Missing information?

Do you have any additional information you would like to share about a soldier?

Submit

Personal info

Full name
LOVELY, John Browne
Date of birth
22 September 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
New York
Hometown
Queens, Queens County, New York
Religion
Catholic

Military service

Service number
42030641
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
K Company,
3rd Battalion,
334th Infantry Regiment,
84th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
7 December 1944
Place of death
Leiffarth, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
B 21 1

Immediate family

Members
Thomas J. H. Lovely (father)
Margaret I. (Browne) Lovely (mother)
Margaret Lovely (sister)
Thomas D. Lovely (brother)

More information

Sgt John B. Lovely attended Fordham University.

He enlisted in New York City, New York on 19 August 1943.

Source of information: André Koch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1930 Census / U.S., Headstone and Interment Record / Family Trees, http://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/89/

Photo source: R. Hauer, www.newspapers.com - Daily News - 23 December 1944, Marcel van Aalzum, Michel Beckers