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Personal info

Full name
RUA, Frank
Date of birth
11 July 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Burgess, Barton County, Missouri
Hometown
Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas

Military service

Service number
37526717
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
114th Infantry Regiment,
44th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
22 November 1944
Place of death
Strasbourg, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 14 38

Immediate family

Members
Peta Rua (father)
Louisa (Castagno) Rua (mother)
Marguerite Rua (sister)
August Rua (brother)
Georgia M. (Campbell) Rua (wife)

More information

Pvt Frank Rua attended high school for four years and was a sheet metal worker at Beech Aircraft.

He enlisted at Fort Leavenwort, Kansas on 21 May 1943 was selected for A.S.T.P. He studied engineering at Kansas State College in Manhattan, Kansas.

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 / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com – R & S
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy, The Wichita Eagle - 13 December 1944