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First name Middle name Last name Suffix — Jr. Sr. II III IV V Branch of service — Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Coast Guard Army National Guard Army Air Corps Merchant Marine Highest rank — Private Private First Class Specialist Corporal Lance Corporal Sergeant Staff Sergeant Gunnery Sergeant Sergeant First Class Master Sergeant First Sergeant Master Gunnery Sergeant Sergeant Major Command Sergeant Major Seaman Petty Officer Third Class Petty Officer Second Class Petty Officer First Class Chief Petty Officer Senior Chief Petty Officer Master Chief Petty Officer Airman Airman First Class Senior Airman Technical Sergeant Senior Master Sergeant Chief Master Sergeant Warrant Officer Chief Warrant Officer Second Lieutenant First Lieutenant Captain Major Lieutenant Colonel Colonel Ensign Lieutenant Junior Grade Lieutenant Lieutenant Commander Commander Brigadier General Major General Lieutenant General General Rear Admiral Vice Admiral Admiral Other Unit(s) Conflict / war — World War II World War I Korean War Vietnam War Persian Gulf War/Global War on Terrorism Cold War Afghanistan Iraq Spanish American War Civil War Mexican War Indian Wars War of 1812 Revolutionary War Peacetime Other Hometown Has a monument paver? — Yes No Paver section — Section A Section B Section C Section D Section E Section F Section G Section H Awards & decorations Purple Heart, Croix de Guerre (France) Overseas service Burial location Biography / notes Overseas service: Loraine, Champaigne, Chateau Thiery, St. Michiel, Argonne, France; Germany. Church: Trinity Lutheran Church, Marysville, Ohio; Caldwell Memorial Methodist Church, Irwin, Ohio. School: Union Local High School. Enlisted 05/30/1917, Marysville, Ohio; served as hand bomber while on active duty; received shrapnel wounds in right arm and left leg, 07/29/1918; honorably discharged 05/26/1919, Camp Sherman, Ohio; author of book, BILL, THE DOUGHBOY, a story of his personal experiences as a soldier in France and Germany; member of Ralph Berger Chapter, Rainbow Division, Infantry 166, 42nd Division; member of American Legion Post #79 8-26-2011 Certificate of Honorable Discharge removed from file (privacy law) by E Carmany Source of this information Veteran form submitted 04/06/2006 by granddaughter, Nancy Gabriel; Recorder's Certificate of Discharge, Union Co. Recorder's Office, Vol. 2, p. 293; obituary, Marysville Journal-Tribune, 07/17/1980