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Personal info

Full name
SWEENEY, Jewell W
Date of birth
9 September 1915
Age
29
Place of birth
Eminence, Channon County, Missouri
Hometown
St. Louis, Missouri

Military service

Service number
37636982
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
101st Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
11 January 1945
Place of death
Near Wiltz, Luxembourg

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 8 61

Immediate family

Members
Charles E. Sweeney (father)
Margaret F. (Blunkall) Sweeney (mother)
Maude Sweeney (sister)
Floyd J. Sweeney (brother)
Willie Sweeney (brother)
Bessie Sweeney (sister)
Virgil R. Sweeney (brother)
Noel B. Sweeney (brother)
Eunice I. (White) Sweeney (wife)
Verda M. Sweeney (daughter)
Jewel W. Sweeney Jr. (son)
Margaret A. Sweeney (daughter)

More information

Pvt Jewell W. Sweeney was employed at the Duro Chrome Furn Company before he enlisted at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri on 19 May 1944.

He died of a gunshot wound in his mandible.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Solers, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Hickerson Martin Family Tree / 1940 Census / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.fold3.com - 26th Infantry Division

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy, www.ancestry.com - Elizabeth Cochran, www.newspapers.com - St. Louis Post Dispatch - 31 January 1945