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Personal info

Full name
HUNT, John Colquhoun
Date of birth
21 August 1916
Age
28
Place of birth
Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31074901
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
15th Armored Infantry Battalion,
5th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
11 December 1944
Place of death
South of Schafberg, Austria

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
J 7 10

Immediate family

Members
Elizabeth A. Hunt (mother)
Bernice M. Hunt (wife)

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.5ad.org, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record, WWII Draft Card

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Family Collection - courtesy of Marcel van Aalzum