In the center of a cemetery, near the flag pole. Isolated Burial

A raised grave made of gray stone with a picture of the deceased and a brass inscribed panel.

Second Lieutenant Gilbert A. “Gill” Malrait was born in Rhode Island in 1919 to Belgian immigrant  parents.  His family moved back to Belgium where Gill attended high school.  At the onset of World War 2, he returned to the US and trained a B-24 bomber navigator. 

Gill was assigned to the 719^th Bomber Squadron,  449^th Bomber Group of the 15^th Air force where he flew missions out of North Africa and Italy.  On April 4, 1944, on about his 20th mission, Malrait's  plane was shot down during a mission over Romania and he was KIA.  At the request of his family, he was buried at the family cemetery in Ronse, Belgium in 1950.

IN MEMORY OF

GILBERT A. MALRAIT

2^ND LIEUTENANT USAAF

1944