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Personal info

Full name
CLARK, John J Jr
Date of birth
6 October 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Virginia
Hometown
Norfolk City, Northampton County, Virginia
Ethnicity
African American

Military service

Service number
33629633
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
1st Battalion,
16th Infantry Regiment,
1st Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
19 April 1945
Place of death
Hüttenrode, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
F 1 21

Immediate family

Members
John Clark (father)
Edith L. Clark (mother)
Jean J. (Wilson) Clark (wife)
Kay F. Clark (daughter)

More information

John J. Clark Jr. worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad.

He enlisted in Richmond, Virginia on 16 March 1943.

He was initially buried at the Temporary Amercina Military Cemetery of Breuna, Germany on 23 April 1945. He was reburied in a temporary grave at Margraten on 5 August 1945 and given his final resting place on 27 January 1949.

The story of African-American volunteers as infantry replacements can be read here: http://www.history.army.mil/html/topics/afam/aa-volinfreps.htm

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, Individual Deceased Personnel File, WWIIMemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - 1930 Census,
www.history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/resmat/ww2list.html, www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Kay Clark Trejo (daughter) - courtesy of Debbie Holloman