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Pfc Lawrence C Reinemeyer

Central Catholic High School, Toledo OH - 1939

219th Field Artillery Battalion - Service Battery

Lawrence Charles Reinemeyer, son of Anthony Joseph and Elizabeth Frances (Glaser) Reinemeyer, was born September 3, 1918 in Toledo, Ohio. He registered for the draft October 16, 1940. At that time he was 22 years old, living in Flint, Michigan and working at the Martin Rosenberger Wallpaper Store. He was inducted into the Army August 5, 1941 at Detroit, Michigan. He joined Service Battery, 219th Field Artillery Battalion sometime prior to mid-July 1944 and served as an ammunition handler. He was killed in action just south of Mortain, France when the Battery underwent an air attack just after midnight the morning of August 10, 1944. Both anti-personnel and high explosive bombs were dropped. Army hospital records indicate he was killed by aerial bomb fragments. Pfc Lawrence Charles Reinemeyer is buried at Calvary Cemetery, Toledo, Ohio.

The Genoa Gazette, Genoa OH - September 1, 1944