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Personal info

Full name
WILK, Walter
Date of birth
20 March 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
Hometown
Cudahy, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

Military service

Service number
36958224
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
10th Infantry Regiment,
5th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
20 November 1944
Place of death
unknown

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
B 18 58

Immediate family

Members
Lewis Wilk (father)
Berta Wilk (mother)
Esther Wilk (sister)
Raymond Wilk (brother)
Carl W. Wilk (brother)
Dorothy Wilk (sister)
Tillie Wilk (wife)
Randolph R. Wilk (son)

More information

Pvt Walter Wilk was a graduate of Riverside High School and had been employed by L.G. Schlecht & Sons machine shop.

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

At the time of his death the 10th Infantry Regiment was engaged in the vicinity of Metz, France.

Source of information: Leo Minne, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1940 Census, A footsoldier for Patton - Mchael C. Bilder and James G. Bilder, The 5th Infantry Division in the ETO, WWII Draft Card

Photo source: The Milwaukee Journal - 6 January 1945, Riverside High school Yearbook, 1938