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Personal info

Full name
GOTTWALD, Delvin Bernard
Date of birth
1 June 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minnesota
Hometown
Strearns County, Minnesota

Military service

Service number
37583526
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
23rd Armored Infantry Battalion,
7th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
15 October 1944
Place of death
France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
D 5 32

Immediate family

Members
Theodore D. Gottwald (father)
Mary C. (Betz) Gottwald (mother)
Donald T. Gottwald (brother)
Evelyn K. Gottwald (sister)
Marvin J. Gottwald (brother)
Elizabeth J. Gottwald (sister)
Kenneth F. Gottwald (brother)
Beatrice J. Gottwald (sister)
Donna M. Gottwald (sister)
Kathleen H. Gottwald (sister)

More information

Delvin Gottwald attended Technical High School.

He enlisted in December 1943 and was sent overseas in August 1944.

Pvt Gottwald's brother Marvin was reported missing in action on 4 January 1945 and is remembered at the Walls of the Missing at Manilla American Cemetery.

Source of information: André Koch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930/1940 Census / Minnesota Birth Index 1900-1934

Photo source: www.newspapers.com - St. Cloud Times