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Personal info

Full name
POWELL, Orville Rex
Date of birth
15 December 1924
Age
19
Place of birth
Leverett, Coffee County, Alabama
Hometown
Ocoee, Orange County, Florida

Military service

Service number
34788643
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
313th Infantry Regiment,
79th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
2 October 1944
Place of death
Forêt de Parroy, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 25 44

Immediate family

Members
Clifford O. Powell (father)
Mary F. (Bowdoin) Powell (mother)
Mary A. Powell (sister)
Sarah A. Powell (sister)
Coy C. Powell (brother)
Lillian M. Powell (sister)
Rudolph D. Powell (brother)
Samuel B. Powell (brother)
Lydia M. Powell (sister)
Omah Powell (sister)
Lorrane Powell (sister)
Joy E. Powell (brother)
Roland E. Powell (brother)
Nanny Powell (sister)
Jo Ann Powell (sister)

More information

Pvt Orville R. Powell worked on a farm before he enlisted at Camp Blanding, Florida on 26 June 1943.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in his face.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Andilly, France.

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 / The Live Oak Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files / 1940 Census, Combat History 79th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com – Roland Powell

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Ang Nelson, www.ancestry.com - sweetjo