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Personal info

Full name
SELPH, Day Leon
Date of birth
6 February 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Paris, Logan County, Arkansas
Hometown
Subiaco, Logan County, Arkansas

Military service

Service number
38233776
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
2nd Infantry Regiment,
5th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
7 September 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Vernéville, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 8 43

Immediate family

Members
Eugene Selph (father)
Lennie O. (Mc Daniel) Selph (mother)
Mary B. Selph (sister)
James G. Selph (sister)
Norman E. Selph (brother)
Arlis W. Selph (sister)

More information

Pfc Day L. Selph worked on a farm before he enlisted at Little Rock, Arkansas on 20 August 1942.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Champigneul, France.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WW2 Draft Cards Young Men 1940 1947, Parks of Monroe County, Tennessee

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy