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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 21886" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Benton </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Daniel Roger ("Dan")</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>508 Parachute Infantry Regiment (HQ Company 1 Bn) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Staff Sergeant </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>6941082 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>DATE OF DEATH</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>15th June 1944 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AGE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>23</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>GRAVESITE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Concordia Lutheran Cemetery, Columbia, Pennsylvania, USA</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>from Columbia County, Pennsylvania</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>rank "Private" (National Archives)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 21.07.1920 Columbus, Georgia, USA</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>mother Lydia Pearl (nee Gray) Bigler (1903-1970)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>wife Dorothy Benton of Holly Hill, South Carolina</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>daughter Marvis Linda</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>4 years high school</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>civil occupation Tinsmiths, coppersmiths and sheet metal workers</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>employed by Little Prince Co. Columbia, Pennsylvania</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>16.10.1940 draft card Columbia, Pennsylvania</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>03.03.1941 re-entered service Fort Benning, Georgia</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>KIA Normandy </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/d-benton.39683/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/custom_thumbnail/39/39683-811335f7e1627b98fed7c697778443bb.jpg?1703885221" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/d-benton.39396/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/custom_thumbnail/39/39396-44270ef386e3080d258c98324676dc37.jpg?1698348362" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/d-benton-grave.39684/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/39/39684-8e56fdc3bf591dfc4b147a1167d96d79.jpg?1703885257" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
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