RAIDERS Heffner, Robert Ellis

Craig Robertson

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Staff member
  • 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.
 

DATE OF DEATH:

03-Nov-1943

FINDAGRAVE:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118188401/robert-ellis-heffner

SERVICE HISTORY:

HEFFNER, Robert E., PFC 521/745(Rifleman) SN: 812238
Born: 12 Sep 1924 Newport, Campbell County, Kentucky
Enlisted USMC: 08 Jan 1943 (Home of Record: 218 E. 9th Street, Newport, Kentucky)
Died: 03 Nov 1943 (KIA, Bougainville Island, Solomon Islands)
Interred: Evergreen Cemetery, Southgate, Campbell County, KY (Section 61, Lot 153)

10th Recruit Battalion, Recruit Depot, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, CA
Jan 1943 Pvt, 10thRecBn, RD, MCB, San Diego, CA "8Jan43; 11, jdfr CRD; 8, enl DHS Cincinnati, Ohio"
Mar 1943 Pvt, 10thRecBn, RD, MCB, San Diego, CA "to HqCo, SerBn, MCB, San Diego, Calif."

Headquarters Company, Service Battalion, Marine Corps Base, San Diego, CA
Apr 1943 Pvt, HqCo, SerBn, MCB, San Diego, CA "1, to 24thMar(Rein), Camp Pendleton, Oceanside, Calif."
Company M, 3rd Battalion, 24th Marines, Reinforced, Camp Pendleton, Oceanside, CA
Apr 1943 Pvt, Co M, 3rdBn, 24thMar, Rein, Camp Pendleton, Oceanside, CA "8Jan43; 1, jdfr HqCo, SerBn, MCB, San Diego, Calif.; 17-20, sk RDisp, Post"

22nd Replacement Battalion, FMF, In the Field
Jul 1943 Pvt, 22ndReplBn, FMF, Aboard SS BLOEMFONTEIN (At Sea) "8Jan43; 1, emb and sailed from San Diego, Calif. aboard SS BLOEMFONTEIN; 25, to 3rdRdrBn, 1stMAC"

Company K, 3rd Raider Battalion, 1st Marine Raider Regiment, In the Field
Jul 1943 Pvt, Co K, 3rdRdrBn, 1stMarRdrRegt, In the Field (Noumea, New Caledonia) "8Jan43; 25, jdfr 22ndReplBn"
Company K, 3rd Raider Battalion, 2nd Marine Raider Regiment (Provisional), 1st Marine Amphib Corps
Oct 1943 PFC, Co K, 3rdRdrBn, 2ndMarRdrRegt (Prov), 1st MAC (Noumea, N.C. & Guadalcanal, B.S.I.) "6, Emb abd USS PRES. ADAMS at Noumea, N.C. and sailed therefrom on 7Oct43; 11, arr at Guadalcanal, B.S.I. and disemb same date; 19, emb abd USS FULLER at Guadalcanal, B.S.I. and sailed therefrom same date."
Nov 1943 PFC, Co K, 3rdRdrBn, 2ndMarRdrRegt (Prov), 1st MAC (Bougainville, B.S.I.) "1-3, participated in offensive operations against Japanese forces in the vicinity of Empress Augusta Bay on Bougainville, B.S.I.; 3, Killed in Action
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