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Personal info

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

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 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