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Personal info

Full name
POPE, Janney Lee
Date of birth
9 December 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Virginia
Hometown
Long Marsh, Clarke County, Virginia

Military service

Service number
20360013
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
Military Policeman
Unit
C Company,
1st Battalion,
175th Infantry Regiment,
29th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
19 December 1944
Place of death
Alsdorf, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
H 4 15

Immediate family

Members
Frederick W. Pope (father)
Eva B. Pope (mother)
Ralph F. Pope (brother)
Elizabeth I. Pope (sister)
Robert E. Pope (brother)
Garland I. Pope (brother)
Eva C. Pope (sister)
Carl H. Pope (brother)
May A. Pope (sister)

More information

S/Sgt Janney L. Pope enlisted in Berryville, Virginia on 3 February 1941. He landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day.

S/Sgt Janney L. Pope first buried at Temporary American Military Cemetery Margraten, Netherlands Block J, Row 3, Grave 66.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Ellen Mulder, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1940 Census / U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Richard D. Kibler