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Personal info

Full name
FLOWERS, Kenneth Hess
Date of birth
7 January 1916
Age
28
Place of birth
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York
Hometown
Cumberland County, New Jersey

Military service

Service number
32071896
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
110th Infantry Regiment,
28th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
15 September 1944
Place of death
unknown

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
E 15 72

Immediate family

Members
Richard Flowers Jr. (father)
Sarah Ann "Sallie" (Hess) Flowers (mother)
Harriet L. (Elmer) Flowers (wife)

More information

Sgt Kenneth H. Flowers worked as a plumber, gas fitter or steam fitter.

He enlisted in Trenton, New Jersey on 18 April 1941.

He was married to Harriet Lorraine Elmer on 4 July 1943.

Sgt Kenneth H. Flowers was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Fosse, Belgium.

Source of information: Terry Hirsch,  www.archives.gov, www.abmc.gov,  www.wwiimemorial.com, CWGC/ABMC, www.findagrave.com,  www.ancestry.com - WWII Enlistment Record / 1920/1930 Census / Family Trees / Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Obituary of Harriet Lorraine (Elmer) Flowers (his wife)

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet / Sherwood Wilson