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Personal info

Full name
JOYCE, George Patrick
Date of birth
17 February 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Pittston, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33885050
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
71st Infantry Regiment,
44th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
24 November 1944
Place of death
Rauwiller, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 43 7

Immediate family

Members
Patrick F. Joyce (father)
Mary V. (Hemchcliff) Joyce (mother)
Joseph Joyce (brother)
Mary P. Joyce (sister)
Frances Joyce (sister)
Anna R. T. (Mulcahy) Joyce (wife)
Patrick Joyce (son)

More information

Pvt George P. Joyce was a welder and flame cutter before he enlisted at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland on 21 April 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments to his buttock and hip.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Pennsylvania Veteran Compensation Application Files WWII / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Pennsylvania Marriages / 1930 Census / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy