Timeline
Burial
Remembered on the Tablets of the Missing, an American Battle Monument, North Africa American Cemetery in Carthage Tunisia.
Birth - 1914
Kansas
Marriage - 1930 - Age: 16 years
Kansas City, Missouri
Roy Louis Rice
1939 - 1945 World War II - Age: 30 years
Army Serial Number
A-709161
Source Of Army Personnel
Civil Life
Branch
Army
Army Component
Women's Army Corps
Army Branch
Women's Army Corps
Conflict Period
World War II
Served For
United States of America
Gold Star
Gold Star
Rank
Private First Class
Enlistment - 29 Apr 1944 - Age: 30 years
Kansas City Missouri
Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law
Award
Purple Heart
World War II Victory Medal
American Campaign Medal
Army Presidential Unit Citation
Army Good Conduct Medal
European African Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
Stationed
Des Moines, Iowa
Accra , British West Africa
Marriage - 10 Jun 1944 - Age: 30 years
Divorced from Roy Louis Rice
Death - 30 May 1945 - Age: 31 years
Plane lost over the sea.
Off the Coast of Ghana, Africa
Other Facts
Occupation
Sales clerks
Race Or Ethnicity
White
Residence
Wyandotte County, Kansas
Level Of Education
3 years of high school
Marital Status
Separated, without dependents
Full Name
Mildred E Rice
Source Information
0015
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Also Known As
Mildred Higgins
Father
Rheubin Lee Higgins
Full Name
Mildred Ethel Higgins Rice
Mother
Mary Ethel Wood
Sibling
Henry Franklin "Frank" Higgins, 1911, Wilma Jean Higgins Butts, 1923, Hazel May Higgins Price, 1927 and Virginia Lee Higgins Barton, 1929
