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Personal info

Full name
YOUNG, Walter
Date of birth
28 April 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York City, New York
Hometown
Hudson County, New Jersey
Ethnicity
White

Military service

Service number
32353674
Rank
Technical Sergeant
Function
Radio Operator
Unit
C Company,
1st Battalion,
385th Infantry Regiment,
76th Infantry Division
Awards
Silver Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
5 April 1945
Place of death
Helsa, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
K 2 9

Immediate family

Members
Arthur Young (father)
Arthur Dirla (stepfather)
Mae (Williams) Young (mother)
Sylvia Young (sister)
Eileen Young (sister)
Vivian Young (sister)
Constance Young (sister)
Allen Young (brother)
Rita G. (Fowler) Young (wife)
Walter Mortimer (son)

More information

T/Sgt Walter Young was employed by Columbia Broadcasting System. He enlisted on 13 June 1942 and was sent overseas in November 1944.

T/Sgt Walter Young was posthumously awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action. A part of the citation reads: ".. deemed it advisable to notify his Company Commander of their precarious position .. crossed sixty five yards of open terrain through a hail of enemy fire despite his wounds, he crawled approximately fifty yards further."

Source of information: André Koch, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 76th Infantry Division "Onaway" Unit History / WWII Draft Card / Headstone and Internment Record / 1920 - 1940 US Census, www.awon.org, www.76thdivision.com, The Jersey Journal - 27 April 1945

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Walter Mortimer, Genealogical and Historical Society - courtesy of Mrs. Doreen Bloomer