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Personal info

Full name
HYNES, Joseph Wallace
Date of birth
6 April 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Suffolk County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31302063
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
C Company,
51st Armored Infantry Battalion,
4th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
9 November 1944
Place of death
In the Fonteney area, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 27 24

Immediate family

Members
Wallace J. Hynes (father)
Lena (Hicks) Hynes (mother)
Roy I. Hynes (brother)
heresa M. Hynes (sister)
Bermard A. Hynes (brother)
Arthur Hynes (brother)
Margaret Hynes (sister)

More information

Pfc Joseph W. Hynes enlisted in Boston Massachusetts on 8 March 1943.

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

Source of information: André Koch, www.abmc.govwww.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 Census / MacDougal Family Tree / Headstone and Interment Records, AAR 51st AIB August 44 thru May 1945

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