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Personal info

Full name
MAC KAY, Hector Daniel
Date of birth
3 April 1909
Age
35
Place of birth
Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada
Hometown
Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31392204
Rank
Private
Function
Cook
Unit
E Company,
2nd Battalion,
422nd Infantry Regiment,
106th Infantry Division
Awards
unknown

Death

Status
Died non-Battle
Date of death
26 January 1945
Place of death
Mühlberg, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
B 38 45

Immediate family

Members
Hector Mac Kay (father)
Catherine I. Mac Kay (mother)
Isabella Mac Kay (sister)
Mary Mac Kay (sister)
Violet D. (Guerard) Mac Kay (wife)
Nancy Mac Kay (daughter)
Daniel Mac Kay (son)
Beverly Mac Kay (daughter)
Barbara Mac Kay (daughter)

More information

Pvt Hector D. Mac Kay was a cook before he enlisted at Fort Devens, Massachusetts on 14 December 1943.

He was taken prisoner near Kobscheid, Germany on 16 December 1944 and died in Stalag IV-B.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record / World War II Prisoners of War Data File, www.ancestry.com - U.S. Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil / WWII Draft Card / 1921 Census of Canada

Photo source: www.findagrave.com, https://www.honorstates.org, The CUB of the Golden Lion, Oct/Nov 1951