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Personal info

Full name
BOWERS, Kenneth Delbert
Date of birth
23 August 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Waukegan, Lake County, Illinois
Hometown
Waukegan, Lake County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
36645742
Rank
Private First Class
Function
Gunner
Unit
B Company,
38th Armored Infantry Battalion,
7th Armored Division,
Anti-Tank Platoon
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
19 December 1944
Place of death
St Vith, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
F 11 18

Immediate family

Members
Myron O. Bowers (father)
Mildred C. (Lamson) Bowers (mother)
Willard M. Bowers (brother)
Virginia M. Bowers (sister)
Elizabeth Bowers (wife)

More information

Pfc Kenneth D. Bowers was killed by a gun shot wound in the head.

He was first buried in a temporary grave at Henri-Chapelle on 23 December 1944. He was finally given his final resting place on 17 July 1948.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, Laura Phillips, David Kinkade (nephew), www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil / 1930 Census, IDPF

Photo source: Peter Schouteten