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Personal info

Full name
KELLY, Henry Boyd
Date of birth
1919
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Spartanburg County, South Carolina
Hometown
Reidville, Spartanburg County, South Carolina

Military service

Service number
6929737
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
180th Infantry Regiment,
45th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
18 April 1945
Place of death
Near Nürnberg, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
D 21 41

Immediate family

Members
Melton Kelly (father)
Fannie B. (Smith) Kelly (mother)
Mary E. Kelly (sister)
William F. Kelly (brother)
Walter L. Kelly (brother)
Spencer Kelly (brother)
James M. Kelly (brother)
Jesse L. Kelly (brother)
Horace L. Kelly (brother)
Mattie B. Kelly (sister)
Massie L. Kelly (sister)
Dorothy L. (Dobson) Kelly (wife)
Henry L. Kelly (son)

More information

Pvt Henry B. Kelly was a welder before he enlisted at Fort Bragg, North Carolina on 1 July 1944.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Kelly Pearson Family Tree / 1930 Census, http://www.45thdivision.org
Photo source: www.ancestry.com – Brenda Kelly Tripp, Hannah Majewski - Lisa Turner