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Personal info

Full name
FINCKBONE, Orville Leroy
Date of birth
16 September 1915
Age
29
Place of birth
Centralia, Marion County, Illinois
Hometown
Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

Military service

Service number
36370964
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
110th Infantry Regiment,
28th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
23 January 1945
Place of death
Near Colmar, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
K 12 9

Immediate family

Members
Raymond Anderson (father)
Maude Finckbone (mother)
Frances E. (Sell) Finckbone (wife)
Orville Finckbone Jr. (son)

More information

Pfc Orville L. Finckbone was a driver before he enlisted in Chicago, Illinois on 11 September 1942.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Flanagan Family Tree / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, www.findagrave.com , 1880 / 1920 US Census
Photo source: Milwaukee Journal - 27 March 1945