Missing information?

Do you have any additional information you would like to share about a soldier?

Submit

Personal info

Full name
RAGAN, Ben Tetter
Date of birth
20 April 1915
Age
29
Place of birth
Thelma, Limestone County, Texas
Hometown
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas

Military service

Service number
38433849
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
119th Infantry Regiment,
30th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
30 August 1944
Place of death
France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 42 15

Immediate family

Members
Robert M. Ragan (father)
Henrietta Ragan (mother)
Silas T. Ragan (brother)
Dellamae Ragan (sister)
Wille B. Ragan (brother)
Robert J. Ragan (brother)
Opel Ragan (sister)
Walter S. Ragan (brother)
LaRue Ragan (sister)
Kathleen (Fife) Ragan (wife)
Kathryn A. Ragan (daughter)

More information

Pfc Ben T. Ragan was a clerk for the Famous Dry Goods store in Mexia for two years before he entered the service in Mexia, Texas. He was stationed at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri in April 1943. He was sent overseas in July 1944.

His wife received a telegram from the War Department on 13 November 1944 that notified her that he had been killed in action in France on 30 August. She later received a letter dated 10 November 1944 that he was alive, although wounded and a Prisoner of War.

Source of information: Yannick, Carla Mans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1920/1930/1940 Census, www.newspapers.com - The Mexia Weekly Herald 9 Apr 1943, 16 Feb 1945
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy, Groesbeck High School 1944