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Personal info

Full name
COALE, John Dale
Date of birth
1920
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Indiana
Hometown
Princeton, Gibson County, Indiana

Military service

Service number
15060187
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
10th Infantry Regiment,
5th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

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

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 4 67

Immediate family

Members
John McClure Coale (father)
Marie R. (Carell) Coale (mother)
Betty Coale (sister)
Irma Coale (sister)
Ray D. Coale (brother)

Jasper C. Lucas (foster parent)

More information

Pfc. John D. Coale enlisted in the Regular Army at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indiana on 27 October 1940.

He was employed as a laborer for WPA County Roads.

He was first buried at the U.S. Temporary Cemetery St. James, St. James, France.

At the time of his death the 10th Infantry Regiment was engaged in the second battle for the Fort Driant.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record 1942-1949 / Carell Family Tree, A footsoldier for Patton / Michael C. Bilder James G. Bilder, The 5th Infantry division in the ETO

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Thomas Clark