Rank: Corporal
Unit: Troop C, 36th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, 11th Cavalry Group (Mecz)
Awards: Purple Heart Medal
Date of birth: 9-Feb-1906
Hometown: Dodge County, Nebraska
Marital status: Single. Parents: August Theodore Klemke and Anna Louise [Beck] Klemke
Campaign: World War II
Date of casualty: 21-Apr-1945
Age at death: 39
Cause of death: Killed in action.
Place of interment: Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial, Margraten, Limburg, Netherlands
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