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Personal info

Full name
CAMPBELL, Jack Lesly Sr
Date of birth
20 April 1918
Age
26
Place of birth
Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska
Hometown
Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska

Military service

Service number
37736745
Rank
Private First Class
Function
Rifleman
Unit
C Company,
1st Battalion,
317th Infantry Regiment,
80th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
10 October 1944
Place of death
unknown

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
B 24 12

Immediate family

Members
Clyde D. Campbell (father)
Martha J. (Welton) Campbell (mother)
Arthur E. Campbell (brother)
Louis I. Campbell (brother)
Doris A. Campbell (sister)
Wilma L. Campbell (sister)
Marjorie (Hannibal) Campbell (wife)
Jary L. Campbell (daughter)
Jack L. Campbell Jr. (son)

More information

Pfc Jack L. Campbell Sr. attended 4 years at the technical high school and was a compositor at the Ohama Printing Company before he enlisted at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas on 13 March 1944

He was sent overseas in September 1944.
He was reported seriously wounded in action on 10 October and brought to the 16th Field Hospital where he died of his wounds.
On 10 October, C Company was holding defensive positions one mile east of Bratte.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com -1920/1930/1940 Census / U.S. Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. Draft Cards Young Men / Ferry Sloan Family Tree, www.80thDivision.com

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Loren Bender