CYNTHIANA — Sidney Marshall Ewalt, 52, Lair Station retired Harrison Rural Electric Cooperative employee, husband of Mrs. Cora Davis Ewalt died Tuesday after a several months’ illness. Services 2 pm Thursday at Whaley Funeral Home here. Burial in Battle Grove Cemetery. Visitation after 4 pm today at the funeral home.

Lexington Herald-Leader, Lexington, KY, 03 Mar 1976, Wed. Page 12]

[courtesy of Cathy Case Muntz]

Grave marker for Sidney M.. Ewalt in Section O, Lot 300, Battle Grove Cemetery, Cynthiana (Harrison county), Kentucky..

Sidney enlisted at Fort Benjamin Harrison, IN on 2 October 1942.

On 23 October Pvt Ewalt was transferred from Fort Benjamin Harrison to Hq 1st, 508th PIR.

Pvt Ewalt was sent on Detached Service to The Citadel, Charleston, SC on 20 July 1943.

On 29 July 1943, he was transferred from The Citadel to Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, PA for further training.

In February 1945 Pfc Ewalt was wounded in action suffering multiple penetrating wounds in his thigh; abdomen, abdominal wall and pelvis when he was hit by artillery shell fragments.

He was released from a hospital in the U.S. in November 1945 and discharged from the Army on the 21st of that same month.

*  ASTP - Army Specialized Training Program