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Personal info

Full name
COKER, Thomas Joshua
Date of birth
10 September 1918
Age
26
Place of birth
Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida
Hometown
Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida

Military service

Service number
34912768
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
G Company,
3rd Battalion,
327th Glider Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
6 February 1945
Place of death
France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 16 35

Immediate family

Members
Benjamin F. Coker (father)
Irene (Bonifray) Coker (mother)
Benjamin F. Coker (brother)
Benita M. Coker (sister)
Franklin B. Coker (brother)
Annie M. (Bobe) Coker (wife)
Mary A. Coker (daughter)

More information

Pvt Thomas J. Coker graduated from Sacred Heart School and Pensacola High School and was a shipping and receiving clerk.

He enlisted in Camp Blanding, Florida on 10 July 1944.

He had been overseas since the week before Christmas.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Astrid van Erp, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record, John Watson Coker Family Tree, 1920 - 1930 Census, WWII Draft Card, www.newspaper.com, http://www.w2-airborne.us, www.newspapers.com - Pensacola News Journal
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy