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Personal info

Full name
VILLEMURE, Leonard Joseph
Date of birth
5 February 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Saint-Elie-de-Caxton, Quebec, Canada
Hometown
Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut

Military service

Service number
31064153
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
Reconnaissance Company,
703rd Tank Destroyer Battalion
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
1 September 1944
Place of death
Near Bucille, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 6 22

Immediate family

Members
Hormistad Villemure (father)
Meline (Philibert) Villemure (mother)
Clodina Villemure (sister)
Enuria Villemure (sister)
Diana Villemure (sister)
Leorika Villemure (sister)
Lorette Villemure (sister)
Theresa Villemure (sister)
Arthur Villemure (brother)
Edith Villemure (sister)

More information

Pvt Leonard J. Villemure was a salesman at Fulton Market before he enlisted at Fort Devens, Massachusetts on 11 February 1942.

He was first bruied at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Solers, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / 1920/1940 Census, www.findagrave.com - Eric Ackerman, www.tankdestroyer.net
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy