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Personal info

Full name
FOWLKES, Alpheus Edward Jr
Date of birth
24 September 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama
Hometown
Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama

Military service

Service number
14163331
Rank
Private
Function
Medical Aidman
Unit
C Company,
1st Battalion,
505th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
82nd Airborne Division
Awards
Silver Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
2 October 1944
Place of death
At the tree row
Breedeweg near Groesbeek, Holland

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
M 11 2

Immediate family

Members
Alpheus E. Fowlkes (father)
Helen M. (Gill) Fowlkes (mother)
Helen Fowlkes (sister)
Miriam R. Fowlkes (sister)
Vernon E. Fowlkes (brother)
Martha (Greer) Fowlkes (sister)
Earline (Marshall) Fowlkes (wife)

More information

Pvt Alpheus E. Fowlkes Jr. enlisted at Fort McClellan, Alabama on 1 October 1942.

Pvt Fowlkes participated in all four combat jumps of his unit: Sicily, Salerno, Normandy on D-day and the Netherlands.

He was killed during a German artillery barrage. He went out during the artillery attack to help 11 men who had been hit. During this act of bravery he himself was hit and killed by a small piece of shrapnel. For this action he was awarded the Silver Star Medal posthumously.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Molenhoek, the Netherlands.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil / Family Tree / WWII Draft Card

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.findagrave.com - Adrienne Donnell Grisel