- SURNAME
Barr
- FORENAME
Woodrow Wilson
- UNIT
1st Raider Battalion
- RANK
Private First Class
- NUMBER
355620
- DATE OF DEATH
7th August 1942
- AGE
29
- GRAVESITE
Queens Meadow Point Cemetery, Keyser, West Virginia
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 30.06.1913, Keyser, West Virginia, USA
mother Cora Dell (nee Propst) Barr (1885-1961)
attended Keyser High School
employed by Celanese Corporation of America
Next of kin - Mother, Mrs Cora Dell Barr, 125 West Piedmont Street, Keyser, West Virginia
KIA Solomon Islands
Silver Star awarded posthumously
DATE OF DEATH:
07-Aug-1942CITATION:
Silver Star : The President of the United States of America takes pride in presenting the Silver Star (Posthumously) to Private First Class Woodrow Wilson Barr (MCSN: 355620), United States Marine Corps, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity as a member of Company C, First Marine Raider Battalion, in action during the attack on Tulagi, Solomon Islands, on 7 August 1942. Private Barr, a member of a small detachment ordered to envelope a hostile machine gun position, persisted in his advance against the enemy although exposed to severe small arms fire until he, himself, was killed, thereby assisting a great measure in the final destruction of the enemy machine gun group.
