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Personal info

Full name
LIGHTFOOT, David
Date of birth
27 May 1907
Age
37
Place of birth
Swissvale, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Dover, Tuscarawas County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
33715616
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
10th Armored Infantry Battalion,
4th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
1 December 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Fenetrange, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
B 33 29

Immediate family

Members
Joseph Lightfoot Sr. (father)
Mary J. (Rudge) Lightfoot (mother)
Albert Lightfoot (brother)
Ernest L. Lightfoot (brother)
Mary Lightfoot (sister)
Joseph Lightfoot (brother)
Maud Lightfoot (sister)
Emily Lightfoot (sister)
Martha J. Lightfoot (sister)
Ruth Lightfoot (sister)
Naomi Lightfoot (sister)
John Lightfoot (brother)
Margaret (Greene) Lightfoot (wife)

More information

Pvt David Lightfoot enlisted in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on 5 January 1944.

He was initially buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Hochfelden, France.

Source of information: AndrĂ© Koch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1910/1920/1930 Census / Yarlett_2016 / Headstone and Interment Record / Pennsylvania, Birth Records, 1906-1908

Photo source:
Peter Schouteten, www.findagrave.com