Oliver Moon

Company D 1st Battalion 22nd Infantry

4th Infantry Division

KIA 06/14/1944

Oliver Moon was born in Georgia on August 11, 1916.

He enlisted in the Regular Army on February 25, 1940 at Danville, Kentucky.
(The application for his grave marker gives an enlistment year of 1937.)

His home of residence was listed as Lawrenceville, Gwinnett County, Georgia.
His education level was listed as Post-graduate. His religion was listed as Protestant.

He was listed as a Private First Class and a cook in the U.S. Army at Fort McPherson, Georgia
on the May 1940 U.S. Census.

He was awarded the Good Conduct Medal as a Private in Company D
in General Orders No. 14 Headquarters 22nd Infantry dated December 31, 1943
at Fort Jackson, South Carolina.

Private Moon was killed in action in Normandy, France on June 14, 1944
near the Quineville Ridge.

Decorations of Oliver Moon

Oliver Moon was buried in the temporary U.S. Military Cemetery,
Sainte Mere-Eglise #1 at Carentan, France and some time later
his remains were returned to the United States where he was
reinterred in Georgia.

Burial:
First Baptist Cemetery
Sugar Hill (Gwinnett County)
Gwinnett County
Georgia

Grave marker for Oliver Moon

Photo by Swangirl from the Find A Grave website

Top portrait of Oliver Moon done by Nora Neese Martin
posted by Kenneth Hughes on Ancestry.com

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