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Personal info

Full name
DAGES, Ralph Carl
Date of birth
5 May 1918
Age
26
Place of birth
Daviess County, Indiana
Hometown
Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana

Military service

Service number
35841463
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
E Company,
2nd Battalion,
134th Infantry Regiment,
35th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
8 January 1945
Place of death
Lutrebois, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 15 32

Immediate family

Members
Joseph A. Dages (father)
Ellen (Doyle) Dages (mother)
Fred Dages (brother)
Ellen B. Dages (sister)
Bernard A. Dages (brother)
Marie Dages (sister)
Leo V. Dages (brother)
Homer Dages (brother)
Irene Dages (sister)
Thelma M. (Gough) Dages (wife)
Ann C. Dages (daughter)
David M. Dages (son)

More information

Pvt Ralph C. Dages attended Central High School and was an electric welder at the Bucyrus-Erie Company.

He enlisted at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana on 3 June 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in his chest.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Vaughn Family Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, After Action Report 35th Infantry Division, www.newspapers.com - Evansville Courier and Press 30 January 1945
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery