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Personal info

Full name
ZAWALICH, Walter Stanley
Date of birth
23 August 1918
Age
26
Place of birth
Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Worcester County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31436066
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
2nd Infantry Regiment,
5th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
11 April 1945
Place of death
Wiseek, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
A 2 18

Immediate family

Members
Joseph S. Zawalich (father)
Marianna (Stomska) Zawalich (mother)
Estelle Zawalich (sister)
Francis Zawalich (brother)
Mary Zawalich (sister)
Irene Zawalich (sister)
Vanda Zawalich (sister)
Joseph Zawalich (brother)
Doris Zawalich (wife)
Ellen M. Zawalich (daughter)
Barbara I. Zawalich (daughter)
Walter S. Zawalich (son)

More information

Pvt Walter S. Zawalich attended Worcester Classical High School and worked as a machinist.

He enlisted at Fort Banks, Massachusetts on 25 September 1944.

Source of information: FOHF, www.wwiimemorial.com, Francis J. McAuliffe, www.abmc.gov, www.fold3.com - Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1920/1930 Census / Walter T. McGovern Family Tree / School Yearbook Record / Headstone and Interment Record, www.findagrave.com 

Photo source:  www.findagrave.com - Fred Munckhof, www.ancestry.com - U.S. School Yearbook Record