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Personal info

Full name
WALTER, Arthur B
Date of birth
19 August 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Pennsylvania
Hometown
Niagara County, New York

Military service

Service number
06976855
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
D Company,
2nd Battalion,
505th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
82nd Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
12 October 1944
Place of death
Ooijpolder on the Flatlands, Holland

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
F 1 11

Immediate family

Members
Clarence Walter (father)
Pearl B. (Ecker) Walter (mother)
Clarence Walter (brother)
Winifred Walter (sister)
Rosetta Walter (sister)
Ruth (Rich) Walter (wife)

More information

Pvt Arthur B. Walter enlisted on 18 September 1939.
Temporary buried at cemetery in Molenhoek, the Netherlands on 13 October 1944, plot E, row 4, grave 76.

Source of information: Terry Hirsch, Peter Schouteten, www.wwiimemorial.com, Fold3, Market Garden, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, Alabama County Marriage Record, 1940 Census

Photo source: www.findagrave.com, Market Garden