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Personal info

Full name
SELF, Sidney Villa
Date of birth
20 December 1916
Age
28
Place of birth
De Queen, Sevier County, Arkansas
Hometown
Kellogg, Shoshone County, Idaho

Military service

Service number
6859906
Rank
Technician Fourth Grade
Function
unknown
Unit
101st Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
24 December 1944
Place of death
Eschdorf, Luxembourg

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 8 15

Immediate family

Members
Jett O. Self (father)
Etta B. (Barnes) Self (mother)
Coye R. Self (brother)
Laverne Self (sister)
Marlin B. Self (sister)
Laura Graves (half sister)
Raymond Graves (half brother)
Iva N. (Rhodes) Self (wife)

More information

T/4 Sidney V. Self attended Kingston High School in Washington for two years and was a miner and mining-machine operator at the Bunker Hill Mining Company.

He joined the Regular Army in Spokane, Washington on 10 December 1941. He was sent overseas theater in August 1944.

He was killed by small arms fire.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Grand-Failly, 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 Draft Cards Young Men / Arkansas Marriage Certificates / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com - Dorsey Barnes Drane, www.fold3.com - 26th Infantry Division, www.newspapers.com - McCurtain Gazette 17 January 1945
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Major M