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Personal info

Full name
COOK, Harold Junior
Date of birth
6 October 1921
Age
22
Place of birth
Knox County, Indiana
Hometown
Knox County, Indiana

Military service

Service number
15060475
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
10th Infantry Regiment,
5th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
30 September 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Pounoy-la-Chétive - Sillegny, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 31 45

Immediate family

Members
Claude Cook (father)
Linna M. (Harris) Cook (mother)
Roy Z. Cook (brother)
Noble O. Cook (brother)
Clarence O. Cook (brother)
Gable Cook (brother)
Ruth Cook (sister)
George Cook (sister)
Mary Cook (sister)

More information

S/Sgt Harold J. Cook worked on a farm.

He joined the Regular Army at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana on 6 November 1940.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of St. James, France.

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 / Dreyer Geneology 2 / Indiana Birth Certificate, A footsoldier for Patton / Michael C. Bilder James G. Bilder, The 5th Infantry Division in the ETO

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Sue York, www.ancestry.com - courtesy of Kathy McDermott