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| courtesy of Don McAllister |
PFC Robert James Simmonds was born 25 Oct 1921 in Anderson, Indiana. He was the eldest of 3 children born to James Asberry and Greta Celeste (Vance) Simmonds. The Simmonds family had been in Indiana since at least the 1840s. His father worked as an inspector in a lamp factory and an assembler in an auto factory. The family owned the home they lived in at 915 West 3rd Street in Anderson. The property was valued at $3000 in 1940 and Robert's father earned a reported $1600 for 1939, a pretty good wage at the time. Robert graduated from high school and then moved to Adrian, Michigan and went to work for Gambles Skogmo Inc. He married Irene R. Dailey there in June 1942.
After Robert was drafted and attended his basic military training, probably in early 1943, he was sent to England and assigned to A Company 116th Infantry. He trained with the unit in preparation for the planned amphibious landing in support of the liberation of occupied France. PFC Simmonds was killed in action in that effort on 6 Jun 1944.
PFC Simmonds was repatriated and re-interred in
Maplewood Cemetery in Anderson, Indiana.
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