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.