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Personal info

Full name
SPROUL, Riley Lowell
Date of birth
2 August 1910
Age
34
Place of birth
Bruning, Thayer County, Nebraska
Hometown
Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
36765766
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
15th Infantry Regiment,
3rd Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Died of Injuries
Date of death
15 February 1945
Place of death
unknown

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 40 24

Immediate family

Members
Clyde T. Sproul (father)
Myrtle E. ( Fullerton) Sproul (mother)
Kenneth Sproul (brother)
Robert M. Sproul (brother)
Erna F. Sproul (sister)
Beth Sproul (sister)
Dorothy A. (Groth) Sproul (wife)

More information

Pfc Riley L. Sproul graduated from Daykin High School in 1928 and attended Peru State Teachers College for one year. He was salesman employed by the Cudaly Packing Company.

He enlisted on 31 August 1943 in Maywood, Illinois and was sent overseas in March 1944.
In August 1944 he was wounded by artillery shell fragments.
In February 1945 he was wounded by artillery shell fragments at the lower abdomen and leg. He died from a lung infarction.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - 1930 – 1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. Draft Cards Young Men/ US WW2 Hospital Admission Cards, History 3rd Infantry Division WWII

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy