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Personal info

Full name
GOSSARD, Ralph Owen
Date of birth
26 December 1914
Age
30
Place of birth
Iowa
Hometown
Murdo, Jones County, South Dakota

Military service

Service number
37051298
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
G Company,
2nd Battalion,
22nd Infantry Regiment,
4th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
10 April 1945
Place of death
Near Niederstetten, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
E 24 33

Immediate family

Members
Samuel Gossard (father)
Elva E. (Thompson) Gossard (mother)
Elsie R. Gossard (sister)
Robert J. Gossard (brother)
Alice L. Gossard (sister)
Thomas B. Gossard (brother)
Doopba M. Gossard (sister)
Mary E. (Bever) Gossard (wife)
Jimmie Gossard (son)

More information

S/Sgt Ralph O. Gossard was a truck laborer before he enlisted in Jefferson Barracks, Missouri on 15 February 1941.
He is remembered at the Pleasant Grove Cemetery in Texas County, Missouri.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Company’s / 4ID After Action Reports, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Miller Family Tree / 1930/1940 Census, www.findagrave.com – Diana Kimes, www.newspapers.com – The West Plains Journal Missouri - 18 January 1945

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Marcia