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Personal info

Full name
SHIRLEY, Ralph Curtis
Date of birth
20 February 1920
Age
25
Place of birth
Georgia
Hometown
Rabun County, Georgia

Military service

Service number
34939331
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
89th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized),
9th Armored Division,
HQ & Service Troop
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
18 April 1945
Place of death
Etzoldshain, northwest of Bad Lausick, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
P 19 16

Immediate family

Members
Ralph Shirley (father)
Amanda J. Shirley (mother)
Roy L. Shirley (brother)
Ray A. Shirley (brother)
Dora Shirley (sister)
Laura J. Shirley (sister)
Gladys Shirley (sister)
Rozelle Shirley (sister)
Lillie Shirley (sister)
Sara R. Shirley (sister)
Jesse F. Shirley (sister)
Myrtle Craig Shirley Caudell (wife)
Mary Shirley Wilmot (daughter)
Betty Shirley Davis (daughter)
Jean Shirley Godby Keener (daughter )

More information

Pfc Ralph C. Shirley enlisted at Fort McPherson, Atlanta, Georgia on 15 July 1944.

Ralph C. Shirley is remembered at Rabun Memory Park Cemetery in Tiger, Rabun County, Georgia.

On the picture his wife and three daughters pose at his grave marker during a visit in July 1989.

Source of information: Danny van der Groen, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Records

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philipppet, Betty Shirley Davis (daughter)