RAIDERS Bowers, Kenneth Stewart

Craig Robertson

Administrator
Staff member
  • SURNAME
Bowers
  • FORENAME
Kenneth Stewart
  • UNIT
1st Raider Battalion (Company D)
  • RANK
Private
  • NUMBER
359034
  • DATE OF DEATH
7th August 1942
  • AGE
21
  • GRAVESITE
Belfast Union Cemetery, Belfast, Pennsylvania. Section C Right
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 03.05.1921, Stockertown, Pennsylvania, USA
father Fred E. Bowers (1892-1952)
mother Lillie May (nee Hearn) Bowers (1893-1968)
Next of kin - Mother, Mrs. Lillie Bowers, Route 3, Nazareth, Pennsylvania
enlisted 14.01.1942
KIA Tulagi, Solomon Islands
 

DATE OF DEATH:

07-Aug-1942

FINDAGRAVE:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/171326629/kenneth-s-bowers

SERVICE HISTORY:

BOWERS, Kenneth S., Pvt 521/745 (Rifleman) SN: 359034
Born: 03 May 1921 Stockertown, Pennsylvania
Enlisted USMCR: 14 Jan 1942 (Home of Record: Rt. 3, Nazareth, Pennsylvania)
Died: 07 Aug 1942 (KIA, Tulagi Island, British Solomon Islands)
Interred:
Union Cemetery,
Belfast Rd
Belfast, Northampton County, PA 18064

Eastern Recruiting Division, 1700 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA
Jan 1942 Pvt, ERD, Phila., PA “14Jan42; 14, Jdenl at DHS Philadelphia, Pa.. and tr to MB, PI, SC same date”
10th Recruit Battalion, Recruit Depot, Marine Barracks, Parris Island, SC
Jan 1942 Pvt, 10thRecBn, RDep, MB, Parris Island, SC “14Jan42; 15, Jdenl fr DHS Philadelphia, Pa.”

Company D, Rear Echelon, 1st Marine Raider Battalion, Marine Barracks, Quantico, VA
Apr 1942 Pvt, Co D, Rear Echelon, 1stMarRdrBn, MB, Quantico, VA “1-20, at MB, Quantico, Va.; 21-30, abd USS MC KEAN and USS STRINGHAM conn trng exercises; 30, disemb at MB, Quantico, Va.”
Company D, 1st Marine Raider Battalion, 1st Marine Division, FMF, In the Field
Jul 1942 Pvt, Co D, 1stMarRdrBn, FMF, In the Field (Tutuila, Samoa & Noumea, New Caledonia) “1-4, (Rear Echelon)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; 23, emb on bd USS MC KEAN for spl assignment and sailed same date.”
Aug 1942 Pvt, Co D, 1stMarRdrBn, 1stMarDiv, FMF, In the Field (Tulagi, British Solomon Is) “7, Killed in Action
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