RAIDERS Dion, Hubert Edward

Craig Robertson

Administrator
Staff member
  • SURNAME
Dion
  • FORENAME
Hubert Edward
  • UNIT
4th Raider Battalion (Company HQ)
  • RANK
Corporal
  • NUMBER
425844
  • AWARD
Silver Star, Bronze Star
  • PLACE
New Georgia, Solomon Islands, 1st July 1943 (SS)
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
resided Lake Linden, Michigan
born 23.07.1914, Lake Linden, Michigan, USA
father Onezime Dion
mother Jane (nee Peppin) Dion
16.10.1942 draft card Lake Linden, Michigan
28.08.1942 entered service
WIA
20.06.1945 discharged
30.12.1944 married Carmen J. (nee Vollmer)
1 son (Tom), 1 daughter (Mary Ellen)
employed 25 years family logging and lumber business
employed 10 years as Maintenance Supervisor, Fresno State University
died 25.08.1996, Ventura, California, USA (Aged 82)
Santa Clara Cemetery, Oxnard, California, USA. Plot 91, T-7, Section G
 

CITATION:

Silver Star : The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star (Army Award) to Corporal Hubert E. Dion (MCSN: 425844), United States Marine Corps Reserve, for gallantry in action while serving with the Fourth Marine Raider Battalion at Vangunu, Solomon Islands, in locating and destroying three enemy machine-gun emplacements and killing two enemy snipers on 1 July 1943.

WEB LINKS:

https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/36069
https://marineraiderassociation.org/dion-hubert-e/

FINDAGRAVE:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/245590710/hubert-edward-dion
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