Private First Class ROBERT L. PATE 14010218

Private First Class ROBERT L. PATE 14010218, U. S. Army. Brother of Staff Sergeant RAYMOND RAY PATE, and Tec Sergeant CLYDE PATE. Son of Mrs. Mary C. Pate. He was born December 25, 1917, and attended Grand Bayou and Byrd High Schools. On July 27, 1940, he entered the Army at the age of 22. He served at Fort Benning, Georgia, Camp Beauregard, Camp Polk, Fort Knox, Kentucky, and the California Desert Area where he engaged in maneuvers. He served at Camp Pickett, Virginia, Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, and Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. On September 5, 1943, he embarked for the European Theater of Operations where he served in England and France. He was in combat in the Campaigns of Normandy and Northern France and has the European African Middle Eastern Theater of Operations (ETO) Ribbon with two bronze campaign stars. Private First Class Pate was wounded in combat in September, 1944, and was returned to England where he received the Purple Heart Medal (PHM). He was discharged at Dibble General Hospital at Menlo Park, California on September 28, 1945. 

Source:

1- THE FIGHTING MEN OF LOUISIANA – LOUISIANA HISTORICAL INSTITUTE – 1946

2- http://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=893&mtch=6&cat=all&tf=F&q=ROBERT+L.+PATE&bc=sd&rpp=10&pg=1&rid=855990&rlst=855990,1192189,1147121,3611867,5072741,5152457