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Personal info

Full name
MERCER, Leonard
Date of birth
2 July 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Pulaski County, Kentucky
Hometown
Pulaski County, Kentucky

Military service

Service number
35463889
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
378th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
12 November 1944
Place of death
France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 1 44

Immediate family

Members
Richard T. Mercer (father)
Lizzie (Shaffer) Mercer (mother)
Nellie Mercer (sister)
John Mercer (brother)
Helen Mercer (sister)
Onnie Mercer (sister)
Elsie Mercer (sister)
Martha Mercer (sister)
Lewis Mercer (brother)

More information

Sgt Leonard Mercer worked on a farm before he enlisted in Cincinnati, Ohio on 22 July 1942. He was sent overseas in July 1944.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Carla Mans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930 Census / Kentucky, Birth Index, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php, www.newspapers.com - The Commonwealth - 3 January 1945

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Luxembourg American Cemetery, www.newspapers.com - The Commonwealth - 3 January 1945