Saturday, October 02, 2010
Remains Of Elkins Man To Be Buried In National Cemetery
WEST VIRGINIA....
Sixty-six years after his death, the remains of Pfc. Lawrence Harris of Elkins will be buried October 8th at the West Virginia National Cemetery in Pruntytown. Honor guards from Taylor County and Camp Dawson will attend. Military records show the 24-year-old Harris and two others died October 9, 1944, when their M-10 tank destroyer was blown up by enemy fire in a French forest. The Army tried unsuccessfully to locate the men but ruled them unrecoverable in 1947 without knowing the bodies had been found and buried without identification in Belgium. In 2003, an ID bracelet was discovered in France leading investigators to begin to make the connection.
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