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82nd Division, 327th Infantry Regiment (United States Army) |
| Date Of Birth: |
21/06/1894
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| Died: |
10/10/1918 (Killed in Action) |
| Age: |
24 |
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Corporal John Charles McKeown was born at ‘The Beeches’, Killygonland, Ardboe, County Tyrone. John Charles McKeown was listed as killed in action on 10th October 1918 during the U.S. Army’s biggest engagement in World War 1, the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, which was the largest U.S. engagement of the war and began on the 26th September 1918 and ended with the Armistice on 11th November 1918. In those few weeks of fighting the U.S. Army had lost 18,000 men.
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Within the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial in France, which covers 130.5 acres, rest the largest number of US military dead in Europe, a total of 14,246. Most of those buried here lost their lives during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive of World War I. The immense array of headstones rises in long regular rows upward beyond a wide central pool to the chapel that crowns the ridge. A beautiful bronze screen separates the chapel foyer from the interior, which is decorated with stained-glass windows portraying American unit insignia; behind the altar are flags of the principal Allied nations.
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