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PEPPLE, Rueben - Date of
birth
6 July 1919 -
Age
25 - Place of
birth
Cathay, Wells County, North Dakota -
Hometown
Germantown, Wells County, North Dakota
Personal info
Military service
- Service
number
37280881 -
Rank
Private -
Function
Gunner -
Unit
34th Tank Battalion,
5th Armored Division
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Awards
Purple Heart
Death
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Status
Died of Wounds - Date of
death
18 January 1945 - Place of
death
Michaelsberg Abbey
Siegburg, Germany
Grave
-
Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
| Plot | Row | Grave |
|---|---|---|
| H | 7 | 3 |
Immediate family
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Members
Christ Pepple (father)
Sophie (Kandt) Pepple (mother)
Loraine Pepple (sister)
Adolph Pepple (brother)
Alice Pepple (sister)
Mylidia Pepple (sister)
Harold Pepple (brother)
More information
Pvt Rueben Pepple enlisted at Fort Snelling, Minnesota on 8 June 1942.Mrs Karen Stucky (according to US Army info) adds: 'Rueben was a gunner on a tank that was hit. He was wounded and told the rest of the crew to evacuate and he stayed with the tank and was captured.'
He was taken prisoner on 15 December 1944 when his unit was fighting in the vicinity of Kufferath, Germany. He suffered from burns in his face and both hands and a bullet in his left heel. He died of these wounds and of body weakness in the Reserve Military Hospital of Siegburg on 18 January 1945 and was buried at the North-Cemetery of this village on 26 January 1944 at 0900 hrs.
Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Peter Schouteten, Dean Johnson (Wells cty V.S.O.) www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.5ad.org, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930 census, https://catalog.archives.gov/id/18238601 - page 67
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Karen Stucky and Susan Wold, Charlotte Magin