WWI · Battle Death Record
Kenneth MacLeish
Lieutenant, U.S. Navy · Illinois
Personnel File — Core Information
- Name
- Kenneth MacLeish
- Entered the Service From
- Illinois
- Rank
- Lieutenant
- Service
- U.S. Navy
- Unit / Regiment
- Naval Reserve Flying Corps, First Yale Unit (naval aviator)
- War
- WWI
- Date of Death
- October 15, 1918
- Awards
- Navy Cross
- Burial / Memorial
- Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial, Waregem, Belgium
- Grave
- Plot B, Row 4, Grave 1
Their story
Lieutenant Kenneth MacLeish, one of the original volunteers of the First Yale Unit and a U.S. Navy aviator, was shot down flying a Sopwith Camel on a patrol near Schore, Belgium on October 14, 1918, and his body was found the following day. He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross and is the brother of poet Archibald MacLeish.
Compiled from American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) and National Archives (NARA) records and public sources.
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