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Personal info

Full name
KELLEY, Earnest Webster "Web"
Date of birth
5 September 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Tatum, Rust County, Texas
Hometown
Texas

Military service

Service number
38642614
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
10th Infantry Regiment,
5th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
21 September 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Pournoy-la-Chétive, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 12 36

Immediate family

Members
Ernest L. Kelley (father)
Ethel I. (Martin) Kelley (mother)
Ella J. Kelley (sister)
Andrey E. Kelley (sister)
Eugene Kelley (brother)
Billie W. Kelley (sister)
Bobby Kelley (brother)

More information

Pvt. Earnest W. Kelley worked on the family farm before he enlisted.

Pfc Kelley is remembered at the Langley Cemetery in Beckville, Panola County, Texas with a memorial marker.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / Texas Birth Certificates, A footsoldier for Patton / Michael C. Bilder James G. Bilder, The 5th Infantry Division in the ETO

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Zeb Zettlemoyer / James Durham, Men and Women in the Armed Forces from Panola County, Texas