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Personal info

Full name
LEE, Lloyd T
Date of birth
1917
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Red Ceder, Dunn County, Wisconsin
Hometown
Red Ceder, Dunn County, Wisconsin

Military service

Service number
36211980
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
HQ Company,
180th Infantry Regiment,
45th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
10 September 1944
Place of death
Near Clerval, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 5 48

Immediate family

Members
Christian M. Lee (father)
Sophia S. (Olson) Lee (mother)
Myrtle A. Lee (sister)
Jennie O. Lee (sister)
Clifford S. Lee (brother)
Joy R. Lee (brother)
Gladys V. Lee (sister)
Clarence L. Lee (brother)

More information

Pfc Lloyd T. Lee attended high school for four years before he enlisted in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 6 June 1941. He was sent overseas in May 1943.

He participated in the campaigns in North Africa, Sicily and Italy, before his unit was sent to France.

He was awarded the Purple Heart Medal a first time for wounds received in Nort Africa on 22 September 1943. After a short stay in a hospital, re rejoined his unit on 16 October of the same year.

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

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Wolbert Family Tree, http://www.45thdivision.org
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy, The Dunn County News 4 October 1944