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Personal info

Full name
GLADE, Keith Edwin
Date of birth
1925
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Iowa
Hometown
Fontenelle, Adair County, Iowa

Military service

Service number
37681710
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
7th Infantry Regiment,
3rd Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
3 November 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Les Rouges Eaux-Col du Haut Jacques, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 7 66

Immediate family

Members
Edwin R. Glade (father)
Mary J. (Tipling) Glade (mother)
Eleanor E. Glade (sister)
Ruth Glade (sister)

More information

Pvt Keith E. Glade attended high school for four years and was a farmhand, employed by Herbert Fipling.

He enlisted at Camp Dodge, Iowa on 8 December 1943.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in the face.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930/1940 Census / U.S. Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Cards, History 3rd Infantry Division WWII
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy