- SURNAME
Benton
- FORENAME
Daniel Roger ("Dan")
- UNIT
508 Parachute Infantry Regiment (HQ Company 1 Bn)
- RANK
Staff Sergeant
- NUMBER
6941082
- DATE OF DEATH
15th June 1944
- AGE
23
- GRAVESITE
Concordia Lutheran Cemetery, Columbia, Pennsylvania, USA
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from Columbia County, Pennsylvania
rank "Private" (National Archives)
born 21.07.1920 Columbus, Georgia, USA
mother Lydia Pearl (nee Gray) Bigler (1903-1970)
wife Dorothy Benton of Holly Hill, South Carolina
daughter Marvis Linda
4 years high school
civil occupation Tinsmiths, coppersmiths and sheet metal workers
employed by Little Prince Co. Columbia, Pennsylvania
16.10.1940 draft card Columbia, Pennsylvania
03.03.1941 re-entered service Fort Benning, Georgia
KIA Normandy
DATE OF DEATH:
15-Jun-1944FINDAGRAVE:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68260348/daniel-roger-benton
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