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Personal info

Full name
KOZIOL, Edward
Date of birth
20 July 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Buffalo, Erie County, New York
Hometown
Buffalo, Erie County, New York

Military service

Service number
42094101
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
E Company,
2nd Battalion,
134th Infantry Regiment,
35th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
23 September 1944
Place of death
Leyr, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 25 47

Immediate family

Members
Michael A. Koziol (father)
Bertha (Lewandowski) Koziol (mother)
Helen Koziol (sister)
Gerthie Koziol (sister)
Henry G. Koziol (brother)
Viola Koziol (sister)
Virginia Koziol (sister)
Helen J. Koziol (wife)

More information

Pvt Edward Koziol attended high school for three years, and was employed at the Every Body Daily News Paper before he enlisted in Buffalo, New York on 29 January 1944.

He was killed by small arms fire in his chest.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Andilly, 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 / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files / Koziol Family Tree / 1940 Census, After Action Report 35th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com - Russ Pickett
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy