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Personal info

Full name
GALBRAITH, Elmer Rickey
Date of birth
30 January 1913
Age
31
Place of birth
Mason, Braken County, Kentucky
Hometown
Hamilton County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
15112790
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
C Battery,
376th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion,
82nd Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
1 October 1944
Place of death
Groesbeek-Dekkerswald, the Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
G 4 6

Immediate family

Members
Mathew E. Galbraith (father)
Mary S. (Woodward) Galbraith (mother)
Dora F. Galbraith (sister)
J.W. Blain Galbraith (brother)
Lena M. Galbraith (sister)
Henry K. Galbraith (brother)

More information

Pvt Elmer R. Galbraith was employed at General Motors.

He enlisted at Fort Thomas, Kentucky on 1 April 1942. He was sent overseas in April 1943. He participated in the Sicilian campaign, before being sent to France.

Pvt Galbraith was killed by artillery fire.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.fold3.com, www.marketgarden.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Kentucky, Birth Index / 1930 Census, www.newspapers.com - The Cincinnati Enquirer

Photo source: Ronald Buckler