42nd Infantry Division insignia (portrait pending)

PFC

Byron W Geiger

Aged 27, fallen January 18, 1945

Unit
Company B, 232nd Infantry Regiment
Serial number
35220850
Hometown
Licking, Ohio
Date of death
January 18, 1945
Classification
Died of wounds
Burial
Lorraine American Cemetery, Plot D Row 19 Grave 26, St. Avold, France

Private First Class Byron W Geiger, serial number 35220850, of Licking, Ohio, served with Company B of the 232nd Infantry Regiment in the 42nd Infantry Division, the Rainbow Division. He died of wounds on January 18, 1945, at the age of 27. He is buried at Lorraine American Cemetery, Plot D Row 19 Grave 26, St. Avold, France.

Further reading: The 42nd “Rainbow” Division Was Not at the Battle of the Bulge.

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