DH
- Branch of Service
- Marine Corps
- Rank
- Corporal
- Unit
- U. S. Marine Corps Reserve
- Conflict / Era
- World War II
- Date of Birth
- 07/27/1915
- Date of Death
- 11/21/1944
- Hometown
- Claibourne, OH
- Burial Location
- Claibourne Twp: Bethlehem (Claibourne Cemetery)
- Monument Paver
- No
- Township (entering service)
- Claibourne
- Township (current / at death)
- UNKNOWN
- School
- UNKNOWN
- Status
- Died in Service
- When
- 11/21/1944
- Where
- New River, NC
- Record Authenticated
- Yes
Biography
School: UNKNOWN. was one of 28 men out of a group of 400 on Midway who survived; wounded three times, MIA for six months; expert in demolition work; killed in accidental explosion buried in Row 3, Claibourne Cemetery; DNB/DIS; Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Chandler, Richwood, notified of death
Source: No DD-214 recorded in the Union Co. Recorder's Office as of 26 October 2007; G.W. Claar; Esther Carmany; Union Co. Journal, July 1943-March 1945; Union Co. Cem. Rec., Vol. 1, p. 63 | Ancestry - Headstone Application for Military Veterans