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Personal info

Full name
AVERY, June Morris
Date of birth
3 December 1924
Age
19
Place of birth
Lava Hot Springs, Bannock County, Idaho
Hometown
Orangeburg, Orangeburg County, South Carolina

Military service

Service number
39922836
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
328th Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
14 November 1944
Place of death
Koecking Woods, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 17 50

Immediate family

Members
Jesse E. Avery (father)
Emma J. (Bell) Avery (mother)
Jesse L. Avery (brother)
Leland Avery (brother)
Floyd Avery (brother)
Russell A. Avery (brother)
Thelma Avery (sister)
Alice Avery (sister)
John H. Avery (brother)
Ruby A. Avery (sister)
Erma J. Avery (sister)
Dean W. Avery (brother)
Marjorie E. (Miles) Avery (wife)

More information

Pvt June M. Avery attended high school for three years before he enlisted in Pocatello, Idaho on 12 November 1943.

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

He is also remembered at the Lava Hot Springs Cemetery in Lava Hot Springs, Bannock County, Idaho.

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 / Willis Family Tree /1930 Census, www.findagrave.com - MAJ Jimmy Cotton, After Action Report 26th Infantry
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Esther Kinder