Family Learns Officer Dead
War Department Says Lt. Ralph Brennan Killed
First Lt. Ralph T. "Frosty" Brennan, 32, previously reported missing in action on Sept. 11, was killed in action in France, Sept. 12, according to a War department telegram received by his sister, Miss Margaret Brennan, 451 W. McKibben-st.
Wounded in action July 15, Lt. Brennan, an infantry officer, had returned to active combat duty following his recovery in an English hospital, just a few days before the War department issued the missing in action report.
He was outstanding in athletics in St. Rose school from which he graduated in the class of 1931. He also was a graduate of Providence college, Providence, R.I. Prior to entering the service over three years ago, he was employed in the American Railway Express Co. of Providence.
Brennan received his second lieutenant's commission Sept. 15, 1942, and was promoted to first lieutenant March 1, 1943. He was transferred overseas in May, 1944.
Surviving in addition to his sister Margaret, are three brothers, the Very Rev. R. E. Brennan, O.P., University of Montreal, Alfred of Burlington, Wis., and Cyril of Lima; another sister, Sister Mary Alfred, O.P., of McKees Rocks, Pa., near Pittsburgh. His father, Edward, died a year ago.
(published in The Lima News, Friday, October 6, 1944)
War Department Says Lt. Ralph Brennan Killed
First Lt. Ralph T. "Frosty" Brennan, 32, previously reported missing in action on Sept. 11, was killed in action in France, Sept. 12, according to a War department telegram received by his sister, Miss Margaret Brennan, 451 W. McKibben-st.
Wounded in action July 15, Lt. Brennan, an infantry officer, had returned to active combat duty following his recovery in an English hospital, just a few days before the War department issued the missing in action report.
He was outstanding in athletics in St. Rose school from which he graduated in the class of 1931. He also was a graduate of Providence college, Providence, R.I. Prior to entering the service over three years ago, he was employed in the American Railway Express Co. of Providence.
Brennan received his second lieutenant's commission Sept. 15, 1942, and was promoted to first lieutenant March 1, 1943. He was transferred overseas in May, 1944.
Surviving in addition to his sister Margaret, are three brothers, the Very Rev. R. E. Brennan, O.P., University of Montreal, Alfred of Burlington, Wis., and Cyril of Lima; another sister, Sister Mary Alfred, O.P., of McKees Rocks, Pa., near Pittsburgh. His father, Edward, died a year ago.
(published in The Lima News, Friday, October 6, 1944)
Family Learns Officer Dead
War Department Says Lt. Ralph Brennan Killed
First Lt. Ralph T. "Frosty" Brennan, 32, previously reported missing in action on Sept. 11, was killed in action in France, Sept. 12, according to a War department telegram received by his sister, Miss Margaret Brennan, 451 W. McKibben-st.
Wounded in action July 15, Lt. Brennan, an infantry officer, had returned to active combat duty following his recovery in an English hospital, just a few days before the War department issued the missing in action report.
He was outstanding in athletics in St. Rose school from which he graduated in the class of 1931. He also was a graduate of Providence college, Providence, R.I. Prior to entering the service over three years ago, he was employed in the American Railway Express Co. of Providence.
Brennan received his second lieutenant's commission Sept. 15, 1942, and was promoted to first lieutenant March 1, 1943. He was transferred overseas in May, 1944.
Surviving in addition to his sister Margaret, are three brothers, the Very Rev. R. E. Brennan, O.P., University of Montreal, Alfred of Burlington, Wis., and Cyril of Lima; another sister, Sister Mary Alfred, O.P., of McKees Rocks, Pa., near Pittsburgh. His father, Edward, died a year ago.
(published in The Lima News, Friday, October 6, 1944)
War Department Says Lt. Ralph Brennan Killed
First Lt. Ralph T. "Frosty" Brennan, 32, previously reported missing in action on Sept. 11, was killed in action in France, Sept. 12, according to a War department telegram received by his sister, Miss Margaret Brennan, 451 W. McKibben-st.
Wounded in action July 15, Lt. Brennan, an infantry officer, had returned to active combat duty following his recovery in an English hospital, just a few days before the War department issued the missing in action report.
He was outstanding in athletics in St. Rose school from which he graduated in the class of 1931. He also was a graduate of Providence college, Providence, R.I. Prior to entering the service over three years ago, he was employed in the American Railway Express Co. of Providence.
Brennan received his second lieutenant's commission Sept. 15, 1942, and was promoted to first lieutenant March 1, 1943. He was transferred overseas in May, 1944.
Surviving in addition to his sister Margaret, are three brothers, the Very Rev. R. E. Brennan, O.P., University of Montreal, Alfred of Burlington, Wis., and Cyril of Lima; another sister, Sister Mary Alfred, O.P., of McKees Rocks, Pa., near Pittsburgh. His father, Edward, died a year ago.
(published in The Lima News, Friday, October 6, 1944)
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