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Personal info

Full name
TAYLOR, Hendrix Clyde
Date of birth
2 June 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Elizabethton, Carter County, Tennessee
Hometown
Elizabethton, Carter County, Tennessee

Military service

Service number
34497575
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
K Company,
3rd Battalion,
137th Infantry Regiment,
35th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
20 October 1944
Place of death
Jallaucourt, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
J 41 34

Immediate family

Members
John A. Taylor (father)
Nancy E. (Grindstaff) Taylor (mother)
Euell G. Taylor (brother)
Carl V. Taylor (brother)
June W. (Lowe) Taylor (wife)

More information

Pfc Hendrix C. Taylor was employed at the American Bemberg Corporation before he enlisted at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia on 2 December 1942.
He was killed by artillery shell fragments.
He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Limey, 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 / Grindstaff Family Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, After Action Report 35th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com – Eric Ackerman
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