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Personal info

Full name
WEDDING, Robert Cullen
Date of birth
21 August 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Connersville, Fayette County, Indiana
Hometown
Connersville, Fayette County, Indiana

Military service

Service number
35505918
Rank
Technician Fifth Grade
Function
unknown
Unit
242nd Infantry Regiment,
42nd Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
9 January 1945
Place of death
Hatten, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
K 16 29

Immediate family

Members
John W. Wedding (father)
Eva M. (Weaver) Wedding (mother)
Mary V. Wedding (sister)
Ino Wedding (brother)
Clyde C. Wedding (brother)
William E. Wedding (brother)
Erma (Renschler) Wedding (wife)
Carroll G. Wedding (son)

More information

T/5 Robert C. Wedding attended high school for one year and was a carpenter before he enlisted at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana on 7 August 1942. He was sent overseas in November 1944.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Harpring Hartman Family Tree / 1920 Census / Indiana Marriages, www.findagrave.com, www.newspapers.com – Palladium Item 28 February 1945

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