William Gillard was the husband of
Helen McKenna (1908-1992), the daughter of Margaret Tinneny
and Ed McKenna. He fought in a tank killer unit
throughout the European theater in World War II . He was
killed in combat by a concussion bomb on December 24, 1944
and is buried in the American Cemetery in Saint Avould,
France.
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