(courtesy of "Westside")
Grave marker for Sgt Curtis B. Sides in the Smith Chapel
Cemetery, Carbon Hill (Walker county), Alabama.
Curtis enlisted in the Army at Ft
McClellan, AL on 29 August 1942.
Pfc Sides participated in the Normandy
invasion and was promoted to Sergeant on 21 July 1944 shortly after the
regiment returned from the France campaign.
On 21 September 1944, during fighting near the Beek
church, Holland, Sgt Sides was killed by a sniper.
Om 23 September 1944. Sgt Sides was
interred in the Molenhoek cemetery, in Plot A, Row 10, Grave 181.
Following the war his family chose to have his remains repatriated and
he was laid to rest in his native Alabama. |
