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Personal info

Full name
JACOBS, Francis Lewis
Date of birth
20 October 1915
Age
29
Place of birth
Victor, Ontario County, New York
Hometown
Victor, Ontario County, New York

Military service

Service number
12208344
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
110th Infantry Regiment,
28th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
8 November 1944
Place of death
Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
A 4 36

Immediate family

Members
Homer B. Jacobs (father)
Catharine N. (Gugelman) Jacobs (mother)
Margaret J. Jacobs (sister)
Charles J. Jacobs (brother)
Howard P. Jacobs (brother)
Homer V. Jacobs (brother)

More information

Francis Jacobs attended Victor High School and worked for the Victor Insulating Corporation before he enlisted on 30 November 1942 in Rochester, New York. He was sent overseas in October 1943.

He died of wounds, sustained two days earlier.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.findagrave.com, www.newspapers.com - Democrat and Chronicle, www.ancestry.com - Family Trees

Photo source: Peter Schouteten