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Preferred Citation

David L. Ruffner collection, 1940-1957. MS 0338. VMI Archives, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia.

Biographical / Historical

David Lewis Ruffner was born in 1896 in Charleston, West Virginia. He graduated from VMI in 1917. From 1917 to 1953 he was an United States Army officer, and retired with the rank of Major General. Ruffner died in 1973 in Metarie, Louisiana.

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the professional and personal papers of David L. Ruffner, including: Two scrapbooks dating from his United States Army career. The first scrapbook (1943-1946) includes information about the 10th Mountain Division in Italy. The second scrapbook (1948-1950) covers his assignment at Nuremberg Military Post, Germany. A personal scrapbook and albums (circa 1947) Certificates and awards Photographs Field Artillery School Annual, "The Shrapnel" (1925) A guest book for Ruffner and his wife (1949-1957) Army personnel records

Separated Material

Medals and other artifacts are located in the VMI Museum.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Certificates
• Colorado -- Camp Hale
• Generals—United States—Biography
• Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone). -- Office of Military Government
• Germany -- Nuremberg
• Military records
• Scrapbooks
• United States. -- Army. -- Mountain Division, 10th
• United States. Army—Officers—Biography
• Virginia Military Institute—Alumni—Biography
• Virginia Military Institute—Class of 1917
• World War, 1939-1945—Campaigns—Italy