MERRILL'S MARAUDERS LaPierre, Raymond Rock

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

LaPierre​

• FORENAME

Raymond Rock​

• UNIT

• RANK

Private ​

• NUMBER

11108044​

• AWARD

Bronze Star, Purple Heart​

• PLACE

Burma 1944​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 14.5.1925 Southbridge, Massachusetts​

father Joseph R. LaPierre​

mother Aline (nee Trudeau)​

graduated Mary E. Wells High School​

graduated Nichols College, Webster​

enlisted 29.06.1943​

WIA 27.7.1944 Burma​

discharged 21.09.1945 (Private First Class)​

24.09.1945 draft card Southbridge, Massachusetts​

owner, United Bread Company, Southbridge (sold it later)​

National Park Service​

Independence National Park, Philadelphia​

Boston National Historic Park, Boston​

Alaska Regional Headquarters, Anchorage​

retired to Cape Cod 1987​

married Thelma M. Vantura (55 years) (2 daughters Michelle and Mona, 1 son Curtis)​

last residence Hyannis, Massachusetts​

died 27.12.2003 Hyannis, Massachusetts​

Massachusetts National Cemetery, Bourne, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Section 38 Site 135​

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[jeem]

this man's son Curtis was my boyhood friend we hunted and fished alot thanks to his dad, he had a truck camper and took us to the cape a lot duck hunting. I never knew he was in the war didn't talk about. he put us into a hunter safety course in oxford mass when I was 15. he loved the cape especially Nauset beach, it wasn't built up back then, late 60's