US Army • Private First Class •Baker Company, 9th Armored Infantry Battalion, 6th Armored Division • Service # 35596839 • b. 23 Oct 1922• Attended Findley Elementary School • Son of Arthur Clarence Brown (1887 – 1973) and Hazel B Donaldson Brown (1893 – 1987); brothers: Paul W Brown (1920 - ), and Joseph H Brown (1925 - ); sisters: Helen P Brown (1918 - ), Joanna M Brown (1925 - ), Hazel Kathryn Brown Riggle (1926 – 1999), Mina E Brown (1929 - ), Mary Brown (1932 - ) • Killed In Action 26 November 1944 in France • Buried at the Lorraine American Cemetery St.. Avold, France Plot J Row 21 Grave 14
David Schember (46842917)
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The Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio) - 17 Dec 1944, Sun Main Edition - Together they had slogged through France's mud, keeping up each other's spirits with a wisecrack and a smile. Together they had trained in tanks until they were experts. And together they found themselves in a "replacement pool" ready to be sent to the front in mid-November. "Ray's a grand guy." Wrote PFC Robert A Brown to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Brown, over and over again. "Bob's a grand pal, "wrote Ray Beacham to his parents Mr. and Mrs. Sam Beacham, who moved recently from 2104 Seventh St., Cuyahoga Falls only a couple of miles from where the Browns lived.
Then on November 25, as if keeping a pact with each other, the two friends died on a French battlefield. They did not fall side by side but their deaths were so close that the two telegrams arrived almost simultaneously.
In a last letter home Nov. 21., Brown said, "I have been assigned to an armored infantry division. All is well. Don't worry about me, Ray is with me." About the same time in his last letter home, Ray Beacham even more serious wrote, "God bless you all. May we always remember the power of prayer and its need." The Beachams news of their son's death was a second blow within two years. The first came when another son, PVT Robert Beacham, was announced as "missing in action" following a battle in North Africa in February, 1943. "Robert went overseas with but one aim and that was to be able to prevent his brother, Ray, from going into action if possible." Mrs. Beacham recalled today. Later the older son was declared a prisioner of war of the Germans. A third son, Donald, is just about to enter the service. A daughter, Arlene, is at home.
Andy (48021049)
David Schember (46842917)
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The Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio) - 17 Dec 1944, Sun Main Edition - Together they had slogged through France's mud, keeping up each other's spirits with a wisecrack and a smile. Together they had trained in tanks until they were experts. And together they found themselves in a "replacement pool" ready to be sent to the front in mid-November. "Ray's a grand guy." Wrote PFC Robert A Brown to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Brown, over and over again. "Bob's a grand pal, "wrote Ray Beacham to his parents Mr. and Mrs. Sam Beacham, who moved recently from 2104 Seventh St., Cuyahoga Falls only a couple of miles from where the Browns lived.
Then on November 25, as if keeping a pact with each other, the two friends died on a French battlefield. They did not fall side by side but their deaths were so close that the two telegrams arrived almost simultaneously.
In a last letter home Nov. 21., Brown said, "I have been assigned to an armored infantry division. All is well. Don't worry about me, Ray is with me." About the same time in his last letter home, Ray Beacham even more serious wrote, "God bless you all. May we always remember the power of prayer and its need." The Beachams news of their son's death was a second blow within two years. The first came when another son, PVT Robert Beacham, was announced as "missing in action" following a battle in North Africa in February, 1943. "Robert went overseas with but one aim and that was to be able to prevent his brother, Ray, from going into action if possible." Mrs. Beacham recalled today. Later the older son was declared a prisioner of war of the Germans. A third son, Donald, is just about to enter the service. A daughter, Arlene, is at home.
Andy (48021049)
US Army • Private First Class •Baker Company, 9th Armored Infantry Battalion, 6th Armored Division • Service # 35596839 • b. 23 Oct 1922• Attended Findley Elementary School • Son of Arthur Clarence Brown (1887 – 1973) and Hazel B Donaldson Brown (1893 – 1987); brothers: Paul W Brown (1920 - ), and Joseph H Brown (1925 - ); sisters: Helen P Brown (1918 - ), Joanna M Brown (1925 - ), Hazel Kathryn Brown Riggle (1926 – 1999), Mina E Brown (1929 - ), Mary Brown (1932 - ) • Killed In Action 26 November 1944 in France • Buried at the Lorraine American Cemetery St.. Avold, France Plot J Row 21 Grave 14
David Schember (46842917)
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The Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio) - 17 Dec 1944, Sun Main Edition - Together they had slogged through France's mud, keeping up each other's spirits with a wisecrack and a smile. Together they had trained in tanks until they were experts. And together they found themselves in a "replacement pool" ready to be sent to the front in mid-November. "Ray's a grand guy." Wrote PFC Robert A Brown to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Brown, over and over again. "Bob's a grand pal, "wrote Ray Beacham to his parents Mr. and Mrs. Sam Beacham, who moved recently from 2104 Seventh St., Cuyahoga Falls only a couple of miles from where the Browns lived.
Then on November 25, as if keeping a pact with each other, the two friends died on a French battlefield. They did not fall side by side but their deaths were so close that the two telegrams arrived almost simultaneously.
In a last letter home Nov. 21., Brown said, "I have been assigned to an armored infantry division. All is well. Don't worry about me, Ray is with me." About the same time in his last letter home, Ray Beacham even more serious wrote, "God bless you all. May we always remember the power of prayer and its need." The Beachams news of their son's death was a second blow within two years. The first came when another son, PVT Robert Beacham, was announced as "missing in action" following a battle in North Africa in February, 1943. "Robert went overseas with but one aim and that was to be able to prevent his brother, Ray, from going into action if possible." Mrs. Beacham recalled today. Later the older son was declared a prisioner of war of the Germans. A third son, Donald, is just about to enter the service. A daughter, Arlene, is at home.
Andy (48021049)
David Schember (46842917)
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The Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio) - 17 Dec 1944, Sun Main Edition - Together they had slogged through France's mud, keeping up each other's spirits with a wisecrack and a smile. Together they had trained in tanks until they were experts. And together they found themselves in a "replacement pool" ready to be sent to the front in mid-November. "Ray's a grand guy." Wrote PFC Robert A Brown to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Brown, over and over again. "Bob's a grand pal, "wrote Ray Beacham to his parents Mr. and Mrs. Sam Beacham, who moved recently from 2104 Seventh St., Cuyahoga Falls only a couple of miles from where the Browns lived.
Then on November 25, as if keeping a pact with each other, the two friends died on a French battlefield. They did not fall side by side but their deaths were so close that the two telegrams arrived almost simultaneously.
In a last letter home Nov. 21., Brown said, "I have been assigned to an armored infantry division. All is well. Don't worry about me, Ray is with me." About the same time in his last letter home, Ray Beacham even more serious wrote, "God bless you all. May we always remember the power of prayer and its need." The Beachams news of their son's death was a second blow within two years. The first came when another son, PVT Robert Beacham, was announced as "missing in action" following a battle in North Africa in February, 1943. "Robert went overseas with but one aim and that was to be able to prevent his brother, Ray, from going into action if possible." Mrs. Beacham recalled today. Later the older son was declared a prisioner of war of the Germans. A third son, Donald, is just about to enter the service. A daughter, Arlene, is at home.
Andy (48021049)
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