- SURNAME
Hancock
- FORENAME
Elzie Jackson, Jr.
- UNIT
4th Raider Battalion (Company C)
- RANK
Private First Class
- NUMBER
418893
- AWARD
Silver Star
- PLACE
Bairoko Harbour, New Georgia, 20th July 1943
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
KIA - See Roll of Honour
ROLL OF HONOUR:
https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?threads/hancock-elzie-jackson-jr.58347/CITATION:
Silver Star : The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pride in presenting the Silver Star (Army Award) (Posthumously) to Private First Class Elzie J. Hancock, Jr. (MCSN: 418893), United States Marine Corps Reserve, for gallantry in action while serving with the Fourth Marine Raider Battalion at Bairiki Harbor, New Georgia, Solomon Islands on 20 July 1943. Exposing himself to relentless enemy fire with no concern for his own safety he kept the right and left flanks of his company in contact with each other and through times guided them into position for assaults on a Japanese machine gun emplacement that threatened devastating flanking fire on an entire battalion. Private Hancock was killed while leading a charge which silenced the enemy guns.
WEB LINKS:
https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/36676FINDAGRAVE:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102821707/elzie-jackson-hancock
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