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Personal info

Full name
WELDON, Howard Chapman
Date of birth
6 July 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Lock Springs, Daviess County, Missouri
Hometown
Harrison, Daviess County, Missouri

Military service

Service number
37514891
Rank
Corporal
Function
unknown
Unit
48th Tank Battalion,
14th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
21 April 1945
Place of death
Near Beilngries, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
D 27 37

Immediate family

Members
Lloyd C. Weldon (father)
Helen C. (Hamilton) Weldon (mother)
Lloyd H. Weldon (brother)
Helen L. Weldon (sister)

More information

His brother, Lloyd H. Weldon, is remembered on the Tablets of the Missing at the American Military Cemetery at Cambridge.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Punch Family Tree / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, http://14thad.org
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