WWII · Battle Death Record
Edmund Searby
Brigadier General, U.S. Army · California
Personnel File — Core Information
- Name
- Edmund Searby
- Entered the Service From
- California
- Rank
- Brigadier General
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Unit / Regiment
- Division Artillery, 80th Infantry Division
- War
- WWII
- Date of Death
- September 14, 1944
- Awards
- Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart
- Burial / Memorial
- Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial, Dinozé, France
- Grave
- Plot B, Row 14, Grave 1
Their story
Brigadier General Edmund W. Searby, Division Artillery Commander of the 80th Infantry Division, was killed in action on September 14, 1944, during the Battle of Mousson Hill near Pont-a-Mousson, France. Having reached the summit and directed artillery fire that destroyed two enemy batteries, he took up a wounded soldier's rifle to engage counterattacking German infantry and was killed in the fighting. He was initially buried in a temporary grave near Toul and later reinterred at Epinal American Cemetery.
Compiled from American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) and National Archives (NARA) records and public sources.
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