PARAMARINES Hennessy, James Francis

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Hennessy ​

• FORENAME

James Francis​

• UNIT

1 Marine Parachute Bn (Company A) ​

• RANK

Sergeant ​

• NUMBER

252907 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

7th August 1942 ​

• AGE

24​

• GRAVESITE

National Memorial Cemetery, Honolulu, Hawaii Plot N Grave 22 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania​

born 13.03.1918​

14.05.1936 entered service Philadelphia, Pennsylvania​

son of James P. Hennessy, 6000 Greenway Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania​

KIA Gavutu, Solomon Islands ​

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[Jim Wilkening]

Sgt. James F. Hennessy is my great uncle. My grandmother raised him with my mother and her brothers when his mother died. My mother had a close relationship with him and named me after him. I have letters he wrote to her from 1936, when he was in Cuba with Foxtrot 2/5, until his death on Gavutu, with 1st Paramarines. Here is another picture of him.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8678849@N02/5586449917/in/photostream