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Personal info

Full name
BEIDER, Kenneth Larry
Date of birth
23 September 1915
Age
29
Place of birth
Eau Claire, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin
Hometown
Cadott, Chippewa County, Wisconsin

Military service

Service number
16021194
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
10th Infantry Regiment,
5th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
11 February 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Bollendorf, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
B 11 16

Immediate family

Members
Frank J. Beider (father)
Emma M. (Myer) Beider (mother)
Bernice E. Beider (sister)
Earl E. Beider (brother)
Floyd Beider (brother)
Harlow Beider (brother)
Virginize Beider (sister)
Marcia Beider (sister)

More information

Pfc Kenneth L. Beider worked on a farm.

He joined the Regular Army in Wausau, Wisconsin on 15 October 1940. Before he was sent to the European Theater of Operations, he served in Iceland for a year and a half.

He was hospitalized, once for slight burns on the right side of his face and a second time for rather serious flesh wounds in his right arm from gunfire, for which he was awarded the Purple Heart Medal for the first time.

Source of information: Leo Minne, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940  Census / U.S. Headstone and Interment Record / Myers Family Tree, A footsoldier for Patton / Michael C. Bilder James G. Bilder, The 5th Infantry Division in the ETO, WWII Draft Card

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery, www.newspapers.com - The Chippewa Herald 17 March 1945