*last update 11/16/2019

Military Involvement

 

Servicemen - D surnames KIA POW Died/nonbattle
Davisson, Verl Clark      
Dawson, Harold R. X    
DeMarce, Virgil Raymond     X
Dougall, Joseph T. Jr. X    

Lloyd Marsh Derby was born May 24, 1913 to William E. and Mary Elizabeth Downing Derby. He died Sept. 22, 2011 and is buried in Davenport Memorial Park, Davenport, IA.

Lloyd served in World War II with the U.S. Navy Seabees.

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Henry Arthur Derby was born Dec. 15, 1916 to William E. and Mary Elizabeth Downing Derby. He died Apr. 12, 1974 and is buried in Friends Cemetery, Richland, IA.

Henry served in World War II with the U.S. Navy.

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Ralph Edward Derby was born Feb. 3, 1919 to William E. and Mary Elizabeth Downing Derby. He died Mar. 24, 1993 and is buried in Indianapolis Cemetery, Rose Hill, IA

Ralph served in World War II with the U.S. Navy.

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Harold Sylvester Derby was born Aug. 11, 1921 to William E. and Mary Elizabeth Downing Derby. He died Mar. 11, 2004 and is buried in Hillcrest Cemetery, Brighton, IA.

Sgt. Derby served in World War II with the U.S. Army in Saipan.

Source: ancestry.com


Charles Kuhn Dusenberry was born July 27, 1917 to Lee and Mary Ellen Dusenberry. He died Nov. 12, 1942 and is memorialized at the Tablets of the Missing, North Africa American Cemetery, Tunis, Tunisia and has a cenotaph in Elm Grove Cemetery, Washington County, IA.

Petty Officer Dusenberry served in World War II with the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Hugh L. Scott (AP-43) and was MIA/KIA when that ship was torpedoed, near Fedhala, Morocco, by a German U-boat. He had survived the attack on Pearl Harbor during which he was wounded and spent several weeks in a military hospital in Hawaii. He also served aboard ships that participated in the invasions of the Marshall and Gilbert Islands in the Pacific, before being transferred to the Atlantic Fleet and participating in the Allied invasion of French North Africa.

Source: ancestry.com



ServiceMen Research done by WWII Researcher, Pat Holt Juon, Mar 2019; updated Nov 2019

 

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