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corriehac · Jul 30, 2006, 06:10 PM

My husband lost a great uncle in hatton france named joe owens what happened in hatton this mans remains were never recovered he would love to meet someone who might have known him very little has come up on the internet.

colbtech · Jul 30, 2006, 11:36 PM

I presume he was in the armed forces? If so, in the UK there is the CWGC which detail the whereabouts of all the graves, I am sure that other countries have a similar organisation.
Alternatively you could start with whichever armed force he was with?
How about the Veterans association (www.va.gov )

Good Luck

corriehac · Jul 31, 2006, 04:21 AM

79th infantry divioson 315th regament

colbtech · Jul 31, 2006, 05:13 AM

OK, same thing still applies. If you ggogle "79th infantry division 315th regiment" , you get lots of hits.

www.libertyroad.com/ww2usvets/79th/page5.html
http://www.army.mil/CMH-pg/lineage/b...gt/0315rgt.htm

These show the area of conflict in WW2. As it so happens it is quite close to me. I live in the channel islands about 40 miles from Cherbourg and Brittany. I would still be inclined to start with Dept of Defence, they are bound to have a public relations dept that will assist you in locating surviving members.

Must be getting thin on the ground now though

Try this chap: http://www.military.com/HomePage/UnitPageBulletinBoard/1,13492,100050|774937|M,00.html

colbtech · Jul 31, 2006, 08:44 AM

I did a little checking and here are some contacts that may be able to help or at least point you in the right direction.

The National Personnel Records Center
Attn: Military Personnel Records (State Army / Navy or Whatever)
9700 Page Avenue
St. Louis
MO 63132-5100
USA

Tel 314 263 3901 fax 314 538 4175

You could try the VA (Veterans Administration) they will have record of things like applications for benefits etc

Veterans Administration
810 Vermont Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20420

There are centers for Military History in the U.S. like:

US Army Center of Military History
1099 14th St NW
Washington DC 20005-3402

corriehac · Nov 20, 2006, 05:30 PM

Thank you this meens so much to my husband, is grateful for your replies. He loves to study world war two because of his uncle dying in hatton france. This will be a lot of help to him . Thank once again. Also we have found that his uncle is located on the tablets of the missing Epinol france Joeseph H. Owens he was a tech sgt. 315 infantry reg. 79th infantry division. Company H. This is all the info we have been able to gather so far. We have not yet met anyone that new him. We are keeping are finger crossed though time is passing by.