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Personal info

Full name
HESTER, Charles Antney
Date of birth
15 November 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Colorado
Hometown
Linn County, Oregon

Military service

Service number
39336686
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
513th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
17th Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
4 January 1945
Place of death
Near Flamierge, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
I 1 23

Immediate family

Members
Charles A. Hester (father)
Mary C. (Streeter) Hester (mother)
Annie E. Hester (sister)
Frank R. Hester (brother)
Helen J. Hester (sister)
Ronald J. Hester (brother)

More information

Pfc Charles A. Hester enlisted in Portland, Oregon on 21 July 1943.

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

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, Family Trees, www.newspapers.com, http://www.ww2-airborne.us
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Dominique Portier / James Burke