Walker, Nelson, BG

Fallen

Photo In Uniform

Service Details

Last Rank
Brigadier General

Last Service Branch
Infantry

Last Primary MOS
0002-General Officer

Last MOS Group
General Officer

Primary Unit
1943-1944, 0002, 8th Infantry Division

Service Years
1917 - 1944

Last Photo

Personal Details

Home State

Massachusetts

Year of Birth
1891

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Casualty Info

Home Town Pittsfield
Casualty Date Jul 10, 1944
Cause KIA-Died of Wounds	Reason Gun, Small Arms Fire
Location France	Conflict World War II
Location of Interment American Cemetery - Normandy, France

Official Badges

Unofficial Badges

Ribbon Bar

Unit Assignments


	1917-1919, HHC, HHC, 47th Infantry
	1937-1938, HHC, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry
	1943-1944, 0002, 8th Infantry Division

Combat and Non-Combat Operations


	1918-1918 World War I
	1918-1919 Occupation of Germany, 1919 to 1923
	1941-1944 WWII - American Theater
	1944-1944 WWII - European Theater of Operations/Northern France Campaign (1944)

Additional Information

Last Known Activity:

Commissioned Aug 1917 as 2LT of Infantry.
Killed in Action, July 1944 in Northern France.