Simmons, Leonard Desmar

Leonard D. Simmons headstone

NPS Photo/B.Hayes

Quick Facts

Significance:

United States Marine Corps, Signal Corps

Place of Birth:

Cannon County, Tennessee

Date of Birth:

January 31, 1924

Place of Death:

Hawai'i

Date of Death:

December 26, 1944

Place of Burial:

Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Cemetery Name:

Stones River National Cemetery

Leonard Desmar Simmons was born in 1924 in Cannon County, Tennessee. During World War II, he served in the United States Marine Corps as a private assigned to the Signal Corps, where he supported communications essential to Marine Corps operations in the Pacific.

Simmons died while serving in Hawaii on December 26, 1944. For wounds received in the line of duty, he was awarded the Purple Heart. In 1947, his remains were returned to Tennessee and reinterred at Stones River National Cemetery, where he rests in Plot P-6254.