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Personal info

Full name
OSBORNE, Claude D
Date of birth
16 August 1910
Age
34
Place of birth
Alabama
Hometown
Muscogee County, Georgia

Military service

Service number
6927671
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
135th Engineer Combat Battalion
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
20 January 1945
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 7 60

Immediate family

Members
James W. Osborne (father)
Myrtle Osborne (sister)
Horace P. Osborne (brother)
Curtis D. Osborne (brother)
Ernest Osborne (brother)
James W. Osborne (brother)
Cecil D. Osborne (brother)
Tula Osborne (sister)
Minnie Osborne (sister)

More information

PFC Claude D. Osborne was a construction painter before he joined the Regular Army at Fort Benning, Georgia on 7 August 1940.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments to his head.

He is remembered at the Riverdale Cemetery in Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card, www.findagrave.com - Coleman / Eric Ackerman, www.newspapers.com - Ledger Enquirer - 5 February 1945
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery / Christine Tacker, www.newspapers.com - Ledger Enquirer - 5 February 1945