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Personal info

Full name
LEONARD, Gerald Winfrey
Date of birth
13 January 1916
Age
29
Place of birth
Wake County, North Carolina
Hometown
Neuse, Wake County, North Carolina

Military service

Service number
34305965
Rank
Corporal
Function
unknown
Unit
394th Infantry Regiment,
99th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
3 March 1945
Place of death
North of Cologne, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
D 11 51

Immediate family

Members
Mandie (Smith) Leonard (mother)

More information

Cpl Gerald W. Leonard enlisted at Fort Bragg North Carolina, on 5 June 1942.

He attended high school for 1 year and was a landscaping laborer before he enlisted.

Cpl Gerald W Leonard is remembered at the Falls Community Cemetery in Falls, Wake County, North Carolina.

He was first buried at Block WWW, Row 3, Grave 51.

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 Draft Cards Young Men

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet / Cherie Atkinson Clark