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Personal info

Full name
EDWARDS, Lloyd Marion
Date of birth
19 June 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Valley Junction, Polk County, Iowa
Hometown
Dodge, Union County, Iowa

Military service

Service number
37750370
Rank
Private
Function
Rifleman
Unit
47th Infantry Regiment,
9th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
17 March 1945
Place of death
Remagen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
E 3 55

Immediate family

Members
Frank J. Edwards (father)
Jennie M. (Waddell) Edwards (mother)
Russell L. Edwards (brother)
Ralph F. Edwards (brother)
Claire L. Edwards (sister)
James R. Edwards (brother)
Beverly J. Edwards (sister)
Jean A. Edwards (sister)

More information

Pvt Lloyd M. Edwards enlisted at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas on 19 August 1944.

The Ludendorff bridge, referred to as the Remagen Bridge, collapsed and killed Pvt Edwards and twenty-seven other soldiers.

Source of information: André Koch, Peter Schouteten, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record, www.findagrave - Katie Lou

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Colin E - Des Philippet, Service Records of Union County, Iowa