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Personal info

Full name
MABE, Walter Roscoe
Date of birth
8 October 1918
Age
26
Place of birth
Virginia
Hometown
Ivanhoe, Wythe County, Virginia

Military service

Service number
33822961
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
D Company,
36th Armored Infantry Regiment,
3rd Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
17 January 1945
Place of death
Vicinity of Stripigney, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
B 1 4

Immediate family

Members
Ambrose A. Mabe (father)
Mary E. (Burnett) Mabe (mother)
Beulah F. (King) Mabe (stepmother)
Edith R. (King) Mabe (sister)
Laura B. (Williams) Mabe (sister)
Henrietta C. (Ingo) Mabe (sister)
Harold M. Mabe (half-brother)
Burlin S. Mabe (half-brother)
Beauford H. Mabe (half-brother)
Carrie M. (King) Mabe (wife)
Ambrose T. Mabe (son)
Julia A. Mabe (daughter)

More information

Pfc Walter R. Mabe enlisted at Camp Lee, Virginia on 23 June 1944.

He trained at Camp Blanding, Florida before deploying to Europe in late December 1944. Pfc Mabe died as a result of a wound in the neck by a gunshot.

Source of information: Astrid van Erp, Fred King (nephew), www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1930 Census

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Fred King