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Personal info

Full name
PRZYBYSZ, Daniel John
Date of birth
30 October 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Buffalo, Erie County, New York
Hometown
Buffalo, Erie County, New York

Military service

Service number
32840156
Rank
Private
Function
Rifleman
Unit
C Company,
23rd Armored Infantry Battalion,
7th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
25 January 1945
Place of death
Wallerode, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
F 7 76

Immediate family

Members
John Przybysz (father)
Anna (Tomasik) Przybysz (mother)
Henry Przybysz (brother)
Marion Przybysz (sister)

More information

Daniel Przybysz's mother immigrated from Poland in 1906. She tragically died in 1932 and so did her husband, John, ten years later in 1942. After the death of his mother, Daniel became a resident of The Immaculate Heart of Mary Orphan's Children Home located in Cheektowaga, New York.
He worked in clothes laundering before he enlisted in the US Army at Buffalo, New York on 26 February 1943.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Carla Mans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 7tharmddiv.org

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.findagrave.com - Flo B