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Personal info

Full name
ELLISON, Leroy Manford
Date of birth
3 February 1924
Age
21
Place of birth
Weirton, Hancock County, West Virginia
Hometown
Hamilton County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
35788888
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
A Company,
1st Battalion,
324th Infantry Regiment,
44th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
2 April 1945
Place of death
Near Grossauheim, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
K 39 37

Immediate family

Members
Leslie E. Ellison (father)
Della M. (Thornton) Ellison (mother)
Lucille I. Ellison (sister)
William R. Ellison (brother)

More information

Pvt Leroy M. Ellison attended high school for four years was employed at the Lunkenheimer Value Company before he enlisted in Cincinnati, Ohio on 13 February 1943.
He was killed by artillery shell fragments to his head.

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