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Pvt Robert E. Russell

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Pvt Robert E. Russell

Birth
Clarke County, Virginia, USA
Death
12 Oct 1918 (aged 31)
France
Burial
Berryville, Clarke County, Virginia, USA Add to Map
Memorial ID
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Private Russell was killed in action in the First World War during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. He served in Company C, 128th Infantry Regiment, 32nd "Red Arrow" Division, U.S. Army.

Rank, unit, manner of death, and hometown per the Roll of Honor on the 32nd Division Veterans Association website and the Virginia section found within Volume 3 of the three-volume compiled memorial set, Soldiers of the Great War, published in 1920.

Date of birth, January 19, 1887, per Private Russell's WWI Draft Registration Card, which he filled out in June 1917. The 1900 Federal Census, which recorded only month and year of birth, shows his date of birth as January, 1887.
Private Russell was killed in action in the First World War during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. He served in Company C, 128th Infantry Regiment, 32nd "Red Arrow" Division, U.S. Army.

Rank, unit, manner of death, and hometown per the Roll of Honor on the 32nd Division Veterans Association website and the Virginia section found within Volume 3 of the three-volume compiled memorial set, Soldiers of the Great War, published in 1920.

Date of birth, January 19, 1887, per Private Russell's WWI Draft Registration Card, which he filled out in June 1917. The 1900 Federal Census, which recorded only month and year of birth, shows his date of birth as January, 1887.

Inscription

Robert E. Russell
Killed in Action
Oct. 12, 1918
Aged 32

Gravesite Details

Age of death, 32, on headstone base is an error as he would have been 31 at the time of his death.



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