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Personal info

Full name
KELLETT, Robert Donald
Date of birth
1 December 1922
Age
21
Place of birth
Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin
Hometown
Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin

Military service

Service number
O1061440
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
315th Infantry Regiment,
79th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
20 November 1944
Place of death
Haguenau, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 22 44

Immediate family

Members
Gilbert J. Kellett (father)
Dorothy G. Kellett (mother)
Audrey L. Kellett (sister)
Gary L. Kellett (brother)
Betty J. (Bodoh) Kellett (wife)

More information

2nd Lt Robert D. Kellett was a file clerk in the engineering department of the Giddings and Lewis plant before he enlisted in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 16 January 1943. He was sent overseas on 17 September 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in the head.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / 1930 Census, Combat History 79th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com - Jeff Kregel
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy