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Personal info

Full name
KELLEY, Loy Franklin
Date of birth
1 March 1922
Age
23
Place of birth
Stanly County, North Carolina
Hometown
Stanly County, North Carolina
Religion
Protestant

Military service

Service number
34603067
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
28th Infantry Regiment,
8th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
5 April 1945
Place of death
Wissen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
C 36 8

Immediate family

Members
Thomas D. Kelley (father)
Eliza J. (Efird) Kelley (mother)
Mary E. Kelley (sister)
Fannie V. Kelly (sister)
Willie L. Kelley (sister)
Luther H. Kelley (brother)

More information

Pfc Loy F. Kelley enlisted at Camp Croft, South Carolina on 23 January 1943.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Margraten, the Netherlands.

He is remembered at the Pine Grove Methodist Church Cemetery in Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - U.S. Headstone and Interment Record for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil /
Efird Family Tree, www.findagrave.com – William Poplin, Http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org - After Action Report 28th Infantry Regiment

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - William Poplin