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Personal info

Full name
FRANCIS, Joseph O
Date of birth
2 September 1911
Age
33
Place of birth
Illinois
Hometown
Frankling County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
36070858
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
A Company,
1st Battalion,
327th Glider Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died non-Battle
Date of death
28 February 1945
Place of death
Limburg an der Lahn, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
D 49 24

Immediate family

Members
Charles R. Francis (father)
Grace B. (O’Neil) Francis (mother)
Daisy Murillian Francis (sister)
Pauline Francis (sister)

More information

Pfc Joseph O. Francis died in Stalag XII-A.

His sister, Murillian, is still alive today (November 2017) at the age of 103. When she was 91 she visited her brother's grave at Lorraine for the first time.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – World War II Prisoners of War Data File, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil / 1930 Census / Mitchell Bondurant Family Tree, http://www.ww2-airborne.us
Photo source: Family collection