Ralph Delp

Company D 1st Battalion 22nd Infantry

4th Infantry Division

KIA 06/07/1944

Ralph Delp was born in Sterling Township, Whiteside County, Illinois on March 9, 1919.

In the records of the 22nd Infantry he listed his home of residence as Rock Falls, Whiteside County, Illinois.
His religion was listed as Protestant.

His Army Service Number indicates he enlisted in the Regular Army before the Selective Service Act
was created in late 1940.

Sandi Smith on the Genealogy Trails website stated that Delp enlisted in the Army
at Fort McClellan, Ala., June 14, 1940 and was assigned to the 22nd Infantry. ¹

Documents scanned by John Tomawski at the National Archives show that Delp was awarded the Good Conduct Medal
in General Orders No. 14, Headquarters 22nd Infantry at Fort Jackson, South Carolina December 31, 1943.

Delp was awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge in Paragraph 1 General Orders #7 Headquarters 22nd Infantry
dated September 28, 1944 with an effective date of the award as June 6, 1944.

Corporal Delp was killed in action in Normandy, France, during 1st Battalion's
attack against the German coastal battery at Crisbecq on June 7, 1944.

Decorations of Ralph Delp

Ralph Delp was originally buried in the temporary military cemetery at Sainte Mere Eglise
Cemetery #1 at Carentan, France in Block I Row 3 Grave 44. His remains were later
reinterred in the permanent cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer in the 1947-1949 time frame, when the
temporary cemeteries were shut down.

Burial:
Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial
Colleville-sur-Mer
Departement du Calvados
Basse-Normandie, France
Plot E Row 9 Grave 10

Grave marker for Ralph Delp

Photo by

John Tomawski

and

Andreia Lino

Top photo of Ralph Delp from the Sterling Daily Gazette Sterling, Illinois May 7, 1945

¹ Genealogy Trails website

This page was prepared with the assistance of Julien Woestyn

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