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Name: Robert Edward English
Sex: M
Birth: ABT 1924
Death: 28 AUG 1944 in France (over) ³
Person Id: I5731
Tree Id: 116637

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Parents

Father:

Robert Dean English: Birth: 8 NOV 1889 in Delmar Twp., Tioga Co., PA. Death: 9 JUL 1968 in Wellsboro, Delmar Twp., Tioga Co., PA

Mother:

Elizabeth Dwyer: Birth: 13 APR 1888 in Fall Brook, Ward Twp., Tioga Co., PA. Death: 26 JUL 1966 in Wellsboro, Delmar Twp., Tioga Co., PA

Sources

1.	Title: Wellsboro Agitator Page: Apr 5, 1944, p1
2.	Title: Wellsboro Gazette Wellsboro, Tioga Co., PA Page: Mar 19, 1942, p3
3.	Title: Wellsboro Gazette Wellsboro, Tioga Co., PA Page: Nov 30, 1941, p5

Notes

Note: Wellsboro Gazette of Nov. 30, 1944, p2 has: Receives Purple Heart The Purple Heart was awarded posthumously on Oct. 26 to Lt. Robert Edward English, who died Aug. 28 in action over Prance. The citation and medal were received last week by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. D. English. Lt. English enlisted in the Air Force on Dec. 12.. 1941. and was graduated from Boca Raton as a Flight Officer in January, 1944. In May he was commissioned a second lieutenant, retroactive to January. Early in June he went overseas, where he was a member of the crew of a P-61. He has two brothers in service, 1st. Lt. John D. English, in France and A. C. James D. English at Maxwell Field, Alabama.

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