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Personal info

Full name
HURST, Darold Alva
Date of birth
16 September 1913
Age
31
Place of birth
Inman, Holt County, Nebraska
Hometown
Mitchell, Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska

Military service

Service number
39472219
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
1st Battalion,
134th Infantry Regiment,
35th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
26 November 1944
Place of death
Hellimer, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
B 10 55

Immediate family

Members
Alva T. Hurst (father)
Ada B. (Stoner) Hurst (mother)
Jean O. Hurst (brother)
Donald R. Hurst (brother)
George D. Hurst (brother)
Agnes A. (Steidley) Hurst (wife)
Ruth A. Hurst (daughter)

More information

Pvt Darold A. Hurst attended high school for four years and was a driver at the Great Western Sugar Company before he enlisted at Fort Lewis, Washington on 22 March 1944. He was sent overseas in August 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in his chest.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Limey, 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 / Walters Family Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, After Action Report 35th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com - Albert Ledoux, www.newspapers.com - The Leader 7 December 1944
Photo source: www.ancestry.com - rjerke, www.newspapers.com - Scottsbluff Daily Star Herald 11 December 1944