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Personal info

Full name
KALKWARF, Alton Rudolph
Date of birth
21 September 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Flanagan, Livingston County, Illinois
Hometown
Scott Township, Vanderburgh County, Indiana

Military service

Service number
O1306851
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
313th Infantry Regiment,
79th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
7 January 1945
Place of death
Oberroedern, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 21 48

Immediate family

Members
Albert Kalkwarf (father)
Clara L. (Meyer) Kalkwarf (mother)
Ruth E. Kalkwarf (sister)
Winfred E. Kalkwarf (brother)
Evelyn M. (Ellerman) Kalkwarf (wife)
Pamela Kalkwarf (daughter)
Rudolph Kalkwarf (son)

More information

1st Lt Alton R. Kalkwarf graduated from Reitz High School and was attending Lockyear’s Business College before he joined the National Guard in Evansville, Indiana on 17 January 1941. He was sent overseas in September 1944.

On one photo Lt Hartford Salee shows Lt Alton Kalkwarf (on the left) the proper way to put on a gas mask.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / SRC Tree / Kalkwarf Tree / 1940 Census, Combat History 79th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com – MAJ Jimmy Cotton / www.newspapers.com – Evansville Press 11 February 1945

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy, www.newspapers.com - Evansville Press - 12 October 1940