, www.tankdestroyer.net, www.findagrave.com - MAJ Jimmy Cotton
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, U.S. School Yearbooks, Cincinnati, Ohio