Payne Francis Leland

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Francis Leland Payne is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:

147th Combat Engineer Battalion Roll of Honor Monument

Name:

Francis Leland Payne

Rank:

Private

Serial Number:

38344276

Unit:

147th Engineer Combat Battalion

Date of Death:

1944-06-06

State:

Texas

Cemetery:

Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-Sur-Mer, France

Plot:

Tablets of the Missing

Row:

Grave:

Decoration:

Purple Heart

Comments:

Francis Leland Payne was born on April 27, 1911, in Olney, Texas. He was the son of James Wiley Payne and Martha Ann Barron Payne.

Francis served as a Private in Company B, 147th Engineer Combat Battalion, during World War II. He was declared Missing in Action on June 6, 1944, and is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing, Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-Sur-Mer, France.