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Robert B. Vaughn
∗ 22-04-1913 Anson County, NC, USA † 15-09-1944 Terblijt (31)
- Old Hickory - Valkenburg -
- findagrave.com
- Valkenburg 80 jaar bevrijd, VIII – We Do Remember, p.145-146
- OpenStreetMap
1. Gulledge Road near Morven, Anson County, North Carolina
2. Lindenstraat, Terblijt
3. Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial - More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg
Staff Sergeant Robert Belk Vaughn, 30th Inf. Div., 117th Inf. Reg., 3rd Battalion, M Comp. + photo. [1]
The following text is taken from the book Valkenburg 80 jaar bevrijd (Valkenburg 80 Years Liberated) [2]
Robert was born April 22, 1918 in Gulledge, a hamlet near Morven [3] Anson County, North Carolina and was the second son of Evan Benjamin Vaughn and Lenie Allen. He had three brothers, was unmarried and enlisted at Fort Bragg NC on February 12, 1942. He attended high school and worked in a textile mill. On September 15, 1944, he was killed on Lindenstraat in Terblijt. [3.2]
Via England, he landed in Normandy in June 1944, and via France and Belgium, after participating in the liberation of Maastricht, he finally came to Terblijt, where his Company camped in the orchard behind a farm on Lindenstraat.
On September 15 he was mortally wounded by a shrapnel in his back. The marl facade of the farmhouse still shows the effects of the shell hit.
Residents of Terblijt told the story of a little boy who was playing in the street at the time of a grenade attack. A soldier grabbed him and pushed him into a ditch next to the road when he heard the shells coming. Afterwards, the boy walked home unharmed, where he told his parents what had happened.
Who was this soldier, who saved this little boy’s life and in the process perhaps was killed himself? This can no longer be ascertained. Robert was buried on Sept. 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the American military cemetery Fosses-la-Ville near Namur. When this cemetery closed in July 1948, his father had to choose either to repatriate his son to the U.S. or a re-burial in the military cemetery at Henri-Chapelle. This must have been a very difficult decision for father Evan, especially since his son George, who served with the 587st SAW Bn Co D, died in the Philippines on April 15, 1945. His name is on the wall of missing persons at the military cemetery in Manila. Eventually, the father decided to have Robert buried in Henri-Chapelle, where he found his final resting place on Nov. 23, 1948. Plot G, Row 8, Grave 12.
Open Street Map. [3]
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