2LT Jones, Benjamin Edwin Jr
Service number: O-537965
Age: 25
Born: February 3, 1919, Bismarck, Burleigh County, North Dakota
Hometown: Burleigh County, North Dakota
Family:
Benjamin Edwin Jones Sr. (father)
Florence Agnes (nee Straw) Jones (mother)
Frederic E. Jones (brother)
Donald Straw Jones (brother)
Florence Gwendolyn Jones/Sollenbarger (sister)
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Function: Platoon Commander
Battalion: 38th Armored Infantry Battalion
Division: 7th Armored Division
Company: C Company
Date of death: December 3, 1944
Status: Died Of Wounds as a P.O.W.
Place of death: Dorsten, Kreis Recklinghausen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Spot: POW Hospital of Stalag VI J
Awards:
★ World War II Victory Medal
★ Prisoner of War Medal
★ Purple Heart
★ Combat Infantryman Badge
★ Marksmanship Badge
★ American Campaign Medal
★ Army Good Conduct Medal
★ European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign
Grave number: Plot B, Row 42, Grave 27
Cemetery: Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial, Neuville-en-Condroz,
Arrondissement de Liège, Liège, Belgium
Date of enlistment:
Other information:
The following from the 7th Armored Division archives.
2LT Jones died on the operating table in German Prisoner of war Stalag VI-J during surgery to amputate his leg which was severely wounded during a fire fight with a machine gun nest.
His unit was sent out in a night attack on 6-7 November 1944 in the vicinity of Weert-Meijel. During the attack, the platoon of Lt Jones was separeted from the platoon on his flank. Lt Jones, with one of two of his men, endeavored to regain contact, and while doing so were taken under fire by a bypassed enemy machine gun outside Ospel. All of the party were either killed or wounded, and Lt Jones himself, sustained such serious wounds that he was unable to move from the spot.
He was taken prisoner and sent by the Germans to Stalag VI-J were he was placed in the prison hospital for treatment. He died on the operating table during surgery to amputate his leg.
He was initially buried in an isolated grave at the cemetery of Holsterhausen-Dorsten, Germany, side by side with two other American soldiers. He was evacuated to Ardennes Cemetery on 11 April 1946 as Unknown X-2539. There he was identified and layed to rest in a temporary grave. He was again disinterred on 28 October 1948 and given his final resting place on 29 March 1949.
Service number: O-537965
Age: 25
Born: February 3, 1919, Bismarck, Burleigh County, North Dakota
Hometown: Burleigh County, North Dakota
Family:
Benjamin Edwin Jones Sr. (father)
Florence Agnes (nee Straw) Jones (mother)
Frederic E. Jones (brother)
Donald Straw Jones (brother)
Florence Gwendolyn Jones/Sollenbarger (sister)
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Function: Platoon Commander
Battalion: 38th Armored Infantry Battalion
Division: 7th Armored Division
Company: C Company
Date of death: December 3, 1944
Status: Died Of Wounds as a P.O.W.
Place of death: Dorsten, Kreis Recklinghausen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Spot: POW Hospital of Stalag VI J
Awards:
★ World War II Victory Medal
★ Prisoner of War Medal
★ Purple Heart
★ Combat Infantryman Badge
★ Marksmanship Badge
★ American Campaign Medal
★ Army Good Conduct Medal
★ European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign
Grave number: Plot B, Row 42, Grave 27
Cemetery: Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial, Neuville-en-Condroz,
Arrondissement de Liège, Liège, Belgium
Date of enlistment:
Other information:
The following from the 7th Armored Division archives.
2LT Jones died on the operating table in German Prisoner of war Stalag VI-J during surgery to amputate his leg which was severely wounded during a fire fight with a machine gun nest.
His unit was sent out in a night attack on 6-7 November 1944 in the vicinity of Weert-Meijel. During the attack, the platoon of Lt Jones was separeted from the platoon on his flank. Lt Jones, with one of two of his men, endeavored to regain contact, and while doing so were taken under fire by a bypassed enemy machine gun outside Ospel. All of the party were either killed or wounded, and Lt Jones himself, sustained such serious wounds that he was unable to move from the spot.
He was taken prisoner and sent by the Germans to Stalag VI-J were he was placed in the prison hospital for treatment. He died on the operating table during surgery to amputate his leg.
He was initially buried in an isolated grave at the cemetery of Holsterhausen-Dorsten, Germany, side by side with two other American soldiers. He was evacuated to Ardennes Cemetery on 11 April 1946 as Unknown X-2539. There he was identified and layed to rest in a temporary grave. He was again disinterred on 28 October 1948 and given his final resting place on 29 March 1949.
2LT Jones, Benjamin Edwin Jr
Service number: O-537965
Age: 25
Born: February 3, 1919, Bismarck, Burleigh County, North Dakota
Hometown: Burleigh County, North Dakota
Family:
Benjamin Edwin Jones Sr. (father)
Florence Agnes (nee Straw) Jones (mother)
Frederic E. Jones (brother)
Donald Straw Jones (brother)
Florence Gwendolyn Jones/Sollenbarger (sister)
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Function: Platoon Commander
Battalion: 38th Armored Infantry Battalion
Division: 7th Armored Division
Company: C Company
Date of death: December 3, 1944
Status: Died Of Wounds as a P.O.W.
Place of death: Dorsten, Kreis Recklinghausen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Spot: POW Hospital of Stalag VI J
Awards:
★ World War II Victory Medal
★ Prisoner of War Medal
★ Purple Heart
★ Combat Infantryman Badge
★ Marksmanship Badge
★ American Campaign Medal
★ Army Good Conduct Medal
★ European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign
Grave number: Plot B, Row 42, Grave 27
Cemetery: Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial, Neuville-en-Condroz,
Arrondissement de Liège, Liège, Belgium
Date of enlistment:
Other information:
The following from the 7th Armored Division archives.
2LT Jones died on the operating table in German Prisoner of war Stalag VI-J during surgery to amputate his leg which was severely wounded during a fire fight with a machine gun nest.
His unit was sent out in a night attack on 6-7 November 1944 in the vicinity of Weert-Meijel. During the attack, the platoon of Lt Jones was separeted from the platoon on his flank. Lt Jones, with one of two of his men, endeavored to regain contact, and while doing so were taken under fire by a bypassed enemy machine gun outside Ospel. All of the party were either killed or wounded, and Lt Jones himself, sustained such serious wounds that he was unable to move from the spot.
He was taken prisoner and sent by the Germans to Stalag VI-J were he was placed in the prison hospital for treatment. He died on the operating table during surgery to amputate his leg.
He was initially buried in an isolated grave at the cemetery of Holsterhausen-Dorsten, Germany, side by side with two other American soldiers. He was evacuated to Ardennes Cemetery on 11 April 1946 as Unknown X-2539. There he was identified and layed to rest in a temporary grave. He was again disinterred on 28 October 1948 and given his final resting place on 29 March 1949.
Service number: O-537965
Age: 25
Born: February 3, 1919, Bismarck, Burleigh County, North Dakota
Hometown: Burleigh County, North Dakota
Family:
Benjamin Edwin Jones Sr. (father)
Florence Agnes (nee Straw) Jones (mother)
Frederic E. Jones (brother)
Donald Straw Jones (brother)
Florence Gwendolyn Jones/Sollenbarger (sister)
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Function: Platoon Commander
Battalion: 38th Armored Infantry Battalion
Division: 7th Armored Division
Company: C Company
Date of death: December 3, 1944
Status: Died Of Wounds as a P.O.W.
Place of death: Dorsten, Kreis Recklinghausen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Spot: POW Hospital of Stalag VI J
Awards:
★ World War II Victory Medal
★ Prisoner of War Medal
★ Purple Heart
★ Combat Infantryman Badge
★ Marksmanship Badge
★ American Campaign Medal
★ Army Good Conduct Medal
★ European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign
Grave number: Plot B, Row 42, Grave 27
Cemetery: Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial, Neuville-en-Condroz,
Arrondissement de Liège, Liège, Belgium
Date of enlistment:
Other information:
The following from the 7th Armored Division archives.
2LT Jones died on the operating table in German Prisoner of war Stalag VI-J during surgery to amputate his leg which was severely wounded during a fire fight with a machine gun nest.
His unit was sent out in a night attack on 6-7 November 1944 in the vicinity of Weert-Meijel. During the attack, the platoon of Lt Jones was separeted from the platoon on his flank. Lt Jones, with one of two of his men, endeavored to regain contact, and while doing so were taken under fire by a bypassed enemy machine gun outside Ospel. All of the party were either killed or wounded, and Lt Jones himself, sustained such serious wounds that he was unable to move from the spot.
He was taken prisoner and sent by the Germans to Stalag VI-J were he was placed in the prison hospital for treatment. He died on the operating table during surgery to amputate his leg.
He was initially buried in an isolated grave at the cemetery of Holsterhausen-Dorsten, Germany, side by side with two other American soldiers. He was evacuated to Ardennes Cemetery on 11 April 1946 as Unknown X-2539. There he was identified and layed to rest in a temporary grave. He was again disinterred on 28 October 1948 and given his final resting place on 29 March 1949.
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