Name:
Ruel W. Day
Rank:
Private
Serial Number:
Unit:
1st Engineer Combat Battalion, 1st Infantry Division
Date of Death:
1918-09-12
State:
California
Cemetery:
San Francisco National Cemetery, California
Plot:
Section A Site 94
Row:
Grave:
Decoration:
Comments:
When Ruel William Day was born on October 31, 1886, in California, his father, Richard, was 27 and his mother, Elizibeth, was 28. He had three brothers. He served in the U.S. Army during World War I as a Private in Company A, 1st Engineer Combat Battalion, 1st Infantry Division. He was Killed in Action on September 12, 1918 and is now buried in San Francisco National Cemetery, San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA. He also has a cenotaph in Shields-Studebaker Cemetery, Mendocino County, California, USA.