History Group Connects Students To Cumberland WWII Soldier

The Western Maryland History group on Facebook, a group of around 12,000 members, played a key role recently in helping French students uncover the story of a soldier that helped liberate their town in World War II.  Historian Dave Williams said the students reached out to the group for information regarding Cumberland native Staff Sergeant Albert Davis…

“The students at the local school kind of wrapped themselves around his story as a hero they wanted to honor, so they made a plan that they were going to go decorate his grave at the Normandy cemetery, the U.S. cemetery in Normandy.”

Williams said the group quickly responded with plenty of information to help the students in France fulfill their project…

“An instantly, this inquiry about this soldier who had died in their town and then was later reburied in the Normandy cemetery – people were all over it, they found out he went to high school at Fort Hill and he graduated in 1938, and that he married his bride when he left for the war, and never came back.”