Raymond L. Kinder

Company B 1st Battalion 22nd Infantry

4th Infantry Division

DOW 07/31/1944

Raymond L. Kinder was born in Golden City, Barton County, Missouri on October 31, 1906.

Prior to entering military service he was employed at the Harris Brothers Service Station
in Topeka, Kansas.

He was drafted into the Army on September 3, 1943 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His home of residence
was listed as Shawnee County, Kansas and his civilian occupation was listed as Semiskilled Routemen.
He had completed two years of High School and was married. His religion was listed as Protestant.

He was assigned as a Private to Company B 22nd Infantry on June 25, 1944.
He was one of 20 enlisted men assigned to the Company from the 4th Infantry Division replacement pool on that date.

He was wounded in action in France on July 29, 1944.

Available accounts of battle deaths of the 22nd Infantry do not list a date of death for
Raymond Kinder, only that he Died Of Wounds. Social Security death indexes and
Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File. Washington, D.C.:
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs list his date of death as July 31, 1944.

This would indicate that Private Kinder died on July 31, 1944 of wounds received in action in France
on July 29, 1944, during Operation Cobra, the breakout from Normandy.

Decorations of Raymond L. Kinder

Raymond L. Kinder was buried in the temporary U.S. Military Cemetery,
La Cambe Cemetery, Isigny, France and some time later
his remains were returned to the United States where he was
reinterred in Kansas.

Burial:
Penwell-Gabel Cemetery and Mausoleum
Topeka
Shawnee County
Kansas
Plot: A-Acacia Lawn, Lot 454, sp. 1A

Grave marker for Raymond L. Kinder

Photo by Ceb from the Find A Grave website

Top photo by Bill Stephens from the Find A Grave website

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