Missing information?

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

Submit

Personal info

Full name
SMITH, Sydney Balcom
Date of birth
19 November 1916
Age
27
Place of birth
Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa
Hometown
Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa

Military service

Service number
17067162
Rank
Private First Class
Function
Rifleman
Unit
B Company,
48th Armored Infantry Battalion,
7th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
1 September 1944
Place of death
Verdun, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 37 41

Immediate family

Members
Sydney G. Smith (father)
Orpha G. (Cummins) Smith (mother)
Winnifred L. Smith (sister)
Charles H. Smith (brother)
Martha E. Smith (sister)
Esther M. Smith (sister)
Laura J. (Runyon) Smith (wife)

More information

Pfc Sydney B. Smith attended high school for two years and was a driver employed by the Denver-Chicago Trucking Company.

He enlisted at Fort Des Moines, Iowa on 24 April 1942 and was married to Laura Jane Runyon on 13 May 1942.

Source of information: André Koch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1920/1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Iowa, WWII Bonus Case Files for Beneficiaries, 1947-1959, www.7tharmddiv.org

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy, www.newspapers.com - The Gazette - 14 September 1944