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Personal info

Full name
MCKAY, Albert
Date of birth
26 May 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Craig, Switzerland County, Indiana
Hometown
Vevay, Switzerland County, Indiana

Military service

Service number
35806845
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
Military Police Platoon,
4th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
11 November 1944
Place of death
In The Château-Salins vicinity, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 10 28

Immediate family

Members
Thomas D. McKay (father)
Mary E. (Lummer) McKay (mother)
Esther McKay (sister)
Louise McKay (sister)
Edith McKay (sister)
Ruth McKay (sister)
Alice McKay (sister)
Thomas H. “Tommy” McKay (brother)
Agnes McKay (sister)
Frederick McKay (brother)
Jean E. McKay (sister)

More information

Pvt Albert McKay enlisted in Louisville, Kentucky on 4 October 1943.

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

Source of information: André Koch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 Census / Gammon Family Tree / Headstone and Interment Record / Indiana, Birth Certificates, 1907-1940

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Silvano Theunissen, www.ancestry.com - 1_dewsmith