Hometown: Gypsum, Ohio

Parents: Henry E. Simon & Emma A. Simon

Siblings: 1 sister, 5 brothers

Enlisted: Ohio National Guard

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army 

        - 25 November 1940 - Port Clinton, Ohio

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty:

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements:

    - Battle of Luzon

        - 8 December 1941 - 6 January 1942 

    - Battle of Bataan

        - 7 January 1942 - 9 April 1942 

Prisoner of War: 

    - 9 April 1942

        - Death March

            - Mariveles - POWs start march at southern tip of Bataan
            - POWs ran past Japanese artillery firing at Corregidor
                - Americans on Corregidor returned fire
            - San Fernando - POWs put into small wooden boxcars
                - each boxcar could hold eight horses or forty men
                - 100 POWs packed into each car
                - POWs who died remained standing
            - Capas - dead fell to floor as living left boxcars
            - POWs walked last ten miles to Camp O'Donnell

POW Camps: 

    - Philippine Islands: 

        - Camp O'Donnell

            - unfinished Filipino training base
            - Japanese put camp into use as POW Camp
            - only one water spigot for entire camp
            - as many as 50 POWs died each day
            - Japanese opened new POW camp to lower death rate 

        - Cabanatuan #1

Died: 1 July 1942 - dysentery

    - approximate time of death - 3:00 AM

Buried:

    - Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery

        - Grave: 1010  Row: 10

        - fourteen POWs in grave

            - one of these POWs was James O'Brien another member of C Company

Reburied:

    - American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands

        - Plot:  E   Row:  8   Grave:  51