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Personal info

Full name
LEGGETT, Clyde Austin
Date of birth
18 October 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Dyer, Gibson County, Tennessee
Hometown
Humboldt, Gibson County, Tennessee

Military service

Service number
34508573
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
71st Infantry Regiment,
44th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
5 November 1944
Place of death
Near Nancy, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 33 40

Immediate family

Members
Clyde W. Leggett (father)
Josie I. (Gibson) Leggett (mother)
C. W. Leggett (brother)
Maynard Leggett (brother)
Betty C. Leggett (sister)
Woodrow Leggett (brother)
Clara F. Leggett (sister)
Marvin E. Leggett (brother)
Virginia E. Leggett (sister)
Ellen M. Leggett (sister)
James A. Leggett (brother)
Penny Leggett (sister)

More information

Sgt Clyde A. Leggett was employed at the Leggett Grocery before he enlisted at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia on 28 January 1943.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930/1940 Census / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy