World War II Honoree
Killed in World War II
Kenneth D. Farris
Branch of Service
U.S. Army
Hometown
Childress, Texas
Honored By
Orville L. Kline
Rank: Private. On January 11, 1944, he was inducted into the United States Army at Lubbock, Texas. Served with the Fourth Infantry ‘Ivy’ Division in the European Theater of Operations. Assigned to Company-B as a Rifleman, First Battalion, Twenty-Second Infantry Regiment, and a subordinate unit of the Division. His division participated in the Battle of the Hurtgen Forest against the German Armed forces (Battle Dates: September 19-December 16, 1944), Rhineland Campaign. On November 28, 1944, he was wounded by incoming artillery fire, and left the front line to seek medical treatment from the battalion’s aid station. Reported missing in Action Wednesday, November 29, 1944 when he failed to return to his company. Later his missing in action status was amended to read killed in action November 25, 1945. His name is permanently inscribed in the tablets of the missing, memorialized at the American Cemetery in Margraten, Netherlands. In May of 1946, personnel of the 6890th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company, Quartermaster Corps, discovered an unburied set of remains in an old German minefield near Gey, Germany. The remains could not be positively identified, and were interred as an unknown in the Ardennes American Cemetery Neupre, Belgium. In July of 2017 a Joint Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Command investigation team disinterred, the unknown. The remains were transferred to the Joint Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Agency at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska were he was identified. The remains of this Soldier were interred with Military Honors, July 9, 2018 at the Dallas-Forth Worth National Cemetery in Dallas, Texas. He received the following awards posthumously: Bronze Star and the Purple Heart. The Bronze Star, awarded for Bravery, Act of Merit and Meritorious Service in Combat. This American Patriot was awarded the Purple Heart, for his ultimate sacrifice in defense of his country.