- SURNAME
Brauer
- FORENAME
Eldort Adolf
- UNIT
1 Ranger Bn (Company F)
- RANK
Private
- NUMBER
31277178
- DATE OF DEATH
10th July 1943
- AGE
21
- GRAVESITE
Rose Hill Memorial Park, Rocky hill, Hartford County, Connecticut
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from Cromwell, Middlesex County, Connecticut
born 26.05.1922, Cromwell, Connecticut, USA
father Edward Gustave Brauer (1897-1981)
mother Julianna (nee Hamann) Brauer (1893-1977)
single without dependents upon enlistment
grammar school education
civil occupation - Retail managers
06.01.1943 married Anne Frances (nee Niziul) Brauer
2 children
30.12.1942 enlisted Middlesex, Connecticut
KIA Sicily
Private Eldort A. Brauer was a Ranger with Company E of the 1st Ranger Battalion. He drowned during the amphibious landings at Gela (Sicily) on 10 July 1943. His body washed ashore. He was first buried in a fieldgrave behind the invasion beach and reburied in the temporary American GELA Cemetery in plot-grave A-11-131, date of burial was 27 July 1943. After the war his remains were repatriated and buried in the Rosehill Cemetery in Rocky Hill, Connecticut.
DATE OF DEATH:
10-Jul-1943FINDAGRAVE:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113559934/eldort-a-brauer
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