Craig Robertson

Administrator
Staff member
  • SURNAME
Church
  • FORENAME
Thomas Edward
  • UNIT
1st Raider Battalion
  • RANK
Private
  • NUMBER
354597
  • DATE OF DEATH
10th August 1942
  • AGE
22
  • GRAVESITE
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. Plot A 700
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 18.02.1920
Next of kin - Mother, Mrs. Edna J. Church, 640 Washington Street, Brookline, Boston, Massachusetts
DOW Tulagi, Solomon Islands
 

DATE OF DEATH:

10-Aug-1942

FINDAGRAVE:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78883952/thomas-e-church

SERVICE HISTORY:

CHURCH Thomas E., Pvt 745 SN: 354597
Born: 18 Feb 1920 Falmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
Enlisted: 07 Jan 1942 DHS Boston, MA (Home of Record: 640 Washington St., Brookline, Boston, MA)
Died of Wounds: 10 Aug 1942 (WIA 8 Aug 1942, Tulagi Island, British Solomon Islands)
Interred: National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, HI (Section A, Site 700)

Headquarters, Eastern Recruiting Division, 1700 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA
Jan 1942 Pvt, Hq, ERD, Phila., PA “7Jan42; 7, Jd enl at DHS Boston, Mass. and tr to MB, Parris Island, S.C.”
11th Recruit Battalion, Recruit Depot, Marine Barracks, Parris Island, SC
Jan 1942 Pvt, 11thRecBn, RDep, MB, Parris Island, SC “7Jan42; 9, Jd enl at DHS Boston, Mass.; 31, trans to MB, Quantico, Va.”
Company G, The Training Center, Marine Barracks, Quantico, VA
Jan 1942 Pvt, Co G, TTC, MB, Quantico, VA “7Jan42; 31, jdfr 11thRecBn, RDep, MB, Parris Island, SC”

Company B, 1st Marine Raider Battalion, FMF, In the Field
Apr 1942 Pvt, Co B, 1stMarRdrBn, FMF, In the Field (Tutuila, Samoa) “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 B, 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 COLHOUN for spl assignment and sailed same date.”
Aug 1942 Pvt, Co B, 1stMarRdrBn, 1stMarDiv, FMF, In the Field (Tulagi Island, British Solomon Islands) “10, KIA
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