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Personal info

Full name
WRIGHT, Ralph Elwood
Date of birth
13 July 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Commerce, Hunt County, Texas
Hometown
Cooper, Delta County, Texas

Military service

Service number
38687793
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
315th Infantry Regiment,
79th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
18 January 1945
Place of death
Landau, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
F 16 38

Immediate family

Members
Claud O. Wright (father)
Bertha V. (Foster) Wright (mother)
Doris O. Wright (sister)
Betty A. Wright (sister)
David H. Wright (brother)
Doris L. (Toon) Wright (wife)
Linda E. Wright (daughter)

More information

Pfc Ralph E. Wright was sent to Europe in October 1944.

He was taken prisoner of war and died at 23.45 hrs. from gangrene after an injury of the right arm above the elbow by a shell-splinter in the German Feldlazarett N° 27566 that was stationed in Landau in der Pfalz, Germany.

He was initially buried at the Garrison Cemetery of Landau in der Pfalz on 22 January 1945.

He is remembered at the Liberty Grove Cemetery in Liberty Grove, Delta County, Texas.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Prisoners of War Data File, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Shaggy’s Family Tree, Combat History 79th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com – Sheila Alley Cherry / https://catalog.archives.gov/id/18238601 - page 250 and 252

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Doris L. / HuntCoTx