A One-Name Study for the BARNUM/BARNHAM Surname
He came ashore at Normandy in 1945, the year after the famous Normandy Invasion. He died as a result of friendly fire. Another US infantryman threw a hand grenade into his foxhole, badly injuring him, and while he was recuperating in a hospital in France he developed meningitis, from which he died.
He died in the Army Hospital in Marseille, of meningitis contracted as a complication of wounds suffered during World War II.
He was buried in the Rhone American Cemetery.
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