SSG Millard Hunter Timbrook

SSG Millard Hunter Timbrook was born 25 Jul 1913 in Hampshire County, West Virginia. He was the 10th of 13 children born to Isaac Hunter and Cordelia May (Snyder) Timbrook. His father was a farmer on land he owned near Sherman, West Virginia. Valued at $2500 in 1930. Millard later moved to Winchester, Virginia. He met and married Sarah Dutterer in October 1941. 

Millard had already enlisted in I Company 116th Infantry in January 1941. When the unit was federalized in February 1941 he went with them to Fort George Meade, Maryland and while there married Sarah. He trained with the unit there, in the Carolina Maneuvers near Fort Bragg, North Carolina and at Camp Blanding, Florida. He was with the unit when it sailed for France aboard the Queen Mary in September 1942 and trained in England for the amphibious assault now known as D-Day. He landed with I Company on 6 Jun 1944 as a SSG and fought with the unit as the regiment struggled to move inland. He was wounded by shrapnel in his left hand on 8 Jun 1944 but stayed with his unit until wounded again on 17 Jun 1944. This time the wound was serious and he was evacuated to a field hospital. SSG Timbrook died of his wound(s) on 18 Jun 1944.

SSG Timbrook was repatriated in 1948 and re-interred in the Winchester National Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia.