Tec 4 Birchell Keeling

Parents: Cecil J. Keeling & Rose L. Fowler-Keeling

Siblings: 1 sister, 1 brother

Hometown: Burgin, Kentucky

Enlisted: Kentucky National Guard

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 25 November 1940 - Harrodsburg, Kentucky

Training:

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty:

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements: 

    - Battle of Luzon

        - 8 December 1941 - 6 January 1942

    - Battle of Bataan

        - 7 January 1942 - 9 April 1942 

Prisoner of War:

    - Not known when he became a POW 

POW Camps: 

    - Philippine Islands:

        - Cabanatuan

Died:

    - 1 July 1942 - dysentery

        - Approximate time of death - 3:00 AM

Buried:

    - Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery

        - after the war his remains could not be positively identified

        - buried as an "Unknown" at the new American cemertery 

Memorial:

    - Tablets of the Missing - American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands

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