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Personal info

Full name
CONWAY, David Leonard
Date of birth
30 March 1917
Age
28
Place of birth
Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Essex County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31297444
Rank
Corporal
Function
Squad Leader
Unit
C Company,
1st Battalion,
38th Infantry Regiment,
2nd Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
14 April 1945
Place of death
Weissenfels, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
B 2 31

Immediate family

Members
Denis Conway (father)
Elizabeth (Boner) Conway (mother)
David J. Conway (brother)
Philip F. Conway (brother)
Marion (Dougherty) Conway (wife)
Geraldine Conway (daughter)
Kathleen A. Morenski (granddaughter)
John D. Morenski (grandson)

More information

Cpl Conway worked in a machine shop.

He enlisted in Boston, Massachusetts on 15 February 1943.

He was killed in action during a firefight.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Gerry Conway Morenski (daughter), www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, http://www.awon.org/fathers1.html

Photo source: http://www.awon.org/awconway.html, Peter Schouteten, Gerry Conway Morenski