Finding out about your relative using the Message Board

84th Roster is 140 pages long. If you narrow the man's unit down to Regiment that is ~33 pages. Battalion narrows it down to ~7. If you only know his company there were only 3 regiments with the same Co. names so that narrows it down to 3 Pages. Special units (Ord, Signal, Med, AA, TD Bn, etc.) narrows it down to a few pages at most. From this I can look up his listing and get his specific unit, Rank, awards, Campaigns, hometown, date he died (if applicable). From that info we can go to various 84th history books and see what he was involved in. At the least you can get the gist of what they did. At the most he may be mentioned in a specific account. If you are really lucky there may be men who are still living that he served with that we can find. If you are really, really lucky there may be men that still remember him. Finding out his specific Unit is the key to any of the above. Please leave your email address so I can help you. This is the 84th Website so if your relative was not in the 84th we can't help you. Find out the above and go to the appropriate website.
Rick Bell
Son of 1st/Sgt/2Lt Foster F. Bell E333
84th Website Admin