Hometown: Gypsum, Ohio

Parents: Henry & Emma Simon

Family: Three brothers

Enlisted: Ohio National Guard

Inducted: U. S. Army 

    25 November 1940

Training: 

    Fort Knox, Kentucky

    Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty: Philippine Islands

Engagements: Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War: 

    9 April 1942

        - Death March

POW Camps: 

    Philippine Islands: 

        Camp O'Donnell

Died: 1 July 1942 - dysentery

Buried: American Military Cemetery - Manila