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Personal info

Full name
HANWELL, Robert Henry
Date of birth
17 August 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Depew, Erie County, New York
Hometown
Depew, Erie County, New York

Military service

Service number
42091478
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
104th Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
22 November 1944
Place of death
Southeast of Albestroff, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 34 2

Immediate family

Members
William O. Hanwell (father)
Marian M. (Butler) Hanwell (mother)
Faye Hanwell (sister)

More information

Pvt Robert H. Hanwell attended high school for four years and was employed at the Quaker Oats Company before he enlisted in Buffalo, New York on 27 December 1943.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments to his buttock and hip.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Hanwell Family Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com – Russ Pickett, After Action Report 26th Infantry

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy