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Personal info

Full name
MCELWRATH, Brooks
Date of birth
19 August 1915
Age
29
Place of birth
Graves County, Kentucky
Hometown
Mayfield, Graves County, Kentucky

Military service

Service number
O-1313275
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
10th Armored Infantry Battalion,
4th Armored Division
Awards
Silver Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
18 March 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Simmern, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
D 3 24

Immediate family

Members
Thomas A. McElwrath (father)
Mary (Brooks) McElwrath (mother)
Annie N. McElwrath (sister)
George T. McElwrath (brother)
Linda McElwrath (sister)

More information

1st Lt Brooks McElwrath graduated from Duke University in 1937 and was employed at New York Life Insurance.

He is remembered at Sunset Cemetery, in Dresden, Tennessee with a memorial marker.

Source of information: André Koch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - 1920/1930/1940 Census / Killmer Spaulding Murray Family Tree / Kentucky, Birth Index, 1911-1999 / Headstone and Interment Record

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery / Michael J. Rae, Duke University 1937