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Personal info

Full name
PATTERSON, Joseph Edmond
Date of birth
2 August 1905
Age
39
Place of birth
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33577587
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
422nd Infantry Regiment,
106th Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star

Death

Status
Died non-Battle
Date of death
23 January 1945
Place of death
Görlitz, Poland

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Tablets of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Michael Patterson (father)
Bridget Patterson (mother)
Katherin Patterson (sister)
Mary Patterson (sister)
Thomas Patterson (brother)

More information

Pvt Joseph E. Patterson attended 4 years of high school and was a bookkeeper before he enlisted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 18 January 1943.

He was taken prisoner in the vicinity of Schlausenbach, Germany on 16 December 1944.

The POW's who died in the Stalag 8A were buried in the Evangelic Cemetery of the present Ulicia Cmentarna or at Ulicia Luzyka next to a sand and clay pit. In the 1940's the American War Graves Commission exhumed only 6 bodies.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1910/1920/1930/1940 Census, www.findagrave.com, www.indianamilitary.org/106ID/SoThinkMenu/106thSTART.htm

Photo source: Peter Schouteten