Application for a headstone and
resulting grave marker for Tec/5 Harold K. Hiner in Section I, Site
121-Q, Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery,
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Harold
registered for the draft on 24 September 1941 but was not inducted until
4 February 1943. Tec/5 Hiner was transferred from Hq 82nd Airborne
Division to Service Company, 508th PIR on 11 September 1944. He
was subsequently transferred to Company F on 21 November 1944.
Tec/5 Hiner was seriously wounded in action in Belgium on
30 December 1944 and succumbed to his wounds the following day. On
2 January 1945 his remains were interred in Henri Chapelle #1 in Plot UU,
Row 3, Grave 115. He was
posthumously awarded the Purple Heart and Combat Infantryman Badge.
As a result of the post-war repatriation effort, he was
returned to his home state ands re-interred in the Fort
Leavenworth National Cemetery on 9 August 1949. |