PVT Melvin Arthur Buford Veteran

Birth: 7 Aug 1921
Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kansas, USA
Death: 3 Aug 1944 (aged 22)
Papua New Guinea
Burial: Fort Scott National Cemetery

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Plot: 2, 0, 1772
Memorial ID: 434499 View Source

Son of George Arthur Buford and Mabel Jane Parker.

Private, Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 43rd Infantry Division

Returned from USAF Cemetery, Finschaffen, Papua, New Guinea and buried April 23, 1949.

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1903–1967

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