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Personal info

Full name
LEE, Wayford
Date of birth
27 April 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
Hometown
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas

Military service

Service number
38532757
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
179th Infantry Regiment,
45th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
22 September 1944
Place of death
Archettes, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 8 72

Immediate family

Members
David M. Lee (father)
Mary J. (Tidwell) Lee (mother)
Carle L. Lee (sister)
Grayce W. Lee (sister)
Ruby J. Lee (sister)
David E. Lee (brother)
Robert E. Lee (brother)
James T. Lee (brother)
Gerald S. Lee (brother)
Bernice Lee (wife)

More information

Pvt Wayford Lee attended high school for 1 year before he enlisted in Dallas, Texas on 12 August 1943.

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 / Bastian and Moore Family Tree / 1930 Census / 1940 Census, http://www.45thdivision.org, www.findagrave.com
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy