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Personal info

Full name
BALLANCE, Homer E
Date of birth
20 December 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Rolla, Phelps County, Missouri
Hometown
St. Louis County, Missouri

Military service

Service number
37387466
Rank
Technician Fourth Grade
Function
Rifleman
Unit
F Company,
2nd Battalion,
318th Infantry Regiment,
80th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
15 March 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Wadem, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 5 72

Immediate family

Members
Asa E. Ballance (father)
Minnie Ballance (mother)
Mildred Balance (sister)
Floyd Ballance (brother)
Mary Ballance (sister)
Cecil Ballance (brother)
Norma (Stevens) Balance (wife)

More information

T/4 Homer E. Ballance attended high school for four years and was a printer employed by the Woodman and Tiernan Printing Co. before he enlisted at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri on 24 September 1942.
He was killed by artillery shell fragments at his head.

Source of information: Leo Minne. Ralph Peeters, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com – 1930/1940 Census / U.S. Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card File / U.S. Draft Cards Young Men, www.80thdivision.com
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - LuxAmCem, www.newspapers.com - St. Louis Post-Dispatch