HQ and HQ Company Veterans grouping

Group of miscellaneous items identified to T/5 Leon C. Weiser

The items of this grouping are part of a large grouping belonging to T/5 Leon C. Weiser and sold by his godson. Leon C. Weiser served with HQ an HQ Company of the 83rd Infantry Division.

All items I was able to add to my collection are paperwork and include several photographs of Leon Weiser and his fellow GIs as well as 83rd booklets, V-mail, parts of his scrapbook and several WW2 era newspapers. Take a closer look at the different items through the different pages below.

Photographs

Soldiers Mail

Ephemera

Scrapbook

T/5 Leon C. Weiser

Technician 5th Grade Leon C. Weiser

Leon C. Weiser was born on April 13, 1922 in Bowers, Berks County, Pennsylvania and raised there as the son of the late George W. Weiser (1895-1923), and Sadie E. (Schearer/Weiser) Wickert (1896-1980). His father George W. Weiser served in World War One with the AEF in Europe. He died in May 1923 and left a widow with the just one year old Leon en his four years old sister Alma. After the second marriage of his mother, Leon was raised as the stepson of Marcus E. Wickert.

Leon Charles Weiser lived in Kutztown, Pennsylvania when he enlisted the service (#33368569) on October 2, 1942 at Allentown, Pennsylvania. Prior to entering the service, he was employed at the Trexler Lumber Co. planing mill in Allentown. After basic training at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, he went to Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky where he continued his training. In preparation for its overseas deployment, the 83rd Division departed for Camp Shanks in March, 1944, then on the New York port of embarkation in April, leaving for the European Theatre of Operations (ETO). He was a T/3 with the 83rd Infantry Division from April 6, 1944 until November 13, 1945. For his service he was awarded, among other decorations, the Combat Infantry Badge, the Bronze Star Medal (GO #132), the Purple Heart Medal, the American Defense Service Medal, the American Campaign Medal, the Good Conduct Medal, the World War II Victory Medal and the European African Middle-Eastern Campaign Medal with three Bronze Stars (for Ardennes, Rhineland and Central Europe campaigns).

After the War he married Hilda E. Schlener (1927-2014) on August 19, 1950. Leon Weiser passed away peacefully in his sleep on July 28, 2015 in the residence of his godson Douglas E. Held, in Kutztown, Pennsylvania and is buried at the Union Cemetery of Bowers, Berks County, Pennsylvania.