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Personal info

Full name
SPOONER, Joseph Harold
Date of birth
15 March 1912
Age
32
Place of birth
Clinton County, New York
Hometown
Keeseville, Clinton County, New York

Military service

Service number
42115121
Rank
Private
Function
Rifleman
Unit
A Company,
1st Battalion,
116th Infantry Regiment,
29th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
1 December 1944
Place of death
Koslar, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
A 21 28

Immediate family

Members
Joseph Spooner (father)
Malvina Spooner (mother)
Mildred Spooner (sister)
Georgianna G. (Crooks) Spooner (wife)
Maynard Spooner (son)
Doris Spooner (daughter)
Shirley Spooner (daughter)
Donald Spooner (son)
Harlan Spooner (son)
Gerald Spooner (son)
Ronald L. Spooner (son)

More information

Pvt Joseph Spooner attended the Our Lady of Victory Acedemy there and was employed by the department of public works in Plattsburgh.

He enlisted on 8 April 1944 at Fort Dix, New Jersey. He joined his unit from a replacement depot on 25 October 1944.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Family Tree / 1930 Census / Headstone and Interment Record, http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org - Plattsburgh Press-Republican - The Lake Placid News

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Hans Wijnands