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Personal info

Full name
HOWARD, Leroy
Date of birth
1921
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Archer County, Texas
Hometown
Holliday, Archer County, Texas

Military service

Service number
38301877
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
G Company,
2nd Battalion,
398th Infantry Regiment,
100th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
20 November 1944
Place of death
Clairupt, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 38 34

Immediate family

Members
Joseph M. Howard (father)
Isabelle M. (Ellis) Howard (mother)
Annie C. Howard (sister)
Cynthia I. Howard (sister)
Hixie M. Howard (sister)
Rosa Howard (sister)
Joseph M. Howard (brother)
Gladys E. (Williams) Howard (wife)
Lee A. Howard (daughter)

More information

Pfc Leroy Howard worked on a farm before he enlisted in Tyler, Texas on 30 October 1942. He was sent overseas on 26 October 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in his back.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files / Gerken Family Tree, www.marshallfoundation.org - Company list, www.findagrave.com – James Durham, www.newspapers.com – Wichita Falls Times - 31 December 1944

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Andy