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Personal info

Full name
KEYES, Gordon Edgar
Date of birth
16 June 1926
Age
18
Place of birth
Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa
Hometown
Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska

Military service

Service number
37750907
Rank
Private
Function
Rifleman
Unit
K Company,
3rd Battalion,
318th Infantry Regiment,
80th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
16 March 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Weiskirchen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
F 9 7

Immediate family

Members
Charles C. Keyes (father)
Lauranna L. (Colson) Keyes (mother)
Clem W. Keyes (brother)
Charles C. J. Keyes (brother)
Lucetta Keyes (sister)
Charles R. Keyes (half-brother)
Dorothy P. (Coombs) Keyes (wife)
Scott G. Keyes (son)

More information

Pvt Gordon E. Keyes was employed by the Yellow Cab Co.
His son Scott was born on 18 March 1944, 5 months before he enlisted at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas on 25 August 1944. He was sent overseas in February 1945.
He was killed by artillery shell fragments in the thorax.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com – 1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card File / U.S. Draft Cards Young Men, www.80thdivision.com
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.ancestry.com