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Personal info

Full name
LOYD, Elbert Lee
Date of birth
29 October 1920
Age
23
Place of birth
West Virginia
Hometown
Richmond City, Virginia

Military service

Service number
13065034
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
315th Infantry Regiment,
79th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
12 September 1944
Place of death
Near Neuf-Château, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 14 54

Immediate family

Members
Taylor N. Loyd (father)
Elizabeth J. (Mullins) Loyd (mother)
Leeborn E. Loyd (brother)
Pearl Loyd (sister)
Eva K. Loyd (sister)
Mack M. Loyd (brother)
Pansy Loyd (sister)
Emmett Loyd (brother)
Elihu J. Loyd (brother)
Paul C. Loyd (brother)
Nannie M. Loyd (brother)

More information

Sgt Elbert L. Loyd was employed at the C. C. Cole Hotel Bristol, Virginia before he volunteered for the Army of the United States in Richmond, Virginia on 26 June 1942.

He was killed by an artillery shell.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Andilly, 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 / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Robert Nathaniel Lloyd Family Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, Combat History 79th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com– Albert Ledoux

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