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Personal info

Full name
CAUGHEY, Isaac Kerr
Date of birth
31 August 1910
Age
34
Place of birth
Beloit, Mitchell County, Kansas
Hometown
Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona

Military service

Service number
39864371
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
41st Armored Infantry Regiment,
2nd Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
27 November 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Baesweiler, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
A 15 29

Immediate family

Members
Isaac K. Caughey (father)
Lucy B. (Tichernor) Caughey (mother)
William K. Caughey (brother)
Robert L. Caughey (brother)
Marion R. Caughey (brother)
Harry K. Caughey (brother)
Alfred T. Caughey (brother)
John W. Caughey (brother)
Elizabeth M. Caughey (sister)
Margaret Caughey (sister)
Lula C. Caughey (wife)

More information

Isaac K. Caughey was the youngest son of Isaac Kerr Caughey and Lucy Blanche Tichenor of Kansas. Caughey moved to Arizona in the early 1930s; both of his parents were deceased by 1936. He first lived in the Globe-Miami area where he worked as an accountant and was a member of the volunteer fire department. About 1935, he moved to Phoenix and was a sales representative for U.S. Rubber and Seiberling Rubber Companies in Arizona and Colorado. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, he was employed by one of the six government construction firms that worked to rebuild the harbor. Immediately before enlistment, he was working for the government in Alaska and Hawaii.
Isaac Caughey married Lula Crockett on 27 September 1939. She was a nurse employed in 1944 by AiResearch Manufacturing Company.
Pfc Isaac K. Caughey enlisted in Phoenix, Arizona on 16 December 1943.

The pictures were taken in high school in 1927 en 1928.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Astrid van Erp, Terry Hirsch, www.abcm.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Family Tree / Headstone and Interment Records / WWII Draft Cards, http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org - After Action Report CCA, www.newspapers.com - Arizona Republic

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Orange and Black, Beloit High School, 1927 en 1928