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Personal info

Full name
ROY, Harold David
Date of birth
29 July 1918
Age
26
Place of birth
Passaic, Passaic County, New Jersey
Hometown
Buena, Passaic County, New Jersey
Religion
Jewish

Military service

Service number
12038444
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
24th Armored Engineer Battalion,
4th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
31 December 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Bastogne, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
D 7 18

Immediate family

Members
Abraham J. Roy (father)
Rose (Kramer) Roy (mother)
Bernice Roy (sister)
Clarice Roy (sister)
Esther R. (Traina) Roy (wife)

More information

Pfc Harold D. Roy graduated from Clifton High School and in 1940 and graduated from Montclair State Teachers College. He was employed at the United States Rubber Company.

He volunteered for the Army of the United States in Newark, New Jersey on 23 December 1941.

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

In 1936 the family changed their name from Rojofsky to Roy.

Source of information: André Koch, Kathy McDermott, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1940 Census

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - soilsister, The Herald News - 19 January 1945, Montclair State College 1940 La Campana Yearbook