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Personal info

Full name
GREENWOOD, Ralph J
Date of birth
2 May 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Kentucky
Hometown
Kenton County, Kentucky
Ethnicity
White

Military service

Service number
35674307
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
1st Battalion,
393rd Infantry Regiment,
99th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Finding of Death
Date of death
17 December 1944
Place of death
Losheimergraben, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
C 3 5

Immediate family

Members
Mae Greenwood (mother)
James Greenwood (brother)
Carthell Greenwood (brother)
Myles Greenwood (brother)
Thelma Greenwood (sister)
Antonide Greenwood (sister)
William Greenwood (brother)

More information

Sgt Ralph J. Greenwood was one of five brothers in the Army. The other four came home, but two of them were wounded in action.

Source of information: Henri Hannon, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.fold3.com, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone Inscription and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil / 1930/1940 Census

Photo source: Astrid van Erp, Henri Hannon

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