Reinhard Albrecht Alter was born May 4, 1919 to Ernest F. and Flora Kalkwarf Alter. He died Feb. 7, 1943 and is memorialized at the Tablets of the Missing, East Coast Memorial, Manhattan, New York and in Salem Cemetery, Grundy County, IA.
Pvt. Alter served in World War II with the U.S. Army Ordnance Dept. and died as the result of enemy action in the North Atlantic Ocean. He was a passenger on a ship which was attacked by an enemy submarine.
Source: ancestry.com
