2018 Veteran Honoree

2018 Veteran Honoree: Ralph Ewing


Veteran First Name Ralph
Veteran Middle Name C.
Veteran Last Name Ewing
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Date of Birth 1900
Highest Rank Private First Class
Branch of Army Yes
Unit(s) Co. E, 4th Infantry Regiment; Co. E, 166th Infantry Regiment, 42nd Division
Active Service from Year 06/19/1917
Active Service to Year 10/27/1918
World War I Yes
KIA Yes
KIA/DIS/POW When 10/27/1918
KIA/DIS/POW Where France
Township of residence entering service Paris
Township of current residence or at time of death UNKNOWN
Cemetery Paris Twp: Oakdale
Date of Death 10/27/1918
Source 1 Milford Center Monument; Union Co. Cem. Rec., Vol. 6, p. 45; Ohio Soldiers in WWI, 1917-1918
Source 2 No DD-214 recorded as of 10/19/2007 in Union co. Recorder's Office
Notes 1 enlisted 6/19/1917, Marysville, OH; wounded 6/21/1918; killed in action; body returned to U.S. on U.S.S. Wheaton, October 1921; interred in Oakdale Cemetery, 10/30/1921; cemetery records list DOB as 1898
Notes 2 father, Charles Ewing, Marysville, OH, notified of death; KIA