Craig Robertson

Administrator
Staff member
  • SURNAME
Fairbanks
  • FORENAME
Benjamin Warren
  • UNIT
1st Raider Battalion (HqCo)
  • RANK
Private
  • NUMBER
332392
  • DATE OF DEATH
7th August 1942
  • AGE
23
  • GRAVESITE
Golden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, California, USA. Plot D,491
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 18.10.1908
father Benjamin Selom Fairbanks, Jr (1880-1963)
mother Josephine Anne (nee McLean) Fairbanks (1887-1953)
Next of kin - Mother, Mrs. Josephine Fairbanks, Route 1, Seilersville, Pennsylvania
KIA Tulagi, Solomon Islands
 

DATE OF DEATH:

07-Aug-1942

FINDAGRAVE:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3572926/benjamin-w-fairbanks

SERVICE HISTORY:

FAIRBANKS, Benjamin W., Pvt 521/Comm Personnel SN: 332392
Born: 18 Oct 1908 White Earth, Minnesota
Enlisted USMCR: Dec 1941 (Home of Record: Magnolia Ave., Chicago, Illinois)
Died: 07 Aug 1942 (KIA, Tulagi Island, British Solomon Islands)
Interred: Golden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, CA (Section D, Site 491)

Central Recruiting Division, 206 US Court House Building, Chicago, IL
Dec 1941 Pvt, CRD, Chicago, IL “Dec41; Jd enl at DHS Chicago, Ill. and tr to MB, PI, SC same date”
3rd Recruit Battalion, Recruit Depot, Marine Barracks, Parris Island, SC
Dec 1941 Pvt, 3rdRecBn, RDep, MB, Parris Island, SC “Dec41; jdfr CRD, jdenl at DHS Chicago, Ill.”
Jan 1942 Pvt, 3rdRecBn, RDep, MB, Parris Island, SC “12, AAHA, Facts warr pres, frd enl”

Headquarters Company, 1st Marine Raider Battalion, FMF, In the Field
Apr 1942 Pvt, HqCo, 1stMarRdrBn, FMF, In the Field (Tutuila, Samoa) “(CP); 1, entrained at MB, Quantico, Va.; 1-5, enroute; 6, arr & detrained at MCB, San Diego, Calif.; 6-11, at MCB, San Diego, Calif.; 12, emb on bd USS ZEILIN at San Diego, Calif.; 13, sailed; 14-27, passage; 28, arr at NS, Tutuila, Samoa”
Jul 1942 Pvt, HqCo, 1stMarRdrBn, FMF, In the Field (Tutuila, Samoa & Noumea, New Caledonia) “(CP); 1-4, at Tutuila, Samoa; 4, emb on bd USS HEYWOOD for trans from Tutuila, Samoa to Noumea, New Caledonia; 5-9, underway; 10, arr at Noumea, New Caledonia; 11, disemb; 23, emb on bd USS Little for spl assignment and sailed same date.”
Aug 1942 Pvt, HqCo, 1stMarRdrBn, 1stMarDiv, FMF, In the Field (Tulagi, British Solomon Is) “(CP); 7, Killed in Action
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