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Personal info

Full name
HOLT, Joseph Walter Sr
Date of birth
21 February 1910
Age
34
Place of birth
Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33835927
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
1st Battalion,
179th Infantry Regiment,
45th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
30 September 1944
Place of death
Grandvillers, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 32 13

Immediate family

Members
Robert J. Holt (father)
Anna M. (Sotzin) Holt (mother)
Catharine S. Holt (sister)
Robert E. Holt (brother)
Margaret M. (Brennan) Holt (wife)
Joseph W. Holt Jr. (son)

More information

Pvt Joseph W. Holt Sr. was a sales clerk before he enlisted in Allentown, Pennsylvania on 29 December 1943.

He was killed by a sniper's bullet while on his first patrol.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Saint-Juan, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Kathy McDermott, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com - Joseph W. Holt, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Pennsylvania Veteran Compensation Application Files WWII / Hostetter Antolic Dively Boy, http://www.45thdivision.org, www.newspapers.com - Mount Carmel Item Pennsylvania 22 December 1944
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy, Pottsville Republican - 23 October 1944