1st Lieutenant Lloyd R. Leonard. Lloyd attended Science Hill High School for three years and afterwards worked as a brick and stone mason. He enlisted in the United States Army at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia on 14 June 1941.
In 1943, he applied for and was accepted into Officer Candidate School. Lloyd completed that course and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant as an artillery field officer at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
Afterwards, he was sent to Camp Mackall, North Carolina and assigned to Battery A, 674th Glider Field Artillery Battalion, 11th Airborne Division. Lloyd was serving in the Pacific Theater in the New Guinea Campaign when he died from injuries received in an automobile accident at 108 Station Hospital, Dobodura, Papua New Guinea.
Lloyd was 25 years old and the son of John William Leonard and Laura Elminia Rominger. He was married twice, 1st to Evelyn Jane McCorkle on 9 December 1937 and divorced in January 1939. His 2nd marriage was to Elizabeth Irine Evans on 15 December 1941.
In 1943, he applied for and was accepted into Officer Candidate School. Lloyd completed that course and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant as an artillery field officer at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
Afterwards, he was sent to Camp Mackall, North Carolina and assigned to Battery A, 674th Glider Field Artillery Battalion, 11th Airborne Division. Lloyd was serving in the Pacific Theater in the New Guinea Campaign when he died from injuries received in an automobile accident at 108 Station Hospital, Dobodura, Papua New Guinea.
Lloyd was 25 years old and the son of John William Leonard and Laura Elminia Rominger. He was married twice, 1st to Evelyn Jane McCorkle on 9 December 1937 and divorced in January 1939. His 2nd marriage was to Elizabeth Irine Evans on 15 December 1941.
1st Lieutenant Lloyd R. Leonard. Lloyd attended Science Hill High School for three years and afterwards worked as a brick and stone mason. He enlisted in the United States Army at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia on 14 June 1941.
In 1943, he applied for and was accepted into Officer Candidate School. Lloyd completed that course and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant as an artillery field officer at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
Afterwards, he was sent to Camp Mackall, North Carolina and assigned to Battery A, 674th Glider Field Artillery Battalion, 11th Airborne Division. Lloyd was serving in the Pacific Theater in the New Guinea Campaign when he died from injuries received in an automobile accident at 108 Station Hospital, Dobodura, Papua New Guinea.
Lloyd was 25 years old and the son of John William Leonard and Laura Elminia Rominger. He was married twice, 1st to Evelyn Jane McCorkle on 9 December 1937 and divorced in January 1939. His 2nd marriage was to Elizabeth Irine Evans on 15 December 1941.
In 1943, he applied for and was accepted into Officer Candidate School. Lloyd completed that course and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant as an artillery field officer at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
Afterwards, he was sent to Camp Mackall, North Carolina and assigned to Battery A, 674th Glider Field Artillery Battalion, 11th Airborne Division. Lloyd was serving in the Pacific Theater in the New Guinea Campaign when he died from injuries received in an automobile accident at 108 Station Hospital, Dobodura, Papua New Guinea.
Lloyd was 25 years old and the son of John William Leonard and Laura Elminia Rominger. He was married twice, 1st to Evelyn Jane McCorkle on 9 December 1937 and divorced in January 1939. His 2nd marriage was to Elizabeth Irine Evans on 15 December 1941.
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