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Personal info

Full name
KESSLER, Roy M
Date of birth
18 April 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Georgia
Hometown
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
Religion
Jewish

Military service

Service number
O-417088
Rank
Captain
Function
unknown
Unit
A Company,
1st Battalion,
506th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Bronze Star

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
15 January 1945
Place of death
Isle-le-Pré, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 9 19

Immediate family

Members
Max H. Kessler (father)
Lena (Ory) Kessler (mother)
Celeste Kessler (sister)
Geraldine Kessler (sister)

More information

Capt Kessler was a graduate of Georgia Tech in 1940. He worked at the Candler Warehouse for the U.S. Quartermaster Corps before joining the army in 1941.

He was a veteran from the D-Day invasion and Operation Market-Garden, where he was wounded in Eindhoven. He returned to duty in time for the fight in and around Bastogne.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Grand Failly, France.

A memorial stone can be found at the Greenwood Cemetery in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Astrid van Erp, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com – Orville L. Kline, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Howard Ory Family Tree / 1930 Census, http://www.ww2-airborne.us, The Atlanta Constitution 4 February 1945
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Luxembourg American Cemetery / Maureen Keillor