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Personal info

Full name
HOOPES, Lewis Donald
Date of birth
12 March 1911
Age
33
Place of birth
Jeffersonville, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33833618
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
157th Infantry Regiment,
45th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
12 December 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Schönau, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
A 28 27

Immediate family

Members
Lewis C. Hoopes (father)
Catherine E. (Getty) Hoopes (mother)
Edith L. (Warmkessel) Hoopes (wife)
David W. Hoopes (son)

More information

Sgt Lewis D. Hoopes attended high school for 4 years and was a smith before he enlisted in Allentown, Pennsylvania on 21 October 1943.

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

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Pennsylvania Veteran Compensation Application Files WWII / Cynthia Lewis Cocker’s Family, http://www.45thdivision.org
Photo source: David B Hoopes (grandson)