Edward K. Cornelius

SECOND LIEUTENANT EDWARD KENNETH CORNELIUS was born in New Jersey on December 16, 1919 to Theodore R. and Elizabeth Cornelius. By 1930 the family was living with the grandmother, Amelia Cornelius, at 914 Vine Street in Camden NJ, where the father was a machinist. Besides Edward, there were two brothers, Theodore Thomas Cornelius, and Robert Cornelius. Edward Cornelius was a graduate of Camden High School, where he was active in many activities.

Edward K. Cornelius had qualified for flight duty after entering the Army. Assigned to the 43rd Bomber Group, his squadron was operating out of Nadzab, New Guinea when the B-24J he flew in, piloted by First Lieutenant John Duvall, was lost on June 13, 1944. Older brother Theodore Thomas Cornelius, serving in the United States Navy, had been lost when the submarine he served on, the USS Scorpion, was lost while on her fourth war patrol of the Pacific in February of 1944. 

June 28, 1944

Second Lieutenant Edward Kenneth Cornelius and his brother Chief Motor Machinist's Mate Theodore Thomas Cornelius. United States Navy,  were both lost during 1944. Neither man's body was recovered. Two markers were erected, side by side, in there honor, at Beverly National Cemetery in Beverly NJ.