Joseph R. Paul Jr.
Rank: Private First Class, U.S. Army
Serial: 32205179
Unit: 155th Infantry Regiment, 31st Infantry Division
Entered service from: New Jersey
Died:
Buried at: Locustwood Cemetery, Route 70 & Cooper Landing Road, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Awards: Purple Heart
Biography
Private First Class Joseph R. Paul Jr. of Audubon, New Jersey.
Private First Class Joseph R. Paul Jr. was born on April 5, 1920, to Joseph R. and Ethel Paul of 255 South Logan Avenue, Audubon, New Jersey. A 1938 graduate of Camden County Vocational and Technical School in Pennsauken, he worked at the RCA-Victor plant in Camden before his induction into the Army in December of 1941. He was sent overseas in February 1944, assigned to the 155th Infantry Regiment, 31st Infantry Division, in the South Pacific.
Private First Class Joseph Paul Jr. died of wounds on the island of Morotai in the South Pacific on October 31, 1944. He was 24 years old. Joseph Paul was brought home in 1948 aboard the USAT George W.G. Boyce and was buried at Locustwood Cemetery in Delaware Township (present-day Cherry Hill), New Jersey, on June 26, 1948.
He was survived by his parents; his brother Harvey L. Paul of Audubon; his sister, Mrs. Ethel L. Jackson of Almonesson, New Jersey; and his grandparents, the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey L. Jacoby of Mt. Ephraim, New Jersey.
Burial Services Set For Pfc. Joseph Paul
Camden Courier-Post —
Services for Pfc. Joseph R. Paul Jr., of 255 South Logan avenue, Audubon, will be held tomorrow at 1 p.m. in Foster’s funeral home, 250 White Horse pike, Audubon. Burial will be in Locustwood Memorial park.
Private Paul was killed in action Oct. 31, 1944, on Morotia island, at the age of 24. A graduate of Camden Vocational school in 1938, he was employed by RCA Victor till his induction into the army in December, 1941.
Surviving are his parents, Joseph P. Sr. and Ethel; a brother Harvey L. Audubon; a sister, Mrs. Ethel L. Jackson, Almonesson, and his grandparents, the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey L. Jacoby, Mt. Ephraim.
Photos
Audubon’s tribute to those who served in World War II.