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Personal info

Full name
KELLY, John Anthony
Date of birth
3 August 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Wellesley, Norfolk County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31004360
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
L Company,
3rd Battalion,
422nd Infantry Regiment,
106th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
20 December 1944
Place of death
Büdesheim, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
A 32 21

Immediate family

Members
John J. Kelly (father)
Sarah J. (Peters) Kelly (mother)
Anna M. Kelly (sister)
Joseph P. Kelly (brother)
Thomas H. Kelly (brother)

More information

Pfc John A. Kelly graduated from Wellesley High School.

He enlisted in Worcester, Massachusetts on 8 January 1941.

According to German records, Pfc Kelly died in Feldlazarett 257 of a gunshot wound in the stomach. This German field hospital was stationed in the schoolhouse of Büdesheim/Eifel, Germany at that time and he was initially buried at the local cemetery.

Pfc Kelly's brother, Pvt Joseph P. Kelly, was killed during the Battle of Cherbourg. He is buried at the Normandy American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - U.S. Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, http://106thinfdivassn.org, WWII Draft Card, 1930 US Census, IDPF of William H. Craig

Photo source: Peter Schouteten