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The fallen resistance people in Limburg

 

Floyd L Settless

∗ 13-01-1909 Gilkey, Rutherford Co, NC     † 17-09-1944 Valkenburg (35)
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Private First Class Floyd L. Settless, SN 34593214
2nd Armored Division, 41st Infantry Regiment, D-Company [1]

The following text is taken from the book Valkenburg 80 jaar bevrijd (Valkenburg 80 Years Liberated) [2]
Floyd Settles was born in 1909, was a bachelor and lived in the hamlet of Gilkey, North Carolina. [3.1] Floyd worked as a carpenter ín a sawmill.
On December 3, 1942, Floyd enlisted at Camp Croft South Carolina.
Floyd Settles’ unit, the D-Company, left Sibbe at 6:30 a.m. on Sunday, September 17. [3.2]
At 7:45 that morning, Floyd Settles was killed in action in Valkenburg.

Floyd is buried in the Little White Country Church Cemetery, Rutherfordton [3.3], Rutherford County, North Carolina. His headstone was mistakenly inscribed with the wrong unit. We believe that it should be 41st, not 91st. [1]

Footnotes

1. American War Memorials Overseas Floyd L. Settles
2. Valkenburg 80 jaar bevrijd, VIII – We Do Remember, p.147
3. OpenStreetMap
   1. Gilkey, North Carolina
   2. Sibbe
   3. Rutherfordton, Rutherford County, North Carolina
4. More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg