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Personal info

Full name
PAPILON, Joseph Aloyious
Date of birth
16 January 1913
Age
31
Place of birth
Baltimore, Maryland
Hometown
Baltimore, Maryland

Military service

Service number
33735787
Rank
Private First Class
Function
Rifleman
Unit
K Company,
3rd Battalion,
318th Infantry Regiment,
80th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
17 November 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Clémery, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
B 16 59

Immediate family

Members
Anton Papilon (father)
Lizie Papilon (mother)
Kathrin (Spanz) Papilon (stepmother)
Hellen Papilon (sister)
Max P. Papilon (brother)
Frank S. Papilon (brother)
Evelyn E. (Resh) Papilon (wife)
William Papilon (son)

More information

Pfc Joseph A. Papilon attended high school for two years and was a welder employed at Bethlehem Steel in Baltimore before he enlisted in Baltimore, Maryland on 17 September 1943.
He was killed by artillery shell fragments in the thorax.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com – 1930/1940 Census / U.S. Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files / All our Families Family Tree / U.S. Draft Cards Young Man
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Major M