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Personal info

Full name
SOMERS, Le Roy Clarence
Date of birth
9 October 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Pleasantville, Atlantic County, New Jersey
Hometown
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33339707
Rank
Technician Fifth Grade
Function
unknown
Unit
134th Infantry Regiment,
35th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
14 January 1945
Place of death
Remichampagne, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 7 26

Immediate family

Members
Edward W. Somers (father)
Lillian G. (Matlack) Somers (mother)
Edward W. Somers Jr. (brother)
Lillian E. Somers (sister)
Kathryn Somers (sister)
Florence V. Somers (sister)

More information

T/5 Le Roy C. Somers employed at the Rubber Company before he enlisted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 12 October 1942.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments to his skull.

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 / Matlack Family Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card, After Action Report 35th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com - MAJ Jimmy Cotton
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery, www.ancestry.com - Judith DiBona