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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 24048" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Billman </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Lewis Richard</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>551 Parachute Infantry Bn (Company B) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Technician Fifth Class </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>35392487 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>DATE OF DEATH</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>21st August 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>Rhone American Cemetery, Draguignan, France Plot D Row 11 Grave 5 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>from Stark County, Ohio</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 12.06.1921 Dresden, Ohio, USA</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>father Gideon Dover Billman (1885-1959)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>mother Ruth E. (nee Whyde) Barry (1902-1996)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>wife Edna R. Weily (1921-2013)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>employed by Plastic Display, Canton, Ohio</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>15.02.1942 draft card Stark, Ohio</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Next of kin - Wife. Mrs. Edna R. Billman, 1426 West 19th Street, Lorain, Ohio</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>KIA South France </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>posthumous Bronze Star</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/l-billman.39809/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/39/39809-925ca473c655dff6ca602994f8367b30.jpg?1706268311" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/l-billman-grave.39808/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/39/39808-db5139c266f5d27c42739733935b9b12.jpg?1706268310" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
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