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Personal info

Full name
HAMRICK, Junior B
Date of birth
8 June 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
West Virginia
Hometown
Fork Lick, Webster County, West Virginia

Military service

Service number
35847977
Rank
Private First Class
Function
Rifleman
Unit
E Company,
2nd Battalion,
116th Infantry Regiment,
29th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
16 October 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Wûrselen, North of Aachen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
A 3 3

Immediate family

Members
Benson Hamrick (father)
Ora Hamrick (mother)
Doy H Hamrick (brother)
Retha Hamrick (sister)
Rossie Hamrick (sister)
Leslie Hamrick (brother)
Victor L.Hamrick (brother)
Bulah Hamrick (sister)
Thelma Hamrick (sister)
Waneta Hamrick (sister)
Denver C. Hamrick (brother)
Hazel O. Hamrick (sister)
Harlan Hamrick (brother)

More information

Pfc Junior B. Hamrick joined his unit from Replacement Depot on 9 August 1944.

According to a niece he applied for the army after his brother S/Sgt Victor L. Hamrick died in the war. Victor is commemorated on the Walls of the Missing at Margraten.

Source of information: Family Hamrick, Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - 1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record

Photo source: Anneke Groothoff-Bakker, Dea Hamrick Hawks