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Personal info

Full name
WILKENING, Raymond J
Date of birth
13 December 1917
Age
26
Place of birth
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
Hometown
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
36777285
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
10th Infantry Regiment,
5th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
20 November 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Metz, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 24 55

Immediate family

Members
Carl Wilkening (father)
Anna (Weingarner) Wilkening (mother)
Carl Wilkening (brother)
Frank Wilkening (brother)
Marian Wilkening (sister)
Elizabeth Wilkening (sister)
Helen M. (Lasky) Wilkening (wife)

More information

Pfc Raymond J. Wilkening was first buried in the U.S. Temporary Cemetery Limey, Toul, France.

On 27 June 1942 he married in Decatur, Van Buren County, Michigan.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1920/1930/1940 Census / Michigan Marriage Records / Cook County Illinois Birth Index, A footsoldier for Patton - Michael C. Bilder and James G. Bilder, The 5th Infantry Division in the ETO

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