Craig Robertson

Administrator
Staff member
  • SURNAME
Walsh
  • FORENAME
Patrick Joseph
  • UNIT
1st Raider Battalion (Company C)
  • RANK
Private
  • NUMBER
372925
  • DATE OF DEATH
8th August 1942
  • AGE
30
  • GRAVESITE
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Plot P,1148
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 17.03.1912, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
graduated Lincoln School
graduated South Boston High School
employed by Boston Woven Hose Company, Cambridge
16.10.1940 draft card Boston, Massachusetts
27.01.1942 entered service USMC
04.1942 1st Raider Bn.
Next of kin - Sister. Miss Mary Walsh, 66 Humphreys Street, Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts
KIA Tulagi, Solomon Islands
 

DATE OF DEATH:

08-Aug-1942

FINDAGRAVE:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3795849/patrick-joseph-walsh

SERVICE HISTORY:

WALSH, Patrick J., Pvt 521/745 SN: 372925
Born: 17 Mar 1912 Massachusetts
Enlisted: 27 Jan 1942 DHS Boston, MA (Home of Record: 63 Humphreys Street, Dorchester, Boston, MA)
Died: 08 Aug 1942 (KIA, Tulagi Island, British Solomon Islands)
Interred: National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, HI (Section P, Site 1148)

Headquarters, Eastern Recruiting Division, 1700 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA
Jan 1942 Pvt, Hq, ERD, Phila., PA “27Jan42; 27, Jd enl at DHS Boston, Mass. and 28, tr to MB, Parris Island, S.C.”
8th Recruit Battalion, Recruit Depot, Marine Barracks, Parris Island, SC
Jan 1942 Pvt, 8thRecBn, RDep, MB, Parris Island, SC “27Jan42; 29, Jd enl at DHS Boston, Mass.”

Company C, 1st Marine Raider Battalion, FMF, In the Field
Apr 1942 Pvt, Co C, 1stMarRdrBn, FMF, In the Field (Tutuila, Samoa) "1, entrained at MB, Quantico, Va.; 1-3, enroute; 4, arr & detrained at MCB, San Diego, Calif.; 4-11, 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; 29, on bd USS ZEILIN at NS, Tutuila, Samoa; 30, disemb & encamped at Tutuila, Samoa”
Jul 1942 Pvt, Co C, 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 GREGORY for spl assignment and sailed same date.”
Aug 1942 Pvt, Co C, 1stMarRdrBn, 1stMarDiv, FMF, In the Field (Tulagi, British Solomon Is) “8, Killed in Action
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