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Personal info

Full name
BOYD, Raymond Charles
Date of birth
15 May 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Blandburg, Cambria County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Reade, Cambria County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
20322945
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
28th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized)
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
25 April 1945
Place of death
unknown

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
B 7 19

Immediate family

Members
Thomas H. Boyd (father)
Ida (Brown) Boyd (mother)
Thomas Boyd (brother)
George Boyd (brother)
Carol Boyd (brother)
Joseph Boyd (brother)
Sadie Boyd (sister)
James Boyd (brother)
Maude Boyd (sister)
Anna Boyd (sister)
Marian Boyd (sister)
Ida Boyd (sister)

More information

Pvt Raymond C. Boyd enlisted on 17 February 1941 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

His brother James G. Boyd is buried at the American Military Cemetery of Luxembourg.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Pennsylvania Veteran Compensation Files

Photo source: www.findagrave.com, Des Philippet