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Personal info

Full name
JONES, Vincent Paul
Date of birth
1917
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York
Hometown
Dutchess County, New York

Military service

Service number
42089045
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
378th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
23 December 1944
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
A 31 4

Immediate family

Members
Nelson A. Jones (father)
Mary J. (Engweller) Jones (mother)
Nelson J. Jones (brother)
Francis A. Jones (brother)
Catherine E. Jones (sister)
Howard Jones (brother)
Mary G. (Ferguson) Jones (wife)
Mary C. Jones (daughter)
Rose Jones (daughter)
Vincent P. Jones Jr. (son)
Thomas Jones (son)
Joyce Jones (daughter)

More information

Pvt Vincent P. Jones was employed by the Travis Baking company enlisted at Fort Dix, New Jersey on 16 March 1944 and was sent overseas in September 1944.

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

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Brennan Family Tree / 1925/1940 Census, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php, www.newspapers.com - Pouthkeepsie Journal

Photo source: -, www.newspapers.com - Pouthkeepsie Journal