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Personal info

Full name
PFLEGER, Roy Arnold
Date of birth
14 April 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Bangor, Northampton County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Lower Mount Bethel, Northampton County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
12051283
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
C Company,
111th Engineer Combat Battalion,
36th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
21 January 1945
Place of death
Bischweiler, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Tablets of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Conrad J. Pfleger (father)
Edith M. (Weaver) Pfleger (mother)
Miriam Pfleger (sister)
Marion Pfleger (sister)

More information

Pfc Roy A. Pfleger was a blaster and powderman before he volunteered for the Army of the United States in Northampton, Pennsylvania on 17 February 1942.

He is remembered at the East Banor Cemetery in East Bangor, Northampton, Pennsylvania.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, https://36th-id.frb.io, https://texasmilitaryforcesmuseum.org/, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / WWII Draft Cards Young Men / My Family Tree / 1930/1940 Census / Pennsylvania Veteran Compensation Application Files WWII, www.findagrave.com – Blazen36 / Spirit Walker

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Misty / Spirit Walker