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Personal info

Full name
COOK, Harold Austin "Archie"
Date of birth
31 October 1915
Age
29
Place of birth
Arvada, Sheridan County, Wyoming
Hometown
Jonestown, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33774915
Rank
Private
Function
Rifleman
Unit
K Company,
3rd Battalion,
317th Infantry Regiment,
80th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
30 November 1944
Place of death
unknown

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 9 69

Immediate family

Members
George A. Cook (father)
Effie (Watson) Cook (mother)
Earl W. Cook (brother)
Marceline Cook (sister)
John C. Cook (brother)
Pauline M. (Ebling) Cook (wife)
George E. Cook (son)
Sandra Cook (daughter)

More information

Pvt Harold A. Cook was employed as a mechanic at employed at Keystone Silk Mill.

He enlisted in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania on 16 March 1944. He was sent overseas in September 1944.

Pvt Cook was reported seriously wounded in action on 10 November 1944 and was evacuated to a hospital. At that moment his unit was engaged in a fighting one mile west of Luppy, France.

Source of information: Leo Minne, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1920/1930/1940/1950 Census / U.S. Draft Cards Young Men, www.findagrave.com, www.80thdivision.com, Lebanon Daily News - 25 November 1944
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy