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Personal info

Full name
SANDERSON, Walter H
Date of birth
1919
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Canada
Hometown
Somerset County, Maine

Military service

Service number
6154317
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
D Company,
2nd Battalion,
502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Silver Star,
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
3 January 1945
Place of death
Near Longchamps, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
G 4 19

Immediate family

Members
John Sanderson (father)
Clara B. Sanderson (mother)
John J. Sanderson (brother)
Sprague R. Sanderson (brother)
Dorothy Sanderson (sister)
Gordon Sanderson (brother)

More information

Pvt Walter H. Sanderson joined the Regular Army on 28 June 1940. He was reported wounded in action in France and spent a month in the hospital. After he recovered he returned to his unit.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Grand Failly, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.findagrave.com - Russ Pickett, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930 Census,
http://www.ww2-airborne.us
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, The Bangor Daily News - 8 February 1945