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SGT Melvin Herbert Rupert

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SGT Melvin Herbert Rupert Veteran

Birth
Dodge City, Ford County, Kansas, USA
Death
27 Jul 1944 (aged 26)
Papua New Guinea
Burial
Manila, Capital District, National Capital Region, Philippines Add to Map
Plot
Block A Row 9 Grave 14
Memorial ID
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U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #37016999
Entered the Service from: Kansas
127th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division
Awards: Purple Heart

Melvin H. Rupert is listed as Died Of Wounds in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Ford County, Kansas.

U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 lists his residence as 701 West, Bentonville, Benton County, Arkansas. Contact person listed as Mr. James Douglas Mahurin (Friend) of same address. Place of birth listed as Dodge City, Kansas on 07/24/1918. Name listed on form as Melvin Herbert Rupert. Not employed as of 10/16/1940 registration date.

U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949 lists the name and address of his Next of Kin as:

Mr. Herbert S. Rupert
1011 3rd Street
Dodge City, Kansas

***I would like to thank gracedv Find A Grave ID 48727850 for adding her gravesite photo to this memorial***
U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #37016999
Entered the Service from: Kansas
127th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division
Awards: Purple Heart

Melvin H. Rupert is listed as Died Of Wounds in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Ford County, Kansas.

U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 lists his residence as 701 West, Bentonville, Benton County, Arkansas. Contact person listed as Mr. James Douglas Mahurin (Friend) of same address. Place of birth listed as Dodge City, Kansas on 07/24/1918. Name listed on form as Melvin Herbert Rupert. Not employed as of 10/16/1940 registration date.

U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949 lists the name and address of his Next of Kin as:

Mr. Herbert S. Rupert
1011 3rd Street
Dodge City, Kansas

***I would like to thank gracedv Find A Grave ID 48727850 for adding her gravesite photo to this memorial***

Inscription

MELVIN H. RUPERT
SGT 127 INF 32 DIV
KANSAS JULY 27 1944



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  • Maintained by: Eric Ackerman
  • Originally Created by: War Graves
  • Added: Aug 8, 2010
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56763176/melvin_herbert-rupert: accessed ), memorial page for SGT Melvin Herbert Rupert (24 Jul 1918–27 Jul 1944), Find a Grave Memorial ID 56763176, citing Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, Manila, Capital District, National Capital Region, Philippines; Maintained by Eric Ackerman (contributor 48445240).