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Personal info

Full name
SELMON, Dwight Conaway
Date of birth
26 May 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Alexis, Warren County, Illinois
Hometown
Spring Grove, Warren County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
O-547683
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
335th Infantry Regiment,
84th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
29 November 1944
Place of death
Lindern, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
B 12 24

Immediate family

Members
Ray L. Selmon (father)
Rachel A. (McMaster) Selmon (mother)
Robert D. Selmon (brother)
Doris P. (Patterson) Selmon (wife)
Michael D. Selmon (son)

More information

2nd Lt Dwight C. Selmon attended Knox College where he was an outstanding football player and he was inducted into the Knox-Lombard Athletic Hall of Fame. He was an actor in civil life.

He joined the US Army Reserve in Galesburg, Illinois on 25 May 1942.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Michael Dwight (Johnson) Selmon (son), www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Family Trees

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, www.ancestry.com - dogpearl / Knox College Yearbook 1945