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Personal info

Full name
DOMON, Walter Robert
Date of birth
8 May 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Buffalo, Erie County, New York
Hometown
East Concord, Erie County, New York

Military service

Service number
32253251
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
328th Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
6 January 1945
Place of death
Wiltz, Luxembourg

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
B 4 50

Immediate family

Members
Charles J. Domon (father)
Helen B. (Diehl) Domon (mother)
Charles J. Domon Jr. (brother)
Lillian H. Domon (sister)
Olive M. Domon (sister)
Roy Domon (brother)
Alice J. Domon (sister)
Mary H. Domon (sister)
Chester R. Domon (brother)
Jeanette Domon (sister)
Verna M. Domon (sister)
Lorraine R. Domon (sister)
Lawrence Domon (brother)
Leona A. Domon (sister)
Elsie Domon (wife)
Walter R. Domon (son)

More information

Pvt Walter R. Domon attended Hutchinson - Central High school for one year and was employed by the Worthington Pump & Machinery Company.

He enlisted at Fort Niagara, New York on 13 March 1942.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in the chest and leg.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Clark Family Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com - Russ Pickett, www.fold3.com - 26th Infantry Division
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery