PFC
Dempsey Hobbs
Aged 19, fallen January 27, 1945
- Unit
- Headquarters Detachment, 3rd Battalion, 222nd Infantry Regiment
- Serial number
- 35882276
- Hometown
- Knox, Kentucky
- Date of death
- January 27, 1945
- Classification
- Killed in action
- Burial
- Bingham Cemetery, Barbourville, Kentucky
Private First Class Dempsey Hobbs, serial number 35882276, of Knox, Kentucky, served with the Headquarters Detachment of the 3rd Battalion, 222nd Infantry Regiment in the 42nd Infantry Division, the Rainbow Division. He was killed in action on January 27, 1945, at the age of 19. He is buried at Bingham Cemetery, Barbourville, Kentucky.
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