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Personal info

Full name
LYLE, Lester Edwin
Date of birth
5 December 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Newark, Licking County, Ohio
Hometown
King County, Washington

Military service

Service number
19095256
Rank
Corporal
Function
unknown
Unit
C Battery,
377th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
14 January 1945
Place of death
Near Foy, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 9 36

Immediate family

Members
Clarence L. Lyle (father)
Veda E. (Shepherd) Lyle (mother)
Mona F. (Lyle (sister)
Donna Lyle (sister)
Doris M. (Nuyens) Lyle (wife)

More information

Cpl Lester E. Lyle was employed at a laundry before he volunteered for the Army of the United States in Seattle, Washington on 29 May 1942.

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

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record, http://www.ww2-airborne.us, www.findagrave.com – Old History Buff

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery, the Newark Advocate - courtesy of B. Jeffries, Highschool Yearbook