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Personal info

Full name
LLOYD, Carl Benjamin
Date of birth
25 September 1916
Age
28
Place of birth
Pedricktown, Salem County, New Jersey
Hometown
Oldmans, Salem County, New Jersey

Military service

Service number
32268384
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
C Company,
609th Tank Destroyer Battalion,
2nd Platoon
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
24 February 1945
Place of death
Kaselmuhle, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 9 54

Immediate family

Members
William B. Lloyd (father)
Edna A. (Dietrich) Lloyd (mother)
William B. Lloyd (brother)
Charles W. Lloyd (brother)
Mary E. Lloyd (sister)
Elsie M. (Hough) Lloyd (wife)

More information

Pfc Carl B. Lloyd was a driver before he enlisted at Fort Dix, New Jersey on 25 May 1942.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments to his stomach.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Lloyd Family Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admissions Card, www.tankdestroyer.net, www.findagrave.com - MAJ Jimmy Cotton
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery