Craig Robertson

Administrator
Staff member
  • SURNAME
Butts
  • FORENAME
Leonard James
  • UNIT
1st Raider Battalion
  • RANK
Private
  • NUMBER
349306
  • DATE OF DEATH
9th August 1942
  • AGE
19
  • GRAVESITE
Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, Manila, Philippines. Tablets of the Missing
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from Indiana
born 19.05.1923, Lost Creek, Vigo County, Indiana, USA
father Thomas F. Butts (1886-1957)
mother Clara Mary (nee Fagg) Butts (1888-1969)
Next of kin - Mother, Mrs. Clara M. Butts, 322 North 13th Street, Terre Haute, Indiana
DOW Tulagi, Solomon Islands (body not recovered)
 

DATE OF DEATH:

09-Aug-1942

FINDAGRAVE:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56759306/leonard-james-butts

SERVICE HISTORY:

BUTTS, Leonard J., Pvt 521/746 (Automatic Rifleman) SN: 349306
Born: May 19, 1923 Indiana
Enlisted USMC: 07 Jan 1942 (Home of Record: 322 N. 13th Street, Terre Haute, Indiana)
Died of Wounds: 9 Aug 1942 (WIA, Tulagi Island, British Solomon Islands)
Interred: Buried at sea by US Naval authority. His name is inscribed on the Tablets of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, Manila, Philippine Islands

Central Recruiting Division, 206 US Court House Building, Chicago, IL
Jan 1942 Pvt, CRD, Chicago, IL “7Jan42; 7, Jd enl at DHS Indianapolis, Ind.. and tr to MB, PI, SC same date”
8th Recruit Battalion, Recruit Depot, Marine Barracks, Parris Island, SC
Jan 1942 Pvt, 8thRecBn, RDep, MB, Parris Island, SC “7Jan42; 9, Jd enl at RS Indianapolis, Ind.; 31, to MB, Quantico, Va. for RR Inst.”
Company G, The Training Center, Marine Barracks, Quantico, VA
Jan 1942 Pvt, Co G, TTC, MB, Quantico, VA “7Jan42; 31, jdfr 8thRecBn, RDep, MB, Parris Island, SC”

Company A, 1st Marine Raider Battalion, FMF, In the Field
Apr 1942 Pvt, Co A, 1stMarRdrBn, FMF, In the Field (Tutuila, Samoa) “1, rated spl 6cl (BAR); 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, Co A, 1stMarRdrBn, FMF, In the Field (Tutuila, Samoa & Noumea, New Caledonia) “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; 23, emb on bd USS LITTLE for spl assignment and sailed same date.”
Aug 1942 Pvt, Co A, 1stMarRdrBn, 1stMarDiv, FMF, In the Field (Tulagi, British Solomon Is) “8, Wounded in Action; 9, Died of Wounds
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