Rank/Rate	Boatswain's Mate, Second Class
Service Number	223 34 11
Birth Date	September 26, 1912
From	Brooklyn, New York
Decorations	Purple Heart, Prisoner of War Medal
Ship	USS Canopus (AS-9)
Date of Death	October 24, 1944
Location	Aboard the Hellship Arisan Maru
Circumstances	Died when Arisan Maru, transporting Allied Prisoners of War from the Philippines to Japan, was sunk by USS Shark (SS-314)
Remarks	Kenneth was born in Enfield, Maine

 

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