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Personal info

Full name
HUTTON, James Robert
Date of birth
15 August 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Joliet, Will County, Illinois
Hometown
Joliet, Will County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
16143757
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
15th Infantry Regiment,
3rd Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
31 October 1944
Place of death
unknown

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 11 11

Immediate family

Members
James H. Hutton (father)
Clara M. (Coder) Hutton (mother)
Doris J. Hutton (sister)
Allice M. Hutton (sister)
Marian K. Hutton (sister)
Betty J. Hutton (sister)
William R. Hutton (brother)
Norma J. Hutton (sister)

More information

Pfc James R. Hutton attended high school for three years and was a shipping clerk, employed by the Barrett Hardware Company, before he enlisted in Chicago, Illinois on 2 December 1942.

He was wounded at his foot by artillery shell fragments, but died in a hospital of a pneumococcal lobar. The exact location of the hospital where he died is not known.

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