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Personal info

Full name
NEILL, Patrick Howard Galway
Date of birth
19 February 1926
Age
18
Place of birth
Jamestown, Chautauqua County, New York
Hometown
Chautauqua County, New York

Military service

Service number
12238576
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
E Company,
2nd Battalion,
506th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division,
3rd Platoon
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
13 January 1945
Place of death
Foy, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
B 9 34

Immediate family

Members
Louis H. Neill (father)
Catherine I. (Hinde) Neill (mother)
Mary I. Neill (sister)
James L. Neill (brother)
Catherine A. Neill (sister)
Anne R. Neill (sister)
Thomas H. Neill (brother)

More information

Pvt Patrick H. Neill graduated from Jamestown High School in 1943.

He joined U.S. Army Reserve at Fort Dix, New Jersey on 11 March 1944.
He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Grand Failly, France.

He is remembered on a monument at the Bois Jacques in Bastogne, Belgium.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.findagrave.com, www.wwiimemorial.com - Orville L. Kline, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Martha Leinroth Family Tree, http://www.ww2-airborne.us
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.wwiimemorial.com - Orville L. Kline, Jamestown High School 1943, www.findagrave.com - Dominique Potier