US PARAS Floyd, Benson Perry

[Craig Robertson]

• SURNAME

Floyd​

• FORENAME

Benson Perry​

• UNIT

503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment (Company H)​

• RANK

Staff Sergeant​

• NUMBER

35014106​

• DATE OF DEATH

18th February 1945​

• AGE

26​

• GRAVESITE

Bethany Cemetery, Heath, Alabama, USA​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 17.03.1916 Andalusia, Alabama, USA​

father Rev. Benjamin P. Floyd (1872-1936)​

mother Daisy Magdaline (nee Duncan) Floyd (1876-1929)​

grammar school education​

civil occupation semiskilled furnacemen, smelters and pourers​

employed by Republic Steel, Pine Street, Warren, Ohio​

single without dependents upon enlistment​

resided 569 High Street North East, Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio (draft card)​

1940 draft card Warren, Ohio​

19.03.1941 entered service Cleveland, Ohio​

07.1942 married Mamie Ruth McConnell​

KIA Corregidor Island​

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