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Personal info

Full name
SIMONEAU, Cleo Eusebe
Date of birth
25 December 1918
Age
26
Place of birth
Damar, Rooks County, Kansas
Hometown
Gage County, Nebraska

Military service

Service number
06939558
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
1st Battalion,
304th Infantry Regiment,
76th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
16 April 1945
Place of death
Lauenhain, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
B 12 6

Immediate family

Members
Emile C. U. Simoneau (father)
Delia O. (Saindon) Simoneau (mother)
Lucille Simoneau (sister)
Ulysses Simoneau (brother)
Edmund Simoneau (brother)
Margaret Simoneau (sister)
Alma Simoneau (sister)
Adelia Simoneau (sister)
Eugene Simoneau (brother)
Rose Simoneau (sister)
Leah R. (Winslow) Simoneau (wife)
Cleo E. Simoneau Jr. (son)

More information

Private Simoneau fraduated from Beatrice High School. He had been overseas since November 1944.

German sniper fired two shots across the Zschopau River. The sniper's first hit him in the leg, knocking him down, after which the snipes fired a second shot, killing him instantly.

Source of information: Astrid van Erp, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.footnote.com, www.ancestry.com

Photo source: www.fold3.com, Peter Schouteten, www.newspapers.com - Beatrice Daily Sun