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Contact Info
Home Town Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
Last Address Washington, D.C.
Date of Passing Jan 25, 1973
Location of Interment U.S. Military Academy West Point Post Cemetery (VLM) - West Point, New York
Brigadier General United States Army. Member of USMA Class of 1915.
In April 1917 at Fort Bliss, Texas he was married to Marguerite Heard, daughter of Major General John W. Heard, USMA Class of 1883, She died in 1928. Next, he was married to Helen DeWitt Duff of Maplewood, New Jersey in 1931. His adopted son, John Heard Conklin, died in 1971. He was the son of John Conklin, United States Army and Rosalie French.
Army Distinguished Service Medal (1918-2016) - 1945
Name of Award Army Distinguished Service Medal (1918-2016)
Devices
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Year Awarded 1945
Last Updated: Nov 28, 2014
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Details Behind Award
Brigadier General John French Conklin (ASN: 0-3777), United States Army, was awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services to the Government of the United States, in a duty of great responsibility as Engineer, THIRD Army from 1944 to 1945.