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Personal info

Full name
COOLEY, Tobie
Date of birth
1919
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Beauregard Parish, Louisiana
Hometown
Beauregard Parish, Louisiana

Military service

Service number
18008649
Rank
Technician Fourth Grade
Function
unknown
Unit
2nd Engineer Combat Battalion,
2nd Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
19 December 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Büllingen-Rocherath, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
C 13 52

Immediate family

Members
John I. Cooley (father)
Ida O. (Martin) Cooley (mother)
Louis Cooley (brother)
Willie Cooley (brother)
Alfred Cooley (brother)
Frank Cooley (brother)
Woodard Cooley (brother)
Sidney Cooley (brother)
R. C. Cooley (brother)

More information

T/4 Tobie Cooley worked on a farm.

He joined the Regular Army in Houston, Texas on 1 August 1940.

According to a newspaper article of the The La Crosse Tribune of 17 June 1945, a bomb struck a building in which 18 men of the battalion were in. Eight men were killed and three were wounded.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, www.wwiimemorial.com - Sibley Cooley, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - WWII Enlistment Record / 1930 Census / Cooley Family tree, The La Crosse Tribune - 17 June 1945

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet