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Personal info

Full name
LOBACH, John H
Date of birth
1913
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Pennsylvania
Hometown
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
O-415065
Rank
Captain
Function
unknown
Unit
109th Field Artillery Battalion,
28th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
28 March 1945
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
K 21 12

Immediate family

Members
Harvey J. Lobach (father)
Emily V. (Wireman) Lobach (mother)
Edna J. Lobach (sister)

More information

Capt John H. Lobach graduated from Carnegie Tech and was an engineer for the Pennsylvania Waterworks Company before he joined the National Guard in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on 17 February 1941.

He was taken prisoner and died in Germany in a POW camp.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record / WWII Prisoners of War Data File, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Landis Family Tree, www.newspapers.com – The Pittsburgh Press 30 January 1945

Photo source: www.newspapers.com - The Pittsburgh Press