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Personal info

Full name
SMOOT, Walter Clark
Date of birth
23 March 1913
Age
31
Place of birth
Morrison, Warren County, Tennessee
Hometown
Coffee County, Tennessee

Military service

Service number
34984209
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
110th Infantry Regiment,
28th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
5 November 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Simonskall or Vossenack, Hürtgen Forest, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
D 16 50

Immediate family

Members
James N. Smoot (father)
Bettie (Fry) Smoot (mother)
Bessie (McGiboney) Smith (wife)

More information

Pfc Walter C. Smoot enlisted at Camp Shelby, Mississippi on 23 March 1944.

He was married to Bessie McGiboney on 10 September 1938.

Source of information: André Koch, Carla Mans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Tennessee State Marriages 1780-2002, http://home.scarlet.be/~sh446368/aar-110th-inf-2.html

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Max