Application for grave marker and resulting grave marker at Plot GG21, Richland Cemetery
in Brinker (Hopkins County), Texas [courtesy of Jo
Ann Cross]
Pfc Stout's remains, shown here arriving by train, were repatriated
after the war as the ABMC began to populate the Normandy American
Cemetery. Families were free to choose to have their loved ones
laid to permanent rest in Normandy, or to have the remains shipped home
for burial in local. cemeteries.
The grave marker attests to the fact that Pfc Stout was KIA on June
13, 1944, less than a month before his 26th birthday. Earlier
reports had stated that his date of death was 11 days later.
The letter shown at right documents that Pfc Stout was KIA on
June 13, 1944 rather than
the previous official date of June 24, 1944.
The disparity in dates is probably due to the Graves Registration
recording the date when they initially recovered the body.
The actual date of death was later corrected based on official
documents such as, perhaps, the Company D Morning Report. |