Roy Wesley Keidel^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13]}

1918 - 1977  (59 years)

• Name	Roy Wesley Keidel  [12]
  Birth	28 Feb 1918	Bellingham, Whatcom, Washington, USA   [12]
  Gender	Male
  Military Service	16 Oct 1940	Blaine, Whatcom, Washington, USA   [1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 11]
  	WWII Registration; U.S. Army, Corporal in 60th Coast Artillery Corps, 2nd Battallion, Harbor Defenses of Manila & Subic Bay; Japanese prisoner of war 7 May 1942-Nov 1945
  Residence	1950	, Whatcom, Washington, USA   [13]
  Death	22 Aug 1977	Willits, Mendocino, California, USA   [12]
  Burial	Ferndale, Whatcom, Washington, USA   [9]
  Person ID	I342223148066	Tripp Family Genealogical Website

  
  

  Family	Virginia Margaret Tripp,   b. 13 May 1919, Mt. Ida, Anderson, Kansas, USA d. 31 May 1999, Hopkinsville, Christian, Kentucky, USA (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	30 May 1946	Lynden, Whatcom, Washington, USA
  Children	1. Living
  Family ID	F24476	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Roy Wesley Keidel joined the Army in 1940 and was in the Phillipine Islands when the Japanese took over. He was on the awful death march from Manila. He was captured at Corregidor. Roy spent three and a half years in the Japanese prison camp, spending most of that time in the coal mines of Fukuoka, Japan. He was there until the war ended. He was buried with all military honors at the Greenacres Memorial Park, near North Bellingham, Wahington age 59 years.

  
  

• Sources

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