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Personal info

Full name
KESSINGER, Clayton
Date of birth
4 January 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Butler, Pendelton County, Kentucky
Hometown
Letcher County, Kentucky

Military service

Service number
35814444
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
10th Armored Infantry Battalion,
4th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
22 September 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Juvelize, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 23 95

Immediate family

Members
Bume Kessinger (father)
Ona (Phelps) Kessinger (mother)
Bonnie Kessinger (sister)
Rosa N. Kessinger (sister)
Clifford Kessinger (brother)
Emma Kessinger (sister)
Ralph Kessinger (brother)
Ray Kessinger (brother)

More information

Pvt Clayton Kessinger enlisted in Evansville, Indiana on 29 January 1944.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Saint James, France.

Source of information: André Koch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1920/1930 Census / Kentucky, Birth Index, 1911-1999

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