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Personal info

Full name
BRINKMAN, Donald Carl "Leon"
Date of birth
13 July 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Aurora, Kane County, Illinois
Hometown
DuPage County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
36638554
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
L Company,
3rd Battalion,
333rd Infantry Regiment,
84th Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Missing in Action
Date of death
23 November 1944
Place of death
Suggerath, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Walls of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Herman H. W. Brinkman (father)
Wilhelmine S.E. (Gansberg) Brinkman (mother)
Hulda C. Brinkman (sister)
Herbert W. Brinkman (brother)
Harold Brinkman (brother)
Ervin F. Brinkman (brother)
Lorraine I.F. Brinkman (sister)
George E. Brinkman (brother)
Fae D. Brinkman (sister)

More information

Pvt Donald C. Brinkman graduated from Wheaton Community High School in 1941 and was employed at Montgomery Ward Company.

His remains were recovered and identified in 1964. Two skeletal remains were found in an isolated, unmarked grave, being Sgt Dois Williams and Pvt Donald C. Brinkman. They were identified by dental records and I.D. tags, still around their necks.

Pvt Brinkman is buried at the American Military Cemetery Ardennes in Belgium.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Family Trees

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Wheaton Community High Ychool yearbook, 1941