Adams Harold Raymond

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Harold Raymond Adams is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:

Dieppe American Ranger Memorial

Name:

Harold Raymond Adams

Rank:

Staff Sergeant

Serial Number:

20706530

Unit:

3rd Ranger Battalion

Date of Death:

1975-08-08

State:

Iowa

Cemetery:

Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, USA

Plot:

Section C

Row:

Lot 71

Grave:

Decoration:

Comments:

Harold Raymond �Tony� Adams was born on February 1, 1914, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa. He was the son of Jordan H. Adams and Ollie Myrtle Sloan Adams. He was first married to Fae LaVerne Morris Jones. He was married again to Marguerite Catherine "Beber" Anhorn-Horst Adams.

Adams served in the 1st Ranger Battalion as a Sergeant during World War II. He was promoted to Staff Sergeant and transferred to Company B, 3rd Ranger Battalion. SSgt Adams was one of 50 US Army Rangers who participated with British Commando on the Dieppe raid in 1942. He died on August 8, 1975, and is now buried in Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, USA.

Source of information and photo: wwiirangers.org