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<span class=prefix>S/Sgt.</span> Roger Sheridan Pancoast

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S/Sgt. Roger Sheridan Pancoast Veteran

Birth
Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, USA
Death
7 Aug 1944 (aged 26)
France
Burial
Saint-James, Departement de la Manche, Basse-Normandie, France Add to Map
Plot
Section K ~ Row 8 ~ Grave 9
Memorial ID
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Roger, who resided at 306 West Twenty-Eighth Street, Wilmington, Delaware, served as a Staff Sergeant with the 695th Armored Field Artillery Battalion, U.S. Army during World War II.

He enlisted in the Army on October 23, 1941, prior to the war, at Fort Dix, New Jersey. He was noted as being employed as a mechanic and also as being Single, without dependents at the time of his enlistment.

He was "Killed In Action" in France during the war.

He had served in the Army for two years and ten months at the time of his death and was decorated with a Purple Heart.

Service # 32186430

Son of Roger C. Pancoast and Golda Conway Pancoast.

Husband of Lillian Curtin Pancoast.

( Bio by: Russ Pickett )
Roger, who resided at 306 West Twenty-Eighth Street, Wilmington, Delaware, served as a Staff Sergeant with the 695th Armored Field Artillery Battalion, U.S. Army during World War II.

He enlisted in the Army on October 23, 1941, prior to the war, at Fort Dix, New Jersey. He was noted as being employed as a mechanic and also as being Single, without dependents at the time of his enlistment.

He was "Killed In Action" in France during the war.

He had served in the Army for two years and ten months at the time of his death and was decorated with a Purple Heart.

Service # 32186430

Son of Roger C. Pancoast and Golda Conway Pancoast.

Husband of Lillian Curtin Pancoast.

( Bio by: Russ Pickett )

Inscription

SGT 695 ARMD FA BN DELAWARE

Gravesite Details

Entered the service from Delaware



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  • Maintained by: Russ Pickett
  • Originally Created by: War Graves
  • Added: Aug 7, 2010
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56349754/roger_sheridan-pancoast: accessed ), memorial page for S/Sgt. Roger Sheridan Pancoast (11 Jun 1918–7 Aug 1944), Find a Grave Memorial ID 56349754, citing Brittany American Cemetery and Memorial, Saint-James, Departement de la Manche, Basse-Normandie, France; Maintained by Russ Pickett (contributor 46575736).