Walter Thomas Kitts

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Walter Thomas Kitts was born on June 2, 1892 in Los Angeles, CA. He married and had two children, a son born in 1913 and a daughter born in 1914, and was a draftsman in civilian life.

Walter Thomas Kitts Draft Registration Card. Courtesy of fold3.

Walter Thomas Kitts Draft Registration Card. Courtesy of fold3.

He served in France as part of B Company, 115th Engineer Regiment, 40th Division, A.E.F., and shipped out to France on the USS Balmoral Castle on August 8, 1918, out of New York, NY.

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He was killed on October 13, 1918.

He rests in the St. Mihiel American Cemetary, located on the west edge of Thiaucourt, France; Plot D, Row 11, Grave 2.

His wife remarried in 1922.

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