John C. Agee

Company A 1st Battalion 22nd Infantry

4th Infantry Division

KIA 06/10/1944

John C. Agee was born in Illinois on January 9, 1923.

(The application for his grave marker gives his birth year as 1922.)

His religion was listed as Protestant.

His Army serial number indicates he enlisted in the Regular Army prior to the Selective Service Act of 1940.

The application for his grave marker indicates he entered the Army on June 13, 1940.

The date of his assignment to the 22nd Infantry is unknown but he was with the Regiment
at least by December 1942 as his name is listed in a Company roster on a menu for the
Christmas Dinner of Company A 22nd Infantry at Camp Gordon, Georgia in December 1942. *

He was awarded the Good Conduct Medal in Headquarters 22nd Infantry General Orders No. 5
dated June 8, 1943 at Fort Dix, New Jersey.

Private First Class Agee was listed as missing in action in France on June 8, 1944, during 1st Battalion's attack
against the German coastal batteries at Crisbecq.

The Morning Report for Company A of July 13, 1944 changed his status to killed in action on June 10, 1944.

Article from the Alton Evening Telegraph
Alton, Illinois, Wednesday, June 28, 1944 Page 1

From okmacpaul on Ancestry.com

Note: John C. Agee was not actually in a commando unit; he was in Company A 22nd Infantry.

Decorations of John C. Agee

John C. Agee was buried in the temporary U.S. Military Cemetery
Sainte Mere-Eglise #1 at Carentan, France and in 1948 his remains
were returned to the United States where he was reinterred in Illinois.

Article from the Alton Evening Telegraph
Alton, Illinois, Thursday, July 15, 1948 Page 8

From okmacpaul on Ancestry.com

Note: John C. Agee was not actually in a commando unit; he was in Company A 22nd Infantry.

Burial:
Oakwood Cemetery
Upper Alton
Madison County
Illinois, USA
Plot: Sec. 900

Grave marker for John C. Agee

Photo by Jo Ann from the Find A Grave website

* Courtesy of Julien Woestyn

Top photo of John C. Agee by Jaap Vermeer from the Find A Grave website by way of Julien Woestyn

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