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Personal info

Full name
MCLAUGHLIN, Floyd Edwin
Date of birth
3 June 1916
Age
28
Place of birth
Stony Bottom, Pocahontas County, West Virginia
Hometown
Cass, Pocahontas County, West Virginia

Military service

Service number
35429140
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
135th Engineer Combat Battalion
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
6 September 1944
Place of death
France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 9 43

Immediate family

Members
Grover C. McLaughlin (father)
Etta M. (Meeks) McLaughlin (mother)
Harlan E. McLaughlin (brother)
Clara McLaughlin (sister)
Louise M. McLaughlin (sister)
Julian G. McLaughlin (brother)

More information

Pvt Floyd E. McLaughlin was a mail carrier before he enlisted in Huntington, West Virginia on 30 April 1942.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Champigneul, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Card Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com - Coleman
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy