Source: Gathering Our Heroes
Family Search: When Private David Jacob Labombarbe was born on 3 November 1895, in River Rouge, Wayne, Michigan, United States, his father, Jacob La Bombard, was 25 and his mother, Josephine Medorah Legue, was 22. He married Velma Ruth Wertz on 2 September 1922, in River Rouge, Wayne, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Ecorse, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1935 and Township of Taylor, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1940. He died on 18 July 1982, in Chesaning, Township of Chesaning, Saginaw, Michigan, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Romulus Memorial Cemetery, Romulus, Wayne, Michigan, United States.
“Wounded by shell bursting on road” August 21, 1917.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 