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Personal info

Full name
COX, Everett Earl
Date of birth
6 September 1910
Age
34
Place of birth
Missouri
Hometown
Franklin County, Missouri

Military service

Service number
37137223
Rank
Technician Fifth Grade
Function
Tank Driver
Unit
34th Tank Battalion,
5th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

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

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
E 9 34

Immediate family

Members
Jesse N. Cox II (father)
Mary A. (Jones) Cox (mother)
James M. Cox (half-brother)
George W. Cox (half-brother)
Naomie L. Cox (half-sister)
Jessie N. Cox III (half-sister)
John H. Cox (half-brother)
Rose N. Cox (half-sister)
Vernon H. Cox (brother)
Clarence Cox (brother)
Roy W. Cox (brother)
Wesley Cox (brother)
Lula D. Cox (sister)
Eva M. Cox (sister)
Amos H. Cox (brother)
Esther L. Cox (sister)
William C. Cox (brother)
Orville E. Cox (brother)
Charles L. Cox (brother)
Opal A. Cox (sister)

More information

T/5 Everett E. Cox worked at the local shoe factory and was his mother's only support.

He enlisted on 10 January 1942. He was shipped overseas in February 1944.

His brother, Pvt Orville Cox, was killed in a highway accident while enroute back to camp in Indio, California after a furlough at home.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, Astrid van Erp, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.5ad.org, www.ancestry.com - 1900 - 1930 -1940 census / Headstone and Interment Record, www.findagrave.com, http://digital.shsmo.org - St. Clair Chronicle

Photo source: Jac Engels, www.findagrave.com - Lori Lamke