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Personal info

Full name
COFFEY, James Claude
Date of birth
5 July 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Oil Valley, Wayne County, Kentucky
Hometown
Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky

Military service

Service number
35705812
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
G Company,
2nd Battalion,
398th Infantry Regiment,
100th Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
19 December 1944
Place of death
France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
D 46 27

Immediate family

Members
James N. Coffey (father)
Dicey A. (Roberts) Coffey (mother)
Alma M. Coffey (sister)
Alta M. Coffey (sister)
Robert C. Coffey (brother)
Clyde Coffey (brother)

More information

Pfc James C. Coffey was employed by the Indianapolis Bleaching Company before he enlisted in Louisville, Kentucky on 6 July 1943.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in his chest.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files / Pratt Family Tree, www.marshallfoundation.org - Company list, www.findagrave.com – MAJ Jimmy Cotton / Carolyn Beard

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Eddie Liams / Carolyn Beard