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Personal info

Full name
DOYLE, George C
Date of birth
21 June 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Yonkers, Westchester County, New York
Hometown
East Rutherford, Bergen County, New Jersey

Military service

Service number
12206362
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
A Company,
1st Battalion,
180th Infantry Regiment,
45th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
25 September 1944
Place of death
Near Dogneville, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 21 34

Immediate family

Members
George F. Doyle (father)
Louise M. Doyle (mother)

More information

Pfc George C. Doyle attended high school for four years and was a shipping and receiving clerk for the Leslie Company before he joined the Regular Army in Newark, New Jersey on 29 May 1943. He trained at Fort Knox, Kentucky.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Saint-Juan, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record, http://www.45thdivision.org, New York State Birth Index
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy, The Herald-News (Passaic, New Jersey) · 2 November 1944