Veteran Honorees

Each year the Union County Veterans Remembrance Committee selects one or more Union County veterans to be honored at the annual Veterans Day ceremony at the Courthouse Veterans Monument. Browse the honorees by year below.

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2018
Ralph Ewing
2018 Veteran Honoree: Ralph Ewing Veteran First Name Ralph Veteran Middle Name C. Veteran Last Name Ewing Picture Date of Birth 1900 Highest Rank Private First Class Branch of Army Yes Unit(s) Co. E, 4th Infantry Regiment; Co. E, 166th Infantry Regiment, 42nd Division Active Service from Year 06/19/1917 Active Service to Year 10/27/1918 World War I Yes KIA Yes KIA/DIS/POW When 10/27/1918 KIA/DIS/POW Where France Township of residence entering service Paris Township of current residence or at time of death UNKNOWN Cemetery Paris Twp: Oakdale Date of Death 10/2…
2018 Veteran Honoree: Ralph Ewing Veteran First Name Ralph Veteran Middle Name C. Veteran Last Name Ewing Picture Date of Birth 1900 Highest Rank Private First Class Branch of Army Yes Unit(s) Co. E, 4th Infantry Regiment; Co. E, 166th Infantry Regiment, 42nd Division Active Service from Year 06/19/1917 Active Service to Year 10/27/1918 World War I Yes KIA Yes KIA/DIS/POW When 10/27/1918 KIA/DIS/POW Where France Township of residence entering service Paris Township of current residence or at time of death UNKNOWN Cemetery Paris Twp: Oakdale Date of Death 10/27/1918 Source 1 Milford Center Monument; Union Co. Cem. Rec., Vol. 6, p. 45; Ohio Soldiers in WWI, 1917-1918 Source 2 No DD-214 recorded as of 10/19/2007 in Union co. Recorder's Office Notes 1 enlisted 6/19/1917, Marysville, OH; wounded 6/21/1918; killed in action; body returned to U.S. on U.S.S. Wheaton, October 1921; interred in Oakdale Cemetery, 10/30/1921; cemetery records list DOB as 1898 Notes 2 father, Charles Ewing, Marysville, OH, notified of death; KIA <footer id="
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