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Personal info

Full name
HORTON, John Walter
Date of birth
20 March 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Stanly County, North Carolina
Hometown
Montgomery County, North Carolina

Military service

Service number
O1168293
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
A Company,
771st Tank Destroyer Battalion
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
22 November 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Gereonsweiler-Puffendorf, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
P 9 2

Immediate family

Members
John W. Horton Sr. (father)
Carlotta B. (Elkins) Hyde (mother)
Earl G. Hyde (stepfather)
Herman K. Hyde (half-brother)
Robert G. Hyde (half-brother)

More information

1st Lt John W. Horton graduated from High Point High School and was an upholsterer at Circle Chair Factory.

He enlisted at Fort Bragg, North Carolina on 22 March 1944. He was sent overseas in October 1943.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org – history of the 771st TDB, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1920 Census, WWII Draft Card, 1940 US Censu

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, www.newspapers.com - High Point Enterprice North Carolina - 12 December 1944