Son is Prisoner.
MADRID, IA.—Mr. and Mrs. William Kernes of Madrid have received word from the War Department that their son, Pvt. Wilfred Kernes, 23, of the United States marines, is a prisoner of the Japanese. He was reported missing in action after the fall of Corregidor fortress in the Philippines.
Source: Des Moines Tribune, March 27, 1943
Wilfred Kernes was born Oct. 28, 1919 to William Alexander and Nellie Hewitt Kernes. He died Dec. 14, 1944 and is buried in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Lemay, MO.
Pvt. Kernes served in World War II with the U.S. Marine Corps and became a POW and died in the Palawan Massacre.
Source: ancestry.com
