Walter G. Todd
Rank: Private, U.S. Army
Serial: 32363004
Unit: 94th Fighter Control Squadron
Entered service from: New Jersey
Died:
Buried at: New Camden Cemetery, Mt. Ephraim & Ferry Avenues, Camden NJ
Private Walter G. Todd, 34, of 1015 Ironside Road in the Fairview section of Camden NJ was killed on November 19, 1944 when the command car he was a passenger in crashed enroute from Lanesboro MA to Pittsfield MA. The driver, Private Ercil F. Bosley, was later charged with dangerous driving.
Walter Todd was born in North Carolina on September 7, 1910. When his father died in 1923, he moved to Camden NJ, and attended the Yorkship School. After leaving school, he worked at different times for the Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia, and for the RCA-Victor Division of the Radio Corporation of America in Camden. In 1936 he was living at 1581 Minnesota Road in Fairview. When he was called to service on September 16, 1942, he had been employed as a cook in Audubon NJ, and was single.
Walter Todd trained at Fort Dix NJ, and was subsequently stationed at an airbase near Atlanta GA. He had been reassigned to Bradley Field in Windsor Locks CT only one week before his death. At the time of his death, he was assigned to an Army project near Washington Mountain, in Massachusetts.
Private Todd was survived by a sister, Sadie Luoco of the Ironsides Road address, and two brothers, Clarence and Arthur.