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Personal info

Full name
DEARTH, Donald Eugene
Date of birth
3 March 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio
Hometown
Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
35623515
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
L Company,
3rd Battalion,
137th Infantry Regiment,
35th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
20 November 1944
Place of death
Near Metz, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
J 40 28

Immediate family

Members
Alexander Dearth (father)
Mary A. (Boltinghouse) Dearth (mother)
Howard E. Dearth (brother)
Forrest W. Dearth (brother)
Clinton G. Dearth (brother)
Elizabeth E. Dearth (sister)
Mary E. Dearth (sister)
Charles A. Dearth (brother)
Earl H. Dearth (brother)
Sadie I. Dearth (sister)
Sterling E. Dearth (brother)
Gertrude L. (Rittenhouse) Dearth (wife)

More information

Sgt Donald E. Dearth attended Chillicothe High School for four years and was employed by the B. & O. Railway before he enlisted in Columbus, Ohio on 15 January 1943. He was sent overseas in April 1944.

He was awarded the Purple Heart Medal a first time for wounds, receivedon 31 July 1944 in France.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments.

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

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, After Action Report 35th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com - Thomas L. Smallridge Jr, www.newspapers.com - Chillicothe Gazette 11 December 1944
Photo source: www.newspapers.com - Chillicothe Gazette 11 December 1944