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Personal info

Full name
WHITING, Walter Richard
Date of birth
25 June 1916
Age
28
Place of birth
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Winter Park, Orange County, Florida

Military service

Service number
34530592
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
H Company,
2nd Battalion,
142nd Infantry Regiment,
36th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
1 February 1945
Place of death
Oberhoffen, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 15 21

Immediate family

Members
John F. Whiting Sr. (father)
Mary B. (Carroll) Whiting (mother)
Alice I. Whiting (sister)
John F. Whiting Jr. (brother)
Evarilla E. (Moore) Whiting (wife)
Mary M. Whiting (daughter)

More information

Sgt Walter R. Whiting worked as a carpenter for building contractors in Winter Park and Orland before he enlisted at Camp Blanding, Florida on 15 November 1942.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, https://36th-id.frb.io, https://texasmilitaryforcesmuseum.org/, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / WWII Draft Cards Young Men / WWII Hospital Admission Card Files / Our Path Through History, www.findagrave.com – Union48, www.newspapers.com - Orlando Evening Star - 16 March 1945 / The Portmouth Herald - 26 February 1945

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Andy, www.ancestry.com – Merk / Laurie Al Hawaz / Jeffrey Whiting