PVT Walter B. Baumgartner

courtesy of "Sour Persmimmon"

PVT Walter B Baumgartner was born 7 Oct 1909 in Iron County, Michigan to Berthold and Elizabeth (Verville) Baumgartner.  His father worked in an iron mine. Walter married Mildred Cameron on 12 Jul 1941.

Walter was drafted in  September 1943. Trained as a rifleman and sent overseas, on 13 Jun 1944 he was transferred from the replacement depot to A Company 116th Infantry.  On 18 Jun 1944 he was wounded and evacuated to the hospital where he died of his wounds on 19 Jun 1944.

Repatriated in 1948, PVT Baumgartner is buried in Holy Sepluchre Cemetery in Southfield, Michigan.