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Thomas Virgil Ratcliffe
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1st Trench Mortar Battery, 1st Infantry Division
Date of Death:
1918-02-21
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Alabama
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Thomas Virgil Ratcliffe was born on December 19, 1895 in Bessemer, Jefferson County, Alabama, son of Thomas A. and Rebeccva Ratcliffe. He served in the U.S. Army during World War I as a Private in 1st Trench Mortar Battery, 1st Infantry Division. He was Killed in Action on February 21, 1918 in France at the age of 22 but his current burial place is unknown. His name is commemorated on the First Infantry Division monument in Vigneulles, France but his surname is inscribed as Ratcliff.