Robert M. Gray |
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(June 22, 1945) - The War department has informed Mr. and Mrs. E.A. Gray of Mapes avenue of the death of their son Pfc. Robert M. Gray, a prisoner of war of the Germans, April 19 somewhere in the European area.
On Jan. 8 in action
near Phillipsbourg, France, he was captured and sent as a prisoner of war to
Stalag 1X-B at Bad Orb. Shortly after that letter was written, he was sent out with a labor battalion and all contact was lost. Nothing has been heard from him since the letter was received.
A longer biography appears in
From The Nutley Sun, June 22, 1945 LOCAL POW DEAD PARENTS ARE TOLD American Battle Monuments Commission American Legion Post 70 Memorial National World War II Memorial
Read Bad Orb survivor Harry Bell's account in Forgotten Heroes of World War II - Personal Accounts of Ordinary Soldiers by Thomas E. Simmons |
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