PVT Timothy Kane

PVT Timothy Kane was born 30 Nov 1910 in Drumshanbo, Ireland. He was the son of Owen Kane. Timothy immigrated in 1928 and pursued the American dream in New York City.  A high school graduate, Timothy apparently worked for the New York Central Rail Road, an elevator operator in 1933, and worked as attendant at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City 1940.

Timothy was drafted February 1941. We don't know for certain but we think that he was sent to Fort George Meade, Maryland and almost immediately assigned to B Company 116th Infantry. He would have then trained with the unit at Fort Meade, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina during the Carolina Maneuvers and at Camp Blanding, Florida. PVT Kane would have traveled to England aboard the Queen Mary with the regiment in September 1942. Once in England, PVT Kane would have participated in the intense training that was part of the unit's preparation for the planned amphibious landing that was to be part of the liberation of occupied France. However, for reasons currently unknown, PVT Kane present when a hand grenade detonated and was wounded in the abdomen. Admitted to the 50th Field Hospital at Cambridge, England PVT Kane died there on 31 May 1944. 

PVT Kane rests forever in the Cambridge American Cemetery.