Mark Seymour

Company B 1st Battalion 22nd Infantry

4th Infantry Division

KIA 09/14/1944

Mark Seymour was born in Ocean Springs, Jackson County, Mississippi, on December 22, 1910.

He was drafted into the Army on January 1, 1944, at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. He had completed
three years of High School, and listed his civilian occupation as Managers and Officials.
He was married to Ruth Clark, and they had two children, Mark and Barbara.
His religion was listed as Catholic.

Mark Seymour and his family.
Left to right: his son Mark; his wife Ruth; his daughter Barbara.

Photo by raoul from the Find A Grave website via Julien Woestyn

He was assigned to Company B 22nd Infantry from the 4th Infantry Division replacement pool
on August 2, 1944.

Private Seymour was killed in action during the first penetration into Germany by the 22nd Infant ry,
on September 14, 1944.

Decorations of Mark Seymour

TWO OCEAN SPRINGS MEN ARE KILLED IN SERVICE OF COUNTRY

War front action took the lives of two men of Ocean Springs section in Germany and in the South
Pacific, war department telegrams to relatives during the week disclosed.

The dead are: Cpl. ELDRIDGE A. BILBO, USMCR, 21 year-old son of Mrs. and Mrs. John W. Bilbo, Route 2,
Box 328, Biloxi, a few miles north of Ocean Springs near Gulf Hills, killed in the Pacific Theater,
and MARK SEYMOUR, 33 year-old husband of Ruth Clark Seymour, former Biloxian, and the son of
Mrs. John R. Seymour, Ocean Springs, killed in action in Germany Sept. 14.

The war department announcement concerning Seymour, revealed no other details.

He was a life-long resident of Ocean Springs, attended Ocean Springs High School and formerly was
active in Coast amateur baseball circles, and he also had been a member of the Knight of Columbus. He
formerly operated the Pastime Bar and Anchor Inn at Ocean Springs. He also was employed at Ingalls in
Pascagoula prior to entering the service.

He left Ocean Springs Dec. 23 for Camp Shelby where he was inducted after which he returned home and
then reported for active duty Jan. 25. He took his basic training at Camp McClellan, Ala., and then
went to Camp Meade, Md., and to New York. He arrived in England July 27 and was in France a week later
with the First Army. On Sept. 13 his wife heard from him from Belgium--a day prior to his death.
He had been awarded three medals, two for combat and one for marksmanship.

He is survived by his wife, two children, Mark M. aged eight and Barbara June, six years old,
his mother, a brother, Edward Cleveland Seymour, Ocean Springs and a sister, Mrs. T. Norman, Ocean Springs.

There will be a special Mass said for Seymour Wednesday at 7:15 am at St. Alphonsus Catholic Church by
Father Diegnan.

From: The Daily Herald Biloxi MS
Monday October 2, 1944 page 5

From the Find A Grave website

Mark Seymour was buried in the temporary U.S. Military Cemetery,
Fosse Cemetery, Namur, Belgium in Block E Row 3 Grave 52 and was moved to the permanent
cemetery at Henri-Chapelle, in the 1947-1949 time frame, when the temporary cemeteries were shut down.

He is buried in the Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, in Henri-Chapelle, Liege, Belgium,
Plot G Row 8 Grave 13.

Grave marker for Mark Seymour

Photo by Jasper van Haren, of the Netherlands, who has adopted
the grave of Mark Seymour.

From the Find A Grave website maintained by: Linda Ellis

Marker for Mark Seymour, at the cenotaph erected in Mark's memory by the family, Bellande Cemetery,
Ocean Springs, Jackson County, Mississippi, USA.

Photo by Roger Mathieu from the Find A Grave website maintained by: Linda Ellis

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