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Personal info

Full name
LELAND, Allen Frederick
Date of birth
15 June 1911
Age
33
Place of birth
Carlisle, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31389761
Rank
Corporal
Function
unknown
Unit
66th Armored Regiment,
2nd Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
2 March 1945
Place of death
Uerdungen-Krefeld, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
E 11 14

Immediate family

Members
Melvin A. Leland (father)
Grace V. (Emery) Leland (mother)
Douglas M. Leland (brother)
Howard Leland (brother)
Harold A. Leland (brother)
Arthur M. Leland (brother)
Chester A. Leland (brother)
Raymond E. Leland (brother)
Dorothy G. Leland (sister)
Bernice C. Leland (sister)
Everett G. Leland (brother)
Warren F. Leland (brother)
Ruth D. Leland (sister)
Vernon S. Leland (brother)
Marshall E. Leland (brother)
Kenneth P. Leland (brother)
Yvonne E. (Daigle) Leland (wife)

More information

Cpl Allen F. Leland worked in a machine shop before he enlisted at Fort Devens, Massachusetts on 11 August 1943.

He has a memorial stone at the Woodbine Cemetery in Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

His brothers and sister Howard, Harold, Raymond and Dorothy died as babies.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - various family trees / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org - After Action Report 66th Armored Regiment

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.findagrave.com - Shirley White