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Personal info

Full name
CAPPS, Lee Roy
Date of birth
1918
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Tennessee
Hometown
Knox County, Tennessee

Military service

Service number
6964324
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
6th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized)
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
27 March 1945
Place of death
Bechtheim, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
A 12 38

Immediate family

Members
Eric H. Capps (father)
Willie P. (Walker) Capps (mother)
Clyde W. Capps (brother)
Boyd A. Capps (brother)

More information

Sgt Lee R. Capps attended high school for three years before he joined the Regular Army at Fort Moultrie, South Carolina on 15 July 1940. He was sent overseas in October 1943.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files / 1930 Census, www.findagrave.com - MAJ Jimmy Cotton
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Astrid, www.newspapers.com - The Knoxville News Sentinel 14 April 1945