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Personal info

Full name
RYAN, Joseph William
Date of birth
4 April 1916
Age
28
Place of birth
New Berlin, Sangamon County, Illinois
Hometown
Morgan County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
36051182
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
261st Infantry Regiment,
65th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
17 March 1945
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 1 8

Immediate family

Members
Carl J. Ryan (father)
Alta P. (Lewis) Ryan (mother)
Ruth A. Ryan (sister)
Eulala H. (Baldwin) Ryan (wife)
Joyce G. Ryan (daughter)

More information

S/Sgt Joseph W. Ryan graduated from the Newton Bateman Memorial High School in 1934 and attended Illinois College for two years. He was employed at the Wabash Railway Company and married to Eulala H. Baldwin on 11 July 1942.

He enlisted in Peoria, Illinois on 13 March 1941.

S/Sgt Ryan is remembered at Diamond Grove Cemetery in Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois with a memorial marker.

Source of information: Nick Lieten, www.abmc.gov, www.findagrave.com, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Card / 1920/1930/1940 Census, www.newspapers.com - Jacksonville Courier 28 June 1970, www.65thdiv.com
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery / R & C, The Jacksonville Daily Journal - 8 November 1946, Newton Bateman Memorial High School 1934