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Personal info

Full name
COLLUM, David John
Date of birth
12 March 1915
Age
29
Place of birth
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
20101057
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
328th Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
12 December 1944
Place of death
Near Metz, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
A 28 30

Immediate family

Members
David W. Collum (father)
Mary C. (Delaney) Collum (mother)
Mildred E. Collum (sister)
Lillian G. Collum (sister)
Irene B. Collum (sister)
Joseph Collum (brother)
Geraldine Collum (sister)
Irene F. (Smith) Collum (wife)
David J. Collum Jr. (son)

More information

S/Sgt David J. Collum attended high school for three years and was a tinsmith, coppersmith and sheet metal worker before he joined the National Guard in Boston, Massachusetts on 16 January 1941. He was sent overseas in August 1944.

He was killed by small arms fire in his chest.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Limey, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com - Irene Kelley, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Smith Glenn Tree / 1930/1940 Census / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.newspapers.com - The Boston Globe 28 January 1945, After Action Report 26th Infantry Division
Photo source: www.newspapers.com - The Boston Globe 28 January 1945