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Personal info

Full name
MCQUAID, William O Jr
Date of birth
1921
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Kansas
Hometown
Wyandotte County, Kansas

Military service

Service number
6931905
Rank
Technical Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
L Company,
3rd Battalion,
377th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

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

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 7 35

Immediate family

Members
William O. McQuaid (father)
Mabel McQuaid (mother)

More information

T/Sgt William O. McQuaid Jr. joined the Regular Army in Raleigh, North Carolina on 28 June 1939.
He attended 2 years of college.
He is remembered at the Mount Hope Cemetery in Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kansas.
He was first buried at Temporary American Military Cemetery Limey, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com - A Grateful American, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.findagrave.com - DRK, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - DRK