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Personal info

Full name
CROSS, Walter Howard
Date of birth
12 November 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kansas
Hometown
Wyandotte County, Kansas

Military service

Service number
37535167
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
513th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
17th Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
7 January 1945
Place of death
Near Flamierge, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 10 63

Immediate family

Members
William B. Cross (father)
Mary P. Cross (mother)
Raymond Cross (brother)
Bruce N. Cross (brother)
Julia P. (Gardner) Cross (wife)
Gineth Cross (daughter)

More information

Pvt Walter H. Cross was employed at Swift & Company.

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

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record, http://www.ww2-airborne.us
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, The Kansas City Star - 6 February 1945