[courtesy of Teresa LeMaster Fordyce]
Grave marker for Earl R. Jones in Cairo
Masonic Cemetery, Cairo (Ritchie county), West Virginia.
Earl registered for the draft in Parkersburg
(Wood), WV on 30 June 1942 and was inducted into the Army at Fort
Thomas, Newport, KY on 1 November 1942 and was assigned to Company
E, 508th PIR.
Pvt Knight was "Discharged or Retired for
Disability, Line of Duty, Yes; Final Result: Blindness, partial, one
eye" on 11 November 1945. |