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Personal info

Full name
PHINNEY, Wimburne Mitchell
Date of birth
15 March 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
South Farmington, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Hometown
Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31310276
Rank
Corporal
Function
Radio Operator
Unit
HQ Company,
2nd Battalion,
116th Infantry Regiment,
29th Infantry Division,
Communications Platoon
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
7 October 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Wurselen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
B 11 50

Immediate family

Members
Henry M. Phinney (father)
Elisabeth J. Phinney (mother)
Keith Phinney (brother)
Norval Phinney (brother)
Maxine Phinney (sister)

More information

Cpl Wimburne M. Phinney joined his unit on 4 September 1944.

He was killed when a jeep from the 2nd battalion's communications platoon, occupied by five men transporting coils of telephone wire, detonated an unseen German mine. The explosion killed four occupants and seriously wounded a fifth. The four dead men were Cpl Wimburne Phinney, Pvt Hairston Cumberland, Pvt Earl Potter, and Pvt Marcus Segan.
On the fourth picture his mother kneels to place flowers on the grave of her son. She was one of the last visitors before the disinterment an rearrangement of the graves began. On the third she poses at his final resting place.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Carla Mans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.fold3.com, www.ancestry.com, From Brittany to the Reich van Joseph Balkoski, The News-Herald - 6 August 1947, Page 8

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Wimburne Phinney, The News-Herald - 6 August 1947, Page 8