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Personal info

Full name
STUART, Robert Walter
Date of birth
29 June 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
11132079
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
302nd Infantry Regiment,
94th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
5 February 1945
Place of death
Campholz Woods, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
G 11 25

Immediate family

Members
John J. D. Stuart (father)
Marie C. (Walter) Stuart (mother)
John A. Stuart (brother)
Richard D. Stuart (brother)
Paul A. Stuart (brother)

More information

S/Sgt Robert W. Stuart graduated from Watertown High School in 1943 and worked as a night desk copy boy at the Boston Globe newspaper.

He joined the Regular Army in Boston, Massachusetts on 28 May 1943. He was sent overseas in August, 1944.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record, http://www.94thinfdiv.com

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - nepper, The Boston Globe - 19 July 1943