Leland W. Clark was the only son of Ethel and Clarence L. Clark. He had 1 older and 2 younger sisters. They lived at 1428 Buffalo Road in Erie PA. He finished the 9th grade and went to work during the Great Depression as so many had to do. When he was a teenager he worked as a newsboy, and when he was older he worked as a Blacksmith in an Iron Foundry. He never married.
He enlisted in the army on December 10th, 1942. He was in the 393rd Infantry Regiment, 99th Division of the Army. He was killed 2 years and one week later on December 18, 1944, fighting the Nazis in the Ardennes, France in the Battle of the Bulge. His body was never found. He is remembered on a list of names of the missing in a American Cemetery in Belgium. He was awarded the Bronze Star with Oak Leaf clusters, and the Purple Heart.
I am sure his parents must have suffered. They both died 6 years later. On their tombstone they remembered Leland.
Cenotaph here
He enlisted in the army on December 10th, 1942. He was in the 393rd Infantry Regiment, 99th Division of the Army. He was killed 2 years and one week later on December 18, 1944, fighting the Nazis in the Ardennes, France in the Battle of the Bulge. His body was never found. He is remembered on a list of names of the missing in a American Cemetery in Belgium. He was awarded the Bronze Star with Oak Leaf clusters, and the Purple Heart.
I am sure his parents must have suffered. They both died 6 years later. On their tombstone they remembered Leland.
Cenotaph here
Leland W. Clark was the only son of Ethel and Clarence L. Clark. He had 1 older and 2 younger sisters. They lived at 1428 Buffalo Road in Erie PA. He finished the 9th grade and went to work during the Great Depression as so many had to do. When he was a teenager he worked as a newsboy, and when he was older he worked as a Blacksmith in an Iron Foundry. He never married.
He enlisted in the army on December 10th, 1942. He was in the 393rd Infantry Regiment, 99th Division of the Army. He was killed 2 years and one week later on December 18, 1944, fighting the Nazis in the Ardennes, France in the Battle of the Bulge. His body was never found. He is remembered on a list of names of the missing in a American Cemetery in Belgium. He was awarded the Bronze Star with Oak Leaf clusters, and the Purple Heart.
I am sure his parents must have suffered. They both died 6 years later. On their tombstone they remembered Leland.
Cenotaph here
He enlisted in the army on December 10th, 1942. He was in the 393rd Infantry Regiment, 99th Division of the Army. He was killed 2 years and one week later on December 18, 1944, fighting the Nazis in the Ardennes, France in the Battle of the Bulge. His body was never found. He is remembered on a list of names of the missing in a American Cemetery in Belgium. He was awarded the Bronze Star with Oak Leaf clusters, and the Purple Heart.
I am sure his parents must have suffered. They both died 6 years later. On their tombstone they remembered Leland.
Cenotaph here
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