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Personal info

Full name
SCHMIDT, Donald A
Date of birth
31 January 1914
Age
30
Place of birth
Manitowic, Manitowic County, Wisconsin
Hometown
Manitowoc Rapids, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin

Military service

Service number
36227439
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
333rd Infantry Regiment,
84th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
1 December 1944
Place of death
Lindern, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
I 3 16

Immediate family

Members
Annie Schmidt (mother)
Louise M. (Yelmene) Schmidt (wife)

More information

Pfc Donald A. Schmidt was employed at the Silver Lake convent and later at the Eggers plant in Two Rivers.

He was enlisted on 1 November 1940 and was stationed at Camp Wallace, Texas and in Panama, where he served two years.

He married Miss Yelmene on 25 March 1944 and was sent to Fort Meade, Maryland for two months.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, WWII Draft Cards, 1920 Census, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record, www.newspaperarchive.com - Manitowoc Herald Times

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet