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Personal info

Full name
JONES, Francis Lemuel
Date of birth
3 September 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Cairo, Grady County, Georgia
Hometown
Cairo, Grady County, Georgia

Military service

Service number
34088613
Rank
Corporal
Function
unknown
Unit
C Company,
48th Armored Infantry Battalion,
7th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
10 April 1945
Place of death
Kuckelheim, Ruhr Pocket, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
A 7 10

Immediate family

Members
Thomas W. Jones (father)
Carolyn L. (Powell) Jones (mother)
Robert E. Jones (brother)
Eulalia Jones (sister)
Thomas W. Jones (brother)
William P. Jones (brother)
Mary H. Jones (sister)

More information

Francis L. Jones completed 4 years at high school and was a bookkeeper at a bank in civilian life.
He is memorialized at Cairo Cemetery in Georgia.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Astrid van Erp, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, http://www.7tharmddiv.org/index.htm, www.ancestry.com - Family Trees

Photo source: Peter Schouteten