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Personal info

Full name
WYSS, Walter Benjamin
Date of birth
4 July 1905
Age
39
Place of birth
Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois
Hometown
Oakville, Louisa County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
36751609
Rank
Private
Function
Rifleman
Unit
101st Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
10 December 1944
Place of death
Metz-en-Couture, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
B 16 16

Immediate family

Members
Jacob Wyss (father)
Mary M. (Albiez) Wyss (mother)
Martha Wyss (sister)
John Wyss (brother)
Edward Wyss (brother)
Adia Wyss (sister)
William Wyss (brother)
George A. Wyss (brother)
Louise M. Wyss (sister)
Anna E. Wyss (sister)
Jacob W. Wyss (brother)
Lydia M. Wyss (sister)
Esther R. F. Wyss (sister)
David F. Wyss (brother)
Gladys I. Wyss (1st wife)
Sandra Wyss (daughter)
Martha M. (Schaer) Wyss (2nd wife)
David Wyss (son)
Douglas Wyss (son)
Paul Wyss (son)

More information

Pvt Walter B. Wyss worked at the Altorfer Brothers Company of Peoria before he enlisted on 16 June 1943. He was sent overseas in October 1944.

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, www.findagrave.com - Martha Lisa Mode Flinsch and Elisabeth C Flinsch, After Action Report 26th Infantry Division
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Sue