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Personal info

Full name
JONES, Thomas Benjamin Jr
Date of birth
7 June 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland
Hometown
Allegany County, Maryland

Military service

Service number
33179776
Rank
Private
Function
Cannoneer
Unit
C Company,
17th Tank Battalion,
7th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
4 October 1944
Place of death
Just North of the boot-shaped woods, north of Overloon, the Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Walls of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Thomas B. Jones (father)
Annie M. (Miller) Jones ( mother)
Carl E. Jones (brother)
Clarence W. Jones (brother)
Arthur P. Jones (brother)
Virginia M. Jones (sister)
Richard D. Jones (brother)
Anne L. Jones (brother)
Claude W. Jones (brother)
Mildred Jones (sister)

More information

Pvt Thomas B. Jones Jr. attended LaSalle High School and was a former employee of the Celanese Company. He entered the service on 4 April 1942 at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. He trained at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and in California before going overseas.

He was a cannoneer of tank #12 when it was hit by an anti-tank weapon and immediately burst into flames.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, http://www.7tharmddiv.org/index.htm, www.ancestry.com - 1920/1940 census / United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, www.findagrave.com, www.newspapers.com - Cumberland Sunday Times

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Cumberland Sunday Times - 5 November 1944