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Personal info

Full name
CLAYPOOLE, Wallace R
Date of birth
12 July 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Fleming County, Kentucky
Hometown
Nassau County, New York

Military service

Service number
35873350
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
180th Infantry Regiment,
45th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
18 January 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Mouterhouse, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 26 25

Immediate family

Members
Thomas C. Claypoole (father)
Ella L. (Collins) Claypoole (mother)
Stanley G. Claypoole (brother)
Edna L. Claypoole (sister)
Horace H. Claypoole (brother)
Gladys P. Claypoole (sister)
Harold Claypoole (brother)

More information

S/Sgt Wallace R. Claypoole attended 4 years of college before he enlisted in Cincinnati, Ohio on 3 August 1943.

He was mortally wounded in Mouterhouse, France on 14 January 1945, and died four days later.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Johnson Hoebe Tree, http://www.45thdivision.org, www.findagrave.com – Steve Barnett
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy