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Personal info

Full name
WYLDES, Howard Parker
Date of birth
30 May 1910
Age
34
Place of birth
Mendota, Putnam County, Missouri
Hometown
Numa, Appanoose County, Iowa

Military service

Service number
37673491
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
315th Infantry Regiment,
79th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
11 December 1944
Place of death
Bischwiller, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
F 2 22

Immediate family

Members
Jessie E. Wyldes (father)
Arrilla R. (Patterson) Wyldes (mother)
Sina Wyldes (sister)
Leon Wyldes (brother)
Jesse C. Wyldes (brother)
Anna B. Wyldes (sister)
Percy E. Wyldes (brother)
Rosa L. (Barber) Wyldes (wife)
Howard Wyldes (son)
Donnie L. Wyldes (son)

More information

Pvt Howard P. Wyldes was employed at the Rock Island Rail Road before he enlisted at Camp Dodge, Iowa on 19 June 1943.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Hochfelden, France.

His brother Jesse C. Wyldes is remembered on the Tablets of the Missing at Epinal American Cemetery, 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 / Stone Family Tree, Combat History 79th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com - Alberta Knotts / Rebecca Calman
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