Wilburn Elwood Durst was born on February 26, 1918 in Fredericksburg, Gillespie County, Texas. He was the son of Ben F. Durst and Laura Langehennig Durst. Durst entered the army from San Antonio on March 14, 1944. He had been employed in the Alamo City for several years by the San Antonio Transit Company, driving one of their busses in the city. After several months of training at Camp Blanding, Florida, he was at home in Fredericksburg for a short furlough the latter part of July. He left the state for overseas duty and served as a Private First Class in the 1st Infantry Division. He had previously been in France, then Germany, and at the time he has been reported as Killed in action he was somewhere in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge. He was Killed in Action on January 18, 1945 at the age of 26 is now buried in Der Stadt Friedhof Cemetery, Fredericksburg, Gillespie County, Texas, USA.
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