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Personal info

Full name
SAXE, Walter Edward
Date of birth
1913
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Kiskatom, Greene County, New York
Hometown
Albany County, New York

Military service

Service number
32852941
Rank
Corporal
Function
unknown
Unit
M Company,
3rd Battalion,
379th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
4 December 1944
Place of death
Saarlautern, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
J 19 10

Immediate family

Members
Floyd D. Saxe (father)
Georgiana (Terns) Saxe (mother)
Helen Saxe (sister)
Geraldine Saxe (sister)
Allen F. Saxe (brother)
Katherine Saxe (brother)
Sherwood A. Saxe (brother)
Kenneth C. Saxe (brother)
Helen E. Saxe (sister)
Oliver W. Saxe (brother)
Richard F. Saxe (brother)
Edwin E. Saxe (brother)
Carolyn (Fitzgerald) Saxe (wife)

More information

Cpl Walter E. Saxe enlisted in Albany, New York on 15 March 1943.

He attended high school for 4 years and was a driver before he enlisted.

He was first buried at Temporary American Military Cemetery Limey, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Sax Family Tree / Obryan Family Tree, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php
Photo source: -, www.ancestry.com - Thobryan