- SURNAME
Heffner
- FORENAME
Robert Ellis
- UNIT
3rd Raider Battalion (Company K)
- RANK
Private First Class
- NUMBER
812238
- DATE OF DEATH
3rd November 1943
- AGE
19
- GRAVESITE
Evergreen Cemetery, Southgate, Kentucky, USA. Section 61, Lot 153
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 12.09.1924, Newport, Kentucky, USA
father Herbert Heffner, 316 Stokesay Avenue, Ludlow
attended Newport High School
brother Arthur Heffner also Marine
employed by Eddie Resenbeck
Next of kin - Mother, Mrs. Bessie Fields, 218 East 9th Street, Newport, Kentucky
18.12.1942 enlisted Kentucky
KIA Puruata Island, Solomon Islands
Although the night of November 2-3 began quietly enough, at around 0200 a flight of enemy bombers swooped down on the beachhead from the north, dropping several bombs on the mainland and on Puruata Island and disturbing everyone's
rest. One bomb made a near-direct hit on the 90mm anti-aircraft gun position on Puruata Island, wounding and killing several Marines of the 3rd Defense Battalion and killing two Company "K" Raiders, Pharmacist's Mate Second Class, Cecil L. Mangum and Private First Class, Robert E. Heffner.
