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Personal info

Full name
KANE, William Edward
Date of birth
8 December 1912
Age
32
Place of birth
Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Suffolk County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31166731
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
28th Infantry Regiment,
8th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
25 February 1945
Place of death
Stockheim, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
D 30 5

Immediate family

Members
Michael J Kane (father)
Hazel S. (Faunce) Kane (mother)
Mary T. Kane (sister)
Dorothy K. Kane (sister)
Marion C. Kane (sister)
Mildred L. Kane (sister)
James Kane (brother)
Francis Kane (brother)
Alice Kane (sister)
Robert Kane (brother)
Helen Kane (sister)
Ruth Kane (sister)
Margaret P. (Lane) Kane (wife)
Margaret Kane (daughter)
William Kane (son)

More information

Pvt William E. Kane was a longshoreman before he enlisted in Boston, Massachusetts on 5 September 1942.

Pvt William E. Kane is remembered on a memorial in Holyoke, Massachusetts.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - U.S. Headstone and Interment Record for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil / 1920/1930/1940 Census / WWII Draft Card / Govoni Family Tree, Http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org - After Action Report 28th Infantry Regiment

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Robert Comeau