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Personal info

Full name
SIMMONS, Charles B
Date of birth
29 November 1915
Age
29
Place of birth
Holbrook, Ritchie County, West Viriginia
Hometown
Doddridge County, West Virginia

Military service

Service number
35846836
Rank
Private First Class
Function
Rifleman
Unit
A Company,
1st Battalion,
330th Infantry Regiment,
83rd Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
10 December 1944
Place of death
Strass, Hürtgen Forest, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
N 10 9

Immediate family

Members
S.A. Simmons (father)
Tabitha (Beck) Simmons (mother)
Hannah F. (Elliott) Simmons (wife)
John C. Simmons (son)
Laura M. Simmons (sister)
Delphia A. Simmons (sister)
James Simmons (brother)
Warren Simmons (brother)
Carl R. Simmons (brother)
O. Kenneth Simmons (brother)
Mary M. Simmons (sister)
Slathiel Simmons, Jr. (brother)
Anna F. (Elliot) Simmons (wife)
Charles T. Simmons (son)
Dorothy E. Simmons (daughter)
Delores B. Simmons (daughter)

More information

Pfc Charles B. Simmons enlisted in Clarksburg, West Virginia on 27 November 1943. He joined his unit from the 41st Replacement Battalion on 19 July 1944.

On 26 July 1944 he was lightly wounded in action and transferred to the 104th Evacuation Hospital for which he was awarded the Purple Heart Medal a first time. After recovery he rejoined his unit and was promoted th Private First Class on 24 October 1944.

Pfc Charles B. Simmons was the brother-in-law of Pfc Robert W. Jeffries who is buried at the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, http://83rdinfdivdocs.org, www.ancestry.com - 1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / West Virginia Memory Project, West Virginia Memory Project

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, West Virginia Memory Project - Charles T. Simmons