Lyonel H. Eich

Private First Class, U.S. Army

Service # 37750744

271st Infantry Regiment, 69th Infantry Division

Entered the Service from: Nebraska

Died: 13-Apr-45

Buried at: Plot P Row 3 Grave 14

Netherlands American Cemetery

Margraten, Netherlands

Awards: Purple Heart

Obituary

Pfc. Lyonel Eich Dies of Wounds in Germany

Was Injured in Action April 13 Report Indicates

John Eich received a wire from the War Department Monday May 14th, that his son, Pfc. Lyonel H. Eich died of wounds received in Germany on April 13, 1945. No other details were given, but stated that a letter would follow.

Pfc. Eich, who graduated from the Lexington high school last spring, entered the Army on August 22, 1944. After taking his basic training at Camp Fannin, Texas, he was sent overseas about the first of the year. He was in the Infantry with the First Army in France and Germany.

On August 16, 1944 he was married to Miss Iryl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Tomasek, of Lexington, Nebr., at Phillipsburg, Kansas. His wife is making her home with her parents near Lexington.

Lyonel's mother, Mrs. Harold Hunt, formerly of Cozad, Nebr., now lives at Colorado Springs, Colorado.

(Source: Dawson County Herald, Lexington, Dawson County, Nebraska; published May 17, 1945)

Obituary

Gave Supreme Sacrifice

Pfc. Lyonel H. Eich was the son of John Eich of Lexington, Nebraska. He came to Lexington to make his hom ein 1942 and graduated from Lexington high school in 1944. Prior to coming here he attended school in Cozad.

He was employed at the Lincoln Cleaners.

On August 16, 1944 he was united in marriage with Iryl Tomasek, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Tomasek of Lexington.

Pfc. Eich entered the Army on August 22, 1944, and took his training at Camp Fannin, Texas. He was serving with the American First Army in Germany when he was killed in action, on April 13, 1945.

Mrs. Eich is making her home with her parents in Lexington.

(Source: Dawson County Herald, Lexington, Dawson County, Nebraska; published June 14, 1945.)