US PARAS Brewer, Robert Rice

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Brewer ​

• FORENAME

Robert Rice​

• UNIT

508 Parachute Infantry Regiment ​

• RANK

Staff Sergeant ​

• NUMBER

14163552 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

8th February 1945 ​

• AGE

24​

• GRAVESITE

Netherlands American Cemetery, Margraten, Netherlands Tablets of the Missing ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

from Jefferson County, Alabama​

born 29.09.1920 Birmingham, Alabama, USA​

father Frank Grover Brewer, Sr. (1892-1957)​

mother Nina (nee Rice) Brewer (1891-1979)​

4 years college​

employed by Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Lee County, Alabama​

single without dependents upon enlistment​

resided 708 77th Way South, Birmingham, Alabama (draft card)​

14.02.1942 draft card Birmingham, Alabama​

10.10.1942 entered service Fort McClellan, Alabama​

POW 11.6.1944 Normandy​

Stalag III-C, Kustrin, Germany (now Poland)​

seriously wounded when Germans bombed camp after liberation by Russians​

declared dead 15.1.1946 as of 8.2.1945 (probable date) (prison hospital)​

award Bronze Star ​

Forest Hill Cemetery, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. Section 19 (Memorial)​

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