Walter E. Jones

Company C 1st Battalion 22nd Infantry

4th Infantry Division

KIA 04/20/1945

Walter E. Jones listed his home of residence as Sullivan, Tennessee.
His religion was listed as Protestant.

He was assigned to Company C as a platoon leader on March 14, 1945.

Second Lieutenant Jones was killed in action near Crailsheim, Germany on April 20, 1945.

On April 20, 1945 1st Battalion 22nd Infantry entered the outskirts of Crailsheim, Germany.
As the Battalion approached Crailsheim 2nd Lieutenant Walter E. Jones of Company C
was sent forward with two enlisted men to make contact with the mayor of the town,
and arrange for the town to surrender, to avoid its possible destruction. Terms of surrender
had apparently been agreed upon, when all three men were shot by the Germans as they left the scene,
with Jones being killed.

Walter E. Jones was originally buried in the temporary cemetery at Saint-Avold
in Block KKK Row 8 Grave 91, and was moved to the permanent cemetery at Saint-Avold,
in the 1947-1949 time frame, when the temporary cemeteries were shut down.

Burial:
Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial
Saint-Avold
Departement de la Moselle
Lorraine, France
Plot D Row 24 Grave 42

Grave marker for Walter E. Jones

Photo by Astrid
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