Ancestry.com. Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997
Name: Richard Bailey Bednarz
Date of Birth: 20 Sep 1924
Birth County: Fayette
Certificate Number: 58701
Roll Number: 1924_0002
Special Forces - Roll Of Honour
• SURNAME
Bednarz
• FORENAME
Richard B.
• UNIT
517 Parachute Infantry Regiment (RHQ)
• RANK
Private
• NUMBER
18104461
• DATE OF DEATH
21st September 1944
• AGE
• GRAVESITE
Rhone American Cemetery,Draguignan,France Plot A Row 2 Grave 26
• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from DeWitt County,Texas
son of August Bednarz
son of Dovie (nee Bailey) and stepson of Jesse Park,Cuero,Texas
husband of Margaret Bednarz (married 3.10.1943)
KIA South France
Source Citation: Year: 1930; Census Place: Yoakum, Lavaca, Texas; Roll: 2369; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 19; Image: 1066.0; FHL microfilm: 2342103.
Household Members:
Name Age
Agust R Bednarz 32 abt 1898 TX
Dovie E Bednarz 23 abt 1907 TX
Richard B Bednarz 5 abt 1925 TX
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Private Richard Bailey Bednarz, born 20 Sep 1924, was the son of August Richard and Dovey Elizabeth (Bailey) Bednarz of DeWitt County, Texas. DeWitt County is east of San Antonio.
In the 1930 census 5-year-old Richard is living with his parents at 301 Hopkins Street in Yoakum, DeWitt County, Texas. Yoakum is 90 miles east of San Antonio and 39 miles north of Victoria. His father is a carpenter for a railroad company. Brother Robert Morris Bednarz was born in 1931.
Richard enlisted 10 Apr 1942 at San Antonio. His residence was in DeWitt County, Texas. He’d had 3 years of high school and was married. Russell County, Alabama, has a marriage record for a Richard B Bednarz, whose mother was Elizabeth Bailey, on 4 Oct 1943, so likely a second marriage.
The 517th was formed in early 1943 and trained at Camp Toccoa, Georgia, 93 miles northeast of Atlanta. The 517th saw heavy fighting in the Italian Campaign in June 1944, before being transferred to take part in Operation Dragoon in August 1944, in Southern France, which happened to be their first combat jump.
From 517prct.org: The red-letter day of the "Champagne Campaign" was September 18th when Ventebren and Tete de Lavina Viere was taken by the Second and Third Battalions with a total cost of only four casualties. The remainder of September was spent by the 517th digging defensive positions in and around Piera Cava along a thinly held fifteen-mile front, using mines and booby traps to take the place of Troopers, of which there were far too few.
Piera Cava is in the Maritime Alps 22 miles north northeast of Nice.
The NARA WWII casualty listings by state and county show Bednarz, Richard B, Pvt, from DeWitt County, Texas as killed in action 21 Sep 1944 so he would have been in the area of Piera Cava.
Name: Richard Bailey Bednarz
Date of Birth: 20 Sep 1924
Birth County: Fayette
Certificate Number: 58701
Roll Number: 1924_0002
Special Forces - Roll Of Honour
• SURNAME
Bednarz
• FORENAME
Richard B.
• UNIT
517 Parachute Infantry Regiment (RHQ)
• RANK
Private
• NUMBER
18104461
• DATE OF DEATH
21st September 1944
• AGE
• GRAVESITE
Rhone American Cemetery,Draguignan,France Plot A Row 2 Grave 26
• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from DeWitt County,Texas
son of August Bednarz
son of Dovie (nee Bailey) and stepson of Jesse Park,Cuero,Texas
husband of Margaret Bednarz (married 3.10.1943)
KIA South France
Source Citation: Year: 1930; Census Place: Yoakum, Lavaca, Texas; Roll: 2369; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 19; Image: 1066.0; FHL microfilm: 2342103.
Household Members:
Name Age
Agust R Bednarz 32 abt 1898 TX
Dovie E Bednarz 23 abt 1907 TX
Richard B Bednarz 5 abt 1925 TX
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Private Richard Bailey Bednarz, born 20 Sep 1924, was the son of August Richard and Dovey Elizabeth (Bailey) Bednarz of DeWitt County, Texas. DeWitt County is east of San Antonio.
In the 1930 census 5-year-old Richard is living with his parents at 301 Hopkins Street in Yoakum, DeWitt County, Texas. Yoakum is 90 miles east of San Antonio and 39 miles north of Victoria. His father is a carpenter for a railroad company. Brother Robert Morris Bednarz was born in 1931.
Richard enlisted 10 Apr 1942 at San Antonio. His residence was in DeWitt County, Texas. He’d had 3 years of high school and was married. Russell County, Alabama, has a marriage record for a Richard B Bednarz, whose mother was Elizabeth Bailey, on 4 Oct 1943, so likely a second marriage.
The 517th was formed in early 1943 and trained at Camp Toccoa, Georgia, 93 miles northeast of Atlanta. The 517th saw heavy fighting in the Italian Campaign in June 1944, before being transferred to take part in Operation Dragoon in August 1944, in Southern France, which happened to be their first combat jump.
From 517prct.org: The red-letter day of the "Champagne Campaign" was September 18th when Ventebren and Tete de Lavina Viere was taken by the Second and Third Battalions with a total cost of only four casualties. The remainder of September was spent by the 517th digging defensive positions in and around Piera Cava along a thinly held fifteen-mile front, using mines and booby traps to take the place of Troopers, of which there were far too few.
Piera Cava is in the Maritime Alps 22 miles north northeast of Nice.
The NARA WWII casualty listings by state and county show Bednarz, Richard B, Pvt, from DeWitt County, Texas as killed in action 21 Sep 1944 so he would have been in the area of Piera Cava.
Ancestry.com. Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997
Name: Richard Bailey Bednarz
Date of Birth: 20 Sep 1924
Birth County: Fayette
Certificate Number: 58701
Roll Number: 1924_0002
Special Forces - Roll Of Honour
• SURNAME
Bednarz
• FORENAME
Richard B.
• UNIT
517 Parachute Infantry Regiment (RHQ)
• RANK
Private
• NUMBER
18104461
• DATE OF DEATH
21st September 1944
• AGE
• GRAVESITE
Rhone American Cemetery,Draguignan,France Plot A Row 2 Grave 26
• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from DeWitt County,Texas
son of August Bednarz
son of Dovie (nee Bailey) and stepson of Jesse Park,Cuero,Texas
husband of Margaret Bednarz (married 3.10.1943)
KIA South France
Source Citation: Year: 1930; Census Place: Yoakum, Lavaca, Texas; Roll: 2369; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 19; Image: 1066.0; FHL microfilm: 2342103.
Household Members:
Name Age
Agust R Bednarz 32 abt 1898 TX
Dovie E Bednarz 23 abt 1907 TX
Richard B Bednarz 5 abt 1925 TX
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Private Richard Bailey Bednarz, born 20 Sep 1924, was the son of August Richard and Dovey Elizabeth (Bailey) Bednarz of DeWitt County, Texas. DeWitt County is east of San Antonio.
In the 1930 census 5-year-old Richard is living with his parents at 301 Hopkins Street in Yoakum, DeWitt County, Texas. Yoakum is 90 miles east of San Antonio and 39 miles north of Victoria. His father is a carpenter for a railroad company. Brother Robert Morris Bednarz was born in 1931.
Richard enlisted 10 Apr 1942 at San Antonio. His residence was in DeWitt County, Texas. He’d had 3 years of high school and was married. Russell County, Alabama, has a marriage record for a Richard B Bednarz, whose mother was Elizabeth Bailey, on 4 Oct 1943, so likely a second marriage.
The 517th was formed in early 1943 and trained at Camp Toccoa, Georgia, 93 miles northeast of Atlanta. The 517th saw heavy fighting in the Italian Campaign in June 1944, before being transferred to take part in Operation Dragoon in August 1944, in Southern France, which happened to be their first combat jump.
From 517prct.org: The red-letter day of the "Champagne Campaign" was September 18th when Ventebren and Tete de Lavina Viere was taken by the Second and Third Battalions with a total cost of only four casualties. The remainder of September was spent by the 517th digging defensive positions in and around Piera Cava along a thinly held fifteen-mile front, using mines and booby traps to take the place of Troopers, of which there were far too few.
Piera Cava is in the Maritime Alps 22 miles north northeast of Nice.
The NARA WWII casualty listings by state and county show Bednarz, Richard B, Pvt, from DeWitt County, Texas as killed in action 21 Sep 1944 so he would have been in the area of Piera Cava.
Name: Richard Bailey Bednarz
Date of Birth: 20 Sep 1924
Birth County: Fayette
Certificate Number: 58701
Roll Number: 1924_0002
Special Forces - Roll Of Honour
• SURNAME
Bednarz
• FORENAME
Richard B.
• UNIT
517 Parachute Infantry Regiment (RHQ)
• RANK
Private
• NUMBER
18104461
• DATE OF DEATH
21st September 1944
• AGE
• GRAVESITE
Rhone American Cemetery,Draguignan,France Plot A Row 2 Grave 26
• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from DeWitt County,Texas
son of August Bednarz
son of Dovie (nee Bailey) and stepson of Jesse Park,Cuero,Texas
husband of Margaret Bednarz (married 3.10.1943)
KIA South France
Source Citation: Year: 1930; Census Place: Yoakum, Lavaca, Texas; Roll: 2369; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 19; Image: 1066.0; FHL microfilm: 2342103.
Household Members:
Name Age
Agust R Bednarz 32 abt 1898 TX
Dovie E Bednarz 23 abt 1907 TX
Richard B Bednarz 5 abt 1925 TX
----------
Private Richard Bailey Bednarz, born 20 Sep 1924, was the son of August Richard and Dovey Elizabeth (Bailey) Bednarz of DeWitt County, Texas. DeWitt County is east of San Antonio.
In the 1930 census 5-year-old Richard is living with his parents at 301 Hopkins Street in Yoakum, DeWitt County, Texas. Yoakum is 90 miles east of San Antonio and 39 miles north of Victoria. His father is a carpenter for a railroad company. Brother Robert Morris Bednarz was born in 1931.
Richard enlisted 10 Apr 1942 at San Antonio. His residence was in DeWitt County, Texas. He’d had 3 years of high school and was married. Russell County, Alabama, has a marriage record for a Richard B Bednarz, whose mother was Elizabeth Bailey, on 4 Oct 1943, so likely a second marriage.
The 517th was formed in early 1943 and trained at Camp Toccoa, Georgia, 93 miles northeast of Atlanta. The 517th saw heavy fighting in the Italian Campaign in June 1944, before being transferred to take part in Operation Dragoon in August 1944, in Southern France, which happened to be their first combat jump.
From 517prct.org: The red-letter day of the "Champagne Campaign" was September 18th when Ventebren and Tete de Lavina Viere was taken by the Second and Third Battalions with a total cost of only four casualties. The remainder of September was spent by the 517th digging defensive positions in and around Piera Cava along a thinly held fifteen-mile front, using mines and booby traps to take the place of Troopers, of which there were far too few.
Piera Cava is in the Maritime Alps 22 miles north northeast of Nice.
The NARA WWII casualty listings by state and county show Bednarz, Richard B, Pvt, from DeWitt County, Texas as killed in action 21 Sep 1944 so he would have been in the area of Piera Cava.
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