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Personal info

Full name
WALTHALL, David Chatman "Polly"
Date of birth
23 May 1914
Age
30
Place of birth
Halifax, Halifax County, Virginia
Hometown
Roxboro, Person County, North Carolina

Military service

Service number
34594355
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
378th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
6 December 1944
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
J 28 19

Immediate family

Members
Glover B. Walthall (father)
Pearl A. (Rutledge) Walthall (mother)
Bernard H. Walthall (brother)
Bernice H. Walthall (sister)
Hilda F. Walthall (sister)
G. B. Walthall (brother)
Robert C. Walthall (brother)
Virginia Walthall (sister)
Doris Walthall (sister)
Laura L. Walthall (sister)
Mary B. Walthall (sister)
Norma J. Walthall (sister)
Jim E. Walthall (brother)

More information

Pfc David C. Walthall worked in a textile factory before he enlisted at Camp Croft, South Carolina on 9 December 1942.


He was killed in a foxhole by a mortor round.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of 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 / 1940 Census / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Tuck Rebels Family History Site / Honorable Service Earl Wilson, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php
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