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Personal info

Full name
KITCHEN, Robert Hower
Date of birth
5 March 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Columbia County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Columbia County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33851417
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
1st Battalion,
377th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

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

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 9 42

Immediate family

Members
Warren H. Kitchen (father)
Laura (McKloskey) Kitchen (mother)
Ruth Kitchen (sister)
Raymond Kitchen (brother)
Rudolph Kitchen (brother)
Renna Kitchen (sister)

More information

Pvt Robert H. Kitchen enlisted at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland on 4 April 1944. He was sent overseas in April 1944.

He attended high school for 4 years and worked on a farm.

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

Pvt Kitchen is remembered at New Rosemont Cemetery in Espy, Columbia County, Pennsylvania with a memorial marker.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1940 Census / Pennsylvania, Veterans Burial Cards, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery