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Personal info

Full name
COX, Carl Sr
Date of birth
27 October 1918
Age
26
Place of birth
Tina, Carroll County, Missouri
Hometown
Richmond, Ray County, Missouri

Military service

Service number
37734436
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
I Company,
3rd Battalion,
15th Infantry Regiment,
3rd Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
1 February 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Urschenheim - Kunzheim, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 36 52

Immediate family

Members
Jeremiah D. Cox (father)
Cordelia (Neill) Cox (mother)
Elwood Cox (half-brother)
Mary M. Cox (half-sister)
Mossie M. Cox (sister)
Fred Cox (brother)
Frank G. Cox (brother)
Alfred Cox (brother)
Alice G. Cox (sister)
Helen A. (Wrisinger) Cox (wife)
Janice G. Cox (daughter)

More information

Pvt Carl Cox Sr. was a filling station attendant before he enlisted at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas on 15 July 1944.

His brother Alfred, a merchant marine man, was killed on 3 March 1943 when his ship, the SS Meriwether Lewis, part of the Murmansk Convoy HX 227 was torpedoed by U-634 in the Atlantic Ocean, southwest of Iceland. He is remembered at the Tablets of the Missing at Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Cards, History 3rd Infantry Division WWII
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy / Curt Benge