courtesy of Anne Cady |
After Alvey entered the Army he was assigned to H Company 116th Infantry. SGT Leffel was killed in action on 16 Oct 1918.
SGT Alvey was repatriated in 1920 and re-interred in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.
Older brother, Arthur James Leffel served in the Navy from 1917-1921. Brother George Dewey Leffel served in the 1st Virginia Infantry and H Company 116th Infantry with Alvey. Paternal grandfaather, Samuel Leffel, served as a PVT in B Company 28th Virginia Infantry in the Civil War.
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