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Personal info

Full name
DURKEE, Lawrence L
Date of birth
16 March 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Hornell Ward 5, Steuben County, New York
Hometown
Hornell, Steuben County, New York

Military service

Service number
12208083
Rank
Corporal
Function
unknown
Unit
HQ Company,
2nd Battalion,
501st Parachute Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
5 October 1944
Place of death
The Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
G 1 8

Immediate family

Members
Leonard L. Durkee (father)
Anna M. (Eckart) Durkee (mother)
Dorothy Durkee (sister)
Freida M. Durkee (sister)
Anna L. Durkee (sister)
Richard W. Durkee (brother)
Adelbert D. Durkee (brother)

More information

Cpl Lawrence L. Durkee enlisted in Rochester, New York on 20 November 1942. He attended Hornell High School in Hornell, New York where he was a member of the baseball team.

He was wounded in the invasion of Normandy on D-Day but recovered and returned to the fighting front to be mortally wounded in Holland.

He was initially buried at Molenhoek Cemetery near Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Astrid van Erp, Erwin Derhaag, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Family Tree / 1925/1940 Census, www.ww2-airborne.us, www.newspapers.com - Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York)

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, www.newspapers.com - Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York)