DE PERE Pvt. Robert Bam. 20. son of Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Bam, West De Pere, route 1, was slightly wounded in action July 3 in France, it was learned Monday by his parents. He had been a paratrooper, it was known.
    The young man is the second son of the Bains to be wounded. as Pvt. Hamilton Bain, 21, was wounded in the New Guinea fighting some lime ago. Hamilton, however, recovered in a hospital, and had gone hack into action, according to a letter received by his parents.

[Green Bay Press-Gazette, (Green Bay, WI, 08 Aug 1944, Tue, Page 21]

Another War department telegram received Monday conveyed the information that Pvt Robert J. Bain, son of Mr. Elizabeth Bain, West De Pere. route 1. had been slightly wounded Jan. 7 in action in Belgium. The message added that he would write from a hospital, to which he was removed.

[Green Bay Press-Gazette, (Green Bay, WI, 30 Jan 1945, Tue, Page 17]

Pfc. Robert Bain Dies As Result of Wound

   DE PERE Mrs. Elizabeth Bain, West De Pere, route 2, was notified by the War department Wednesday evening that her son, Pfc. Robert J. Bain, died in Belgium Jan. 20 as the result of wounds received in action.
   He had returned to duty only a few weeks before, on Jan. 9, after recovering from wounds he had suffered in action earlier.

[Green Bay Press-Gazette, (Green Bay, WI, 08 Mar 1945, Thu, Page 31]

  Bain Services To Be Held on Sunday

DE PERE The body of Pfc. Robert J. Bain, 19, who was killed in action Jan. 30, 1945, while serving with the 82nd Airborne division in Belgium, has been returned to this country for reburial. The casket will arrive at De Pere on the North Western [rail]road at 8:47 Saturday morning.
   Funeral services will be conducted from the Ryan Funeral home at 2:30 Sunday afternoon with military rites at the graveside in Cady cemetery by a firing squad from the De Pere post, Veterans of Foreign Wars. The Rev. Robert L. Rock, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran church at Oneida will officiate,
   Pfc. Bain was a member of the 508th Parachute infantry, 82nd division. He trained at Fort Riley, lKan., Fort Benning, Ga.. and Fort Meade, Md., before going overseas in March 1944. He was in the invasion of France where he was wounded July 2, 1944.
    He was born Feb. 17, 1925. Before entering the service he was employed at the U. S. Paper Mills.
   jHe is survived by his parents, Mr. ;and Mrs. Hamilton Bain. West De Pere, route 1, and by seven brothers and sisters, Mrs. William Boison. Isaar. Wis., Sarah. David, Floyd, Carol, Claude and Larry. all at home.

[Green Bay Press-Gazette, (Green Bay, WI, 27 Jul 1949, Wed, Page 27]

[photos courtesy 'Sassythor',]

Application for headstone and grave markers for Pfc Robert J. Bain in the Cady Cemetery, De Pere, Wisconsin

Pfc Bain was killed in action on January 30, 1945 and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and the Purple Heart with 2 Oak lead Clusters