Name:
Alfred “Red” Simons
Rank:
Private First Class
Serial Number:
Unit:
358th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry Division
Date of Death:
1945-05-01
State:
Texas
Cemetery:
Fort Sam Houston National Cemeter, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas,
Plot:
Section S Site 223
Row:
Grave:
Decoration:
Purple Heart
Comments:
Red Simons was born on October 22, 1909 and was from Brownsville, TX.
He served in the 358th Infantry Regiment of the 90th Infantry Division “Tough Ombres” in WW2. On May 1, 1945 while liberating the town of Díly, in the present day Czech Republic, he was killed in action. The town of Díly, in the Pilsen Region of Czech, remembers him and his fellow five soldiers killed on that day with a memorial in front of the Church Sv. Cyrila a Metodeje (St. Cyril and Methodius).