Private Ralph Weir 38009164 KIA

Private Ralph Weir 38009164 KIA US Army. Born 18 April 1915 in Aguilar, Colorado. Attended school in La Veta, Colorado, and was in the trucking business prior to entering service on 22 September 1941, at the age of 26. He received his training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; and served overseas with Battery C, 979th Field Artillery Battalion He took part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy, (ETO) and fought in France, Belgium and Holland. Killed in action on 27 September 1944, at the age of 29, in Holland, and posthumously awarded the Purple Heart Medal (PHM) . He was the son of Helen S. and Robert Weir of La Veta. 

Source:

1- THE FIGHTING MEN OF Colorado – Asiatic-Pacific Theater World War Two – 1948

2- US Headstone and Interment records for US Military.

3- https://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=893&mtch=5&cat=all&tf=F&q=Ralph+Weir&bc=sd&rpp=10&pg=1&rid=7020525&rlst=7020525,2445444,3345061,5691832,6602970