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Personal info

Full name
BONHAM, Dale
Date of birth
23 October 1925
Age
18
Place of birth
Near Arthur, Tazewell County, Illinois
Hometown
Tazewell County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
36782798
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
60th Infantry Regiment,
9th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
6 September 1944
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
H 7 2

Immediate family

Members
Jake Bonham (father)
Mabel (Fortner) Bonham (mother)
Jesse Bonham (brother)
Bonnie Bonham (sister)
Shirley Bonham (sister)
Phyllis Bonham (sister)
Clifford Bonham (half-brother)
Ora Bonham (half-brother)
Marguerite Skaggs (half-sister)
Dorothy Lasley (half-sister)
Eugene C. Hott (half-brother)

More information

Pvt Dale Bonham was employed at the Pekin Floral Co. before he enlisted in January 1944.

He had been overseas for three months when he was killed in action.

Pvt Dale Bonham was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Fosse, Belgium.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten,  www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, http://www.60thinfantry.com, www.newspapers.com - The Decatur Daily Review, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, The Decatur Daily Review - 12 October 1944