Walter Howard Draper (1909-1987) was a Brigham Young University graduate who served in the United States Army and in the Netherlands mission.
Walter Howard Draper was born September 21, 1909 in Wellington, Utah, to Walter Nephi Draper and Clara Maud Critchlow Draper. He attended Brigham Young University but in 1936 interrupted his studies to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Netherlands. Elder Draper returned to the United States in 1938 to complete his education, and in 1942 he graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in agronomy. With the American entry into World War II in 1941, Draper enlisted in the United States Army, where he served in the Army Intelligence Corps and was involved in, among other things, the liberation of the Netherlands and American P.O.W. camps in Europe. A lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Draper was active in the LDS Church, serving both as a senior missionary in the Netherlands, and as an official escort for new missionaries at the LDS missionary training center in Provo, Utah. Walter Draper died January 18, 1987 at the age of seventy-seven.
From the guide to the Walter Howard Draper papers, 1936-1987, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections)
