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Personal info

Full name
BARNES, Walter Eli
Date of birth
18 December 1915
Age
28
Place of birth
Coldwater, Comanche County, Kansas
Hometown
Teller County, Colorado

Military service

Service number
O1323397
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
378th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
26 November 1944
Place of death
Metz, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 14 104

Immediate family

Members
Eugene I. Barnes (father)
Maude M. (Williams) Barnes (mother)
Nellie Barnes (sister)
Irene A. Barnes (sister)
Irven F. Barnes (brother)
Eugene M. Barnes (brother)
Eunice V. Barnes (sister)
William D. Barnes (brother)
Levi B. Barnes (brother)
Fred H. Barnes (brother)
Maxine M. Barnes (sister)
George R. Barnes (brother)
Dorothy N. Barnes (wife)

More information

2nd Lt Walter E. Barnes enlisted in Pueblo, Colorado on 29 October 1942.

He attended high school for 4 years and was a mining-machine operator before he enlisted.

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

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Kellogg Duncan Family Tree, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php, www.findagrave.com - Buckshot
Photo source: -, www.wwiimemorial.com - Dorothy Barnes