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Personal info

Full name
BISER, Leon Charles
Date of birth
19 November 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Waynesboro, Franklin County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Baltimore, Maryland

Military service

Service number
33908988
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
E Company,
2nd Battalion,
254th Infantry Regiment,
63rd Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
8 March 1945
Place of death
Biesheim, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 22 25

Immediate family

Members
Charles W. Biser (father)
Virginia C. (Marker) Biser (mother)
Elsie M. Biser (sister)
Marshall J. Biser (brother)
Helen E. Biser (sister)
Harry C. Biser (brother)
Donald L. Biser (brother)
Herbert H. Biser (brother)
Walter H. Biser (brother)
Dorothy M. Biser (sister)
Sylvia B. (Sherman) Biser (wife)
Leon C. Biser Jr. (son)
Robert Biser (son)

More information

Pvt Leon C. Biser was employed as a carpenter before he enlisted in Baltimore, Maryland on 4 September 1944.

He was killed by small arms fire in his shoulder.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com - Leon C. Biser, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Bliser Stephens Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.63rdinfdiv.com, www.findagrave.com - Cari Dobbs, 1950 US Census
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy