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Personal info

Full name
BOLINDER, Malcolm Leroy
Date of birth
27 August 1918
Age
26
Place of birth
Brockton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Brockton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31469436
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
K Company,
10th Infantry Regiment,
5th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
25 February 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Peffingen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
F 10 19

Immediate family

Members
Clarence E. Bolinder (father)
Bessie E. (Hemenway) Bolinder (mother)
Ida M. Bolinder (stepmother)
Lois Bolinder (wife)

More information

Pvt Malcolm L. Bolinder was a clerk in a financial institution. before he enlisted at Fort Devens, Massachusetts on 7 June 1944.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1920/1930 - Census / U.S. Headstone and Interment Record / Massachusetts Mariage Reccords, www.findagrave.com, A footsoldier for Patton / Michael C. Bilder James G. Bilder, The 5th Infantry division in the ETO

Photo source:
Peter Schouteten