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Personal info

Full name
RILEY, Paul Frances
Date of birth
25 December 1913
Age
30
Place of birth
Ohio
Hometown
Cuyahoga County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
35927508
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
I Company,
3rd Battalion,
378th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Silver Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
18 November 1944
Place of death
Pont du Sauvage
Longeville-lès-Metz, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 25 36

Immediate family

Members
Thomas A. Riley (father)
Eva K. (Imber) Riley (mother)
Thomas A. Riley (brother)
Charles A. Riley (brother)
Richard J. Riley (brother)
Joan Riley (wife)
Thomas Riley (son)

More information

Pvt Paul F. Riley graduated from East High School and was employed at Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company.

He enlisted in Cleveland, Ohio on 27 January 1944.

On the order of General Kittel, on the morning of 18 November 1944, the Pont du Sauvage was blown up at the moment men of I Company began to cross it. Fifteen men were killed.

For his action that day, Pvt Riley was awarded the Silver Star Medal posthumously.

Together with the other killed members of his unit, he is remembered on a plaque at the bridge.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Limey, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Riley Kasten Family Tree, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php
Photo source: https://www.uswarmemorials.org/html/monument_details.php?SiteID=1167&MemID=1526