Missing information?

Do you have any additional information you would like to share about a soldier?

Submit

Personal info

Full name
BRYON, Donald Parker
Date of birth
17 December 1920
Age
23
Place of birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York
Hometown
Garden City, Nassau County, New York

Military service

Service number
32895646
Rank
Corporal
Function
unknown
Unit
Cannon Company,
71st Infantry Regiment,
44th Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
26 October 1944
Place of death
Rémabois Forest, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 8 26

Immediate family

Members
David P. Bryon (father)
Edith M. Bryon (mother)
George F. Bryon (brother)
Robert B. Bryon (brother)
Willard C. Bryon (brother)
Evelyn M. Bryon (sister)
Margaret A. Bryon (sister)

More information

Cpl Donald P. Bryon graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School and attended the University of Virginia. He was employed by the Sperry Gyroscope Company.

He enlisted in New York City, New York on 23 April 1943 and was training as an engineer in the A.S.T.P. program before being transferred to an infantry unit. He was sent overseas in September 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in his back.

He is remembered at the All Saints Cemetery in Kingston, New Brunswick, Canada.

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 / 1930/1940 Census / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com – Karen Lovy, www.newspapers.com – The Brooklyn Daily Eagle New York 21 November 1944
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Andy / Angela Pugh / inmand15