Missing information?

Do you have any additional information you would like to share about a soldier?

Submit

Personal info

Full name
DUVAL, Billy Ed
Date of birth
19 June 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
McDonald County, Missouri
Hometown
Pineville, McDonald County, Missouri

Military service

Service number
O1060422
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
315th Infantry Regiment,
79th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
19 January 1945
Place of death
Hatten, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
E 33 40

Immediate family

Members
Clarence E. Duval (father)
Mary E. (Jeffers) Duval (mother)
Quinten J. Duval (brother)
Kenneth J. Duval (brother)
Joy Q. Duval (sister)
Geraldine Duval (sister)
Maxine J. Duval (sister)
Nell Duval (sister)
Jackson C. Duval (brother)
Dorothy D. Duval (sister)
Doris J. Duval (sister)

More information

2nd Lt Billy E. Duval attended Pineville High School for four years before he joined the National Guard in Anderson, Missouri on 16 September 1940. He was sent overseas in September 1944.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Stutsman Duval Family Tree, Combat History 79th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com - JHBARR, www.newspapers.com - The Pineville Democrat-8 February 1945
Photo source: -