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Personal info

Full name
KINARD, Thomas Sparnell
Date of birth
20 March 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, South Carolina
Hometown
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri

Military service

Service number
37493781
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
A Company,
1st Battalion,
320th Infantry Regiment,
35th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
10 December 1944
Place of death
Wittring, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
J 28 27

Immediate family

Members
Eugene W. Kinard (father)
James E. Kinard (brother)
Howard Kinard (brother)
Mary E. Kinard (sister)

More information

S/Sgt Thomas S. Kinard was employed at the McPike Drug Company before he enlisted.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Limey, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, After Action Report 35th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com - MAJ Jimmy Cotton / Alan Spackman
Photo source: www.newspapers.com - The Kansas City Star 28 December 1944