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Personal info

Full name
BONDS, Howard Thomas
Date of birth
29 September 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Hamburg, Franklin County, Mississippi
Hometown
Franklin County, Mississippi

Military service

Service number
34272642
Rank
Private
Function
Light Machine Gunner
Unit
A Company,
17th Tank Battalion,
7th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Missing in Action
Date of death
4 October 1944
Place of death
Between two woods west of Kijkuit and north of Castle Hattert, east of Overloon, the Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Walls of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Thomas K. Bonds (father)
Iva E. (Aldridge) Bonds (mother)
John V. Bonds (brother)
Robert F. Bonds (brother)
Roy D. Bonds (brother)
Mildred E. (Lyon) Bonds (wife)

More information

Pvt Howard T. Bonds attended high school for three years and was a construction machinery operator.

He enlisted at Camp Shelby, Mississippi on 3 March 1942.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, Carla Mans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, http://www.7tharmddiv.org/index.htm

Photo source: Mireille Goedhart, www.ancestry.com, www.findagrave.com - Alton Bonds