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Personal info

Full name
DRUMMOND, Joe B
Date of birth
28 November 1914
Age
29
Place of birth
Greenwood, Greenwood County, South Carolina
Hometown
Macon, Bibb County, Georgia

Military service

Service number
34972633
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
1st Battalion,
134th Infantry Regiment,
35th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
23 September 1944
Place of death
Leyr, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
D 2 26

Immediate family

Members
Timothy C. Drummond (father)
Elizabeth (Tucker) Drummond (mother)
Agnes Drummond (sister)
Louise B. (Wheeler) Drummond (wife)
Margaret Drummond (daughter)

More information

Pvt Joe B. Drummond attended high school for four years and was employed at the State Highway Dept before he enlisted at Fort McPherson Atlanta, Georgia on 21 March 1944.

He was killed by shell fragments in his back.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Andilly, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Kirby Family Tree / 1940 Census / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, After Action Report 35th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com - Coleman

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