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Personal info

Full name
SIMPSON, David Oliver Eben
Date of birth
30 January 1914
Age
30
Place of birth
Gedess, Charles Mix County, South Dakota
Hometown
Butte County, South Dakota

Military service

Service number
37478048
Rank
Corporal
Function
unknown
Unit
155th Airborne Anti-Aircraft Battalion,
17th Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
5 January 1945
Place of death
Near Bastogne, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
G 4 26

Immediate family

Members
Elias E. Simpson (father)
Ida C. (Johnson) Simpson (mother)
Ulysses A. Simpson (brother)
Elmer R. Simpson (brother)
Agnes S. Simpson (sister)
Albert E. Simpson (brother)
Cloey G. Simpson (brother)
Freda (Meyer) Simpson (wife)
Kenneth Burbach (adoption son)

More information

Cpl David O. E. Simpson attended Sturgis High School.

His son was adopted and raised by his grandmother and carried her name.

He enlisted in 1943 and was sent overseas in the fall of 1944.

He was killed by mortar fire.

Cpl Simpson was first buried at Temporary American Military Cemetery Grand Failly, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Schwntes Simpson Branch / U.S., Chicago and North Western Railroad Employment Records / South Dakota, Marriages, http://www.ww2-airborne.us

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Fallen SOns and Daughters of South Dakota Project