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Personal info

Full name
RUDD, Algie Alvester
Date of birth
4 October 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Fulton, Fulton County, Kentucky
Hometown
Troy, Obion County, Tennessee

Military service

Service number
34723584
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
G Company,
2nd Battalion,
324th Infantry Regiment,
44th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
16 December 1944
Place of death
Near Herbitzheim, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
A 24 15

Immediate family

Members
Frank J. Rudd (father)
Minnie P. (Morphis) Rudd (mother)
Jesse J. Rudd (brother)
Marjorie Rudd (sister)

More information

Pfc Algie A. Rudd worked on the family farm before he enlisted at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia on 25 February 1943.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in his chest.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Hochfelden, France.

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 / Kentucky Birth Index / Rudd Family Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com

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