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Personal info

Full name
SHERMAN, Ralph Leslie Jr
Date of birth
5 June 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Columbia, Boone County, Missouri
Hometown
Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana

Military service

Service number
35734309
Rank
First Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
222nd Infantry Regiment,
42nd Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
8 March 1945
Place of death
Near Bitche, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 31 44

Immediate family

Members
Ralph L. Sherman (father)
Irma A. (Reifschneider) Sherman (mother)
Oral T. Sherman (brother)
Bertha L. Sherman (wife)

More information

1st Sgt Ralph L. Sherman attended high school for four years and was a musician and teacher of music before he enlisted at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana on 14 October 1943. He was overseas in January 1944.
His brother Oral T. Sherman is remembered at the Tablets of the Missing at the American Military Cemetery in Cambridge.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Curd Family Tree / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, www.findagrave.com, www.newspapers.com – The Indianapolis News Indiana 13 October 1945

Photo source: www.ancestry.com – U.S. School Yearbooks Indianapolis, Indiana, www.newspapers.com – The Indianapolis News Indiana 13 October 1945