Ralph Palmer Ford, Jr.

  • Citadel Class 1936
  • Date of Death 15-dec-44
  • Service USA
  • War World War II
  • Cemetery Manila
  • Rank abbr. 1LT

  • Age 31
  • Date of birth 30-Dec-13
  • Born in Charlotte
  • Hometown Charlotte
  • Family Walter A. Ford (father), Nannie Rhyne Ford (mother), Capt. Walter A. Ford, Jr. (brother)
  • Service Number S/N O-341515
  • Enlistment date jan-41
  • Function CAC Coastal Artillery Corps
  • Regiment 91st Coast Artillery Regiment Phillipine Scouts
  • Theater Pacific
  • Status KIA/POW
  • Casualty details KIA, Pacific Oryko Maru
  • Place of death Died on Enowra Maru enroute to Japan
  • Grave number Tablets of the Missing / Buried at Sea
  • Biography Cenotaph: Elmwood Cemetery, Charlott, Mecklenburg County, NC, USA