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Personal info

Full name
MCKINNEY, Walter Durley
Date of birth
4 January 1908
Age
36
Place of birth
Caney, Montgomery County, Kansas
Hometown
Independence, Montgomery County, Kansas

Military service

Service number
37731206
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
141st Infantry Regiment,
36th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
27 October 1944
Place of death
Biffontaine, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 2 19

Immediate family

Members
Francis M. McKinney (father)
Ordella A. (Williams) McKinney (mother)
Alta McKinney (sister)
Etta McKinney (sister)
Wooster McKinney (brother)
Ira E. McKinney (brother)
Adolphus F. McKinney (brother)
Beatrice A. McKinney (sister)
Olive R. McKinney (sister)
Cecil D. McKinney (brother)
Alford L. McKinney (brother)
Everett L. McKinney (brother)
Annalea (Towery) McKinney (wife)
Kenneth G. McKinney (son)

More information

Pvt Walter D. McKinney worked as a meter tester at the Union Gas Company before he enlisted at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas on 18 January 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments.

On one photo his cousin Ira poses at his grave in Epinal Cemetery, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Arbogast Family Tree / WWII Draft Cards Young Men / WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com – Kristy Fox
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Andy, www.ancestry.com - Idt