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Personal info

Full name
RICE, Leonard Madison
Date of birth
2 August 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Toronto, Ontario Province, Canada
Hometown
Erie County, New York

Military service

Service number
32738796
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
E Company,
2nd Battalion,
502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
4 January 1945
Place of death
Near Longchamps, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 16 39

Immediate family

Members
Peter T. Rice (father)
Margaret Rice (mother)
Herbert Rice (brother)
Vernon Rice (brother)
Teddy Rice (brother)
Elda Stacey (half-sister)
Louis Stacey (half-brother)
Patrick Stacey (half-brother)

More information

Pvt Leonard M. Rice attended McKinley Vocational High School for one year.

He enlisted in Buffalo, New York on 19 January 1943.

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

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.findagrave.com – Russ Pickett, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1940 Census, http://www.ww2-airborne.us
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Luxembourg American Cemetery, Leslie-Anne Stacey (great-niece), The Buffalo News - 24 January 1945