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Personal info

Full name
LOFTY, Alex Hawkins Jr
Date of birth
1919
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Marion County, Tennessee
Hometown
Jasper, Marion County, Tennessee

Military service

Service number
14007033
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
607th Tank Destroyer Battalion
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
8 September 1944
Place of death
Near Trieux, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 21 70

Immediate family

Members
Alexander H. Lofty (father)
Nola G. (Moizer) Lofty (mother)
Irene A. Lofty (sister)
Gurna C. Lofty (brother)
Ray L. Lofty (brother)
Jennie V. Lofty (sister)
Clifford Lofty (brother)
Dorthy Lofty (sister)
Amy L. Lofty (sister)
Hattie (Andrews) Lofty (wife)

More information

Sgt Alexander H. Lofty Jr. attended Marion County High School and was overseas since May 1944.

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

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Brummett Billingsley Family Tree, www.findagrave.com - Albert Ledoux, www.tankdestroyer.net, https://www.etvma.org/veterans/alex-h-lofty-jr-9702/
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy