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LELAND E. RILEY


[courtesy of Karen Peterson Riley

]Grave marker for Leland E. Riley in Guardian Angels Catholic Church Cemetery, Oakdale (Washington county), Minnesota.

 

Leland registered for the draft in Balsam Lake, WI on 27 April 1943.

His date of arrival in Company B, 508th PIR is not known.  Pvt Riley first appears in the Company B morning report When he goes on leave for 5 days departing on 22 July 1944 and returning on 27 July 1944.  

Pvt Riley was declared missing in action as of 19 September 1944 but later determined to have been hospitalized.  He was transferred to the hospital's detachment of patients on 19 December 1944.

On 12 February 1945, Pvt Riley was transferred back to Company B from the 3rd Replacement  Depot.

He was discharged on 13 August 1947.

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