Branch of Service
U.S. Marine Corps
Hometown
Knoxville, Tennessee
Honored By
Michael Hicks
DISCHARGED IN 1919 AFTER SERVING IN FRANCE DURING WWI. RE-ENTERED THE MILITARY IN SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, JANUARY 1942, AND WAS IMMEDIATELY GARRISONED AT THE WHIDBEY ISLAND NAVAL AIR STATION WITH THE RANK OF BUCK SERGEANT. BECAME TECHNICAL SERGEANT WITHIN ONE YEAR. WAS DISCHARGED HONORABLY AT THE END OF 1945.