Kays, David Coleman
Army Private 1st class

David Coleman Kays, age 21, from Indianapolis, Indiana.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Friday, April 10, 1970

Parents: Coleman C. Kays

Schools: George Washington High graduate, Perry High

Death details: He suffered the loss of his legs above the knees, wounds in the chest and abdomen and shrapnel in the right arm near DaNang on February 16, 1970. He died from those wounds at an Army hospital in Japan.

Cemetery: Cliff Cemetery, Perry County, Indiana

Source: National Archives, grave marker, Tipton Daily Tribune (1970)