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Personal info

Full name
SOWELL, Joe Ralph
Date of birth
29 September 1909
Age
35
Place of birth
White County, Arkansas
Hometown
Searcy, White County, Arkansas

Military service

Service number
38666416
Rank
Private First Class
Function
Rifleman
Unit
L Company,
3rd Battalion,
318th Infantry Regiment,
80th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
24 December 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Ettelbruck, Luxembourg

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 11 73

Immediate family

Members
Lewis M. Sowell (father)
Mabel (Canada) Sowell (mother)
Richard H. Sowell (brother)
Louis Sowell (brother)
Elizabeth Sowell (sister)
Elizabeth Sowell (wife)

More information

Pfc Joe R. Sowell was employed at the Hall’s Grocery.

He was killed by small arms fire in the thorax.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com – 1910/1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files / U.S. Draft Cards Young Men / Arkansas Marriages Index, www.80thdivision.com
Photo source: Peter Schouteten