Joseph I. Hickey

Company A 1st Battalion 22nd Infantry

4th Infantry Division

KIA 02/04/1945

Joseph Irvin Hickey was born in Jeffersonville, Clark County, Indiana on April 4, 1920.

Prior to entering military service he was employed by the Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Company
in Jeffersonville, Indiana.

He was drafted into the Army on June 20, 1944, at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana.
He listed his home of residence as Clark County, Indiana and his civilian occupation as Textile manufacturing,
N.E.C. (Not Elsewhere Classified). He had completed two years of High School and was married.
His religion was listed as Catholic.

He was assigned to Company A from the 14th Replacement Depot on December 26, 1944.

Private Hickey was killed in action in Germany, during the attack on Prüm, February 4, 1945.

Joseph I. Hickey was originally buried in the temporary U.S. Military Cemetery,
Foy Cemetery, Bastogne, Belgium in Block A Row 12 Grave 292 and his remains were transferred
and buried at Henri-Chappele in the 1947-1949 time frame, when the temporary cemeteries were shut down.

Burial:
Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial
Henri-Chapelle
Liege, Belgium
Plot F Row 12 Grave 18

Grave marker for Joseph I. Hickey

Photo by Des Philippet from the Find A Grave website

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