USMCR World War II
USNA Class 1919
CAPT Turner W. Battle died of wounds New River, NC, January 1, 1944
Unit AA Battery Artillery Battalion, TC, FMF,
Hometown: Sharpsburg, Nash, North Carolina,
Wife Helen Staats Battle m1920 Div.
service# 11302
Awards: Purple Heart
Details of career here.
CAPT Turner Westray Battle Sr was born on 3 June 1899, in Rocky Mount Township, Edgecombe, North Carolina, United States, his father, Jacob Battle Jr, was 24 and his mother, Nell Gray Gupton, was 23. He married Helen Staats on 6 November 1920, in Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Sharpsburg, Nash, North Carolina, United States in 1900 and Rocky Mount, Nash, North Carolina, United States for about 34 years. He registered for military service in 1916. He died on 1 January 1944, in Jacksonville, Onslow, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Battle Cemetery, Whitakers, Nash, North Carolina, United States.
Turner Westray Battle, assistant to the U.S. secretary of labor, was born in Rocky Mount, the son of Jacob and Nell Gray Gupton Battle. The third Turner Westray Battle, he was a student at Staunton Military Academy from 1913 to 1916 and was graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1919.
He served in the Pacific Fleet first as assistant engineer officer on the U.S.S. Arkansas, then as chief engineer of the U.S.S. Meyer, and then as commanding officer of the U.S.S. Duncan. After resigning from the Navy in 1921, he became associated with the Socony Burner Corporation. He later was made a district manager of the International Combustion Engineering Corporation of New York.
In 1933, Battle was appointed executive assistant in the Department of Labor under Frances Perkins. Among his other assignments there, he served as president of the U.S. Housing Corporation, the representative of the secretary of labor on the Special Board for Public Works, a member of the Interdepartmental Shipping Policy Committee, a member of the Committee to Designate Airports of Entry, and the representative of the Labor Department on the Works Progress Board.
However, soon after Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the Marine Corps and early in 1942 was commissioned first lieutenant. He saw active duty in the South Pacific; while there, he was promoted to the rank of captain. He died at Camp Lejeune and was interred in the old Battle burial ground near Cool Spring Plantation in Edgecombe County.
Battle was married twice. His first marriage, on 6 Nov. 1920, was to Helen Staats of Pasadena, Calif., daughter of William Richardson and Isabelle Lawton Staats. They had one son, Turner Westray Battle IV. Battle married, second, Mary Patton of Huntsville, Ala., on 9 Aug. 1936. He was a lifelong Episcopalian and Democrat.
USNA Class 1919
CAPT Turner W. Battle died of wounds New River, NC, January 1, 1944
Unit AA Battery Artillery Battalion, TC, FMF,
Hometown: Sharpsburg, Nash, North Carolina,
Wife Helen Staats Battle m1920 Div.
service# 11302
Awards: Purple Heart
Details of career here.
CAPT Turner Westray Battle Sr was born on 3 June 1899, in Rocky Mount Township, Edgecombe, North Carolina, United States, his father, Jacob Battle Jr, was 24 and his mother, Nell Gray Gupton, was 23. He married Helen Staats on 6 November 1920, in Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Sharpsburg, Nash, North Carolina, United States in 1900 and Rocky Mount, Nash, North Carolina, United States for about 34 years. He registered for military service in 1916. He died on 1 January 1944, in Jacksonville, Onslow, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Battle Cemetery, Whitakers, Nash, North Carolina, United States.
Turner Westray Battle, assistant to the U.S. secretary of labor, was born in Rocky Mount, the son of Jacob and Nell Gray Gupton Battle. The third Turner Westray Battle, he was a student at Staunton Military Academy from 1913 to 1916 and was graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1919.
He served in the Pacific Fleet first as assistant engineer officer on the U.S.S. Arkansas, then as chief engineer of the U.S.S. Meyer, and then as commanding officer of the U.S.S. Duncan. After resigning from the Navy in 1921, he became associated with the Socony Burner Corporation. He later was made a district manager of the International Combustion Engineering Corporation of New York.
In 1933, Battle was appointed executive assistant in the Department of Labor under Frances Perkins. Among his other assignments there, he served as president of the U.S. Housing Corporation, the representative of the secretary of labor on the Special Board for Public Works, a member of the Interdepartmental Shipping Policy Committee, a member of the Committee to Designate Airports of Entry, and the representative of the Labor Department on the Works Progress Board.
However, soon after Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the Marine Corps and early in 1942 was commissioned first lieutenant. He saw active duty in the South Pacific; while there, he was promoted to the rank of captain. He died at Camp Lejeune and was interred in the old Battle burial ground near Cool Spring Plantation in Edgecombe County.
Battle was married twice. His first marriage, on 6 Nov. 1920, was to Helen Staats of Pasadena, Calif., daughter of William Richardson and Isabelle Lawton Staats. They had one son, Turner Westray Battle IV. Battle married, second, Mary Patton of Huntsville, Ala., on 9 Aug. 1936. He was a lifelong Episcopalian and Democrat.
USMCR World War II
USNA Class 1919
CAPT Turner W. Battle died of wounds New River, NC, January 1, 1944
Unit AA Battery Artillery Battalion, TC, FMF,
Hometown: Sharpsburg, Nash, North Carolina,
Wife Helen Staats Battle m1920 Div.
service# 11302
Awards: Purple Heart
Details of career here.
CAPT Turner Westray Battle Sr was born on 3 June 1899, in Rocky Mount Township, Edgecombe, North Carolina, United States, his father, Jacob Battle Jr, was 24 and his mother, Nell Gray Gupton, was 23. He married Helen Staats on 6 November 1920, in Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Sharpsburg, Nash, North Carolina, United States in 1900 and Rocky Mount, Nash, North Carolina, United States for about 34 years. He registered for military service in 1916. He died on 1 January 1944, in Jacksonville, Onslow, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Battle Cemetery, Whitakers, Nash, North Carolina, United States.
Turner Westray Battle, assistant to the U.S. secretary of labor, was born in Rocky Mount, the son of Jacob and Nell Gray Gupton Battle. The third Turner Westray Battle, he was a student at Staunton Military Academy from 1913 to 1916 and was graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1919.
He served in the Pacific Fleet first as assistant engineer officer on the U.S.S. Arkansas, then as chief engineer of the U.S.S. Meyer, and then as commanding officer of the U.S.S. Duncan. After resigning from the Navy in 1921, he became associated with the Socony Burner Corporation. He later was made a district manager of the International Combustion Engineering Corporation of New York.
In 1933, Battle was appointed executive assistant in the Department of Labor under Frances Perkins. Among his other assignments there, he served as president of the U.S. Housing Corporation, the representative of the secretary of labor on the Special Board for Public Works, a member of the Interdepartmental Shipping Policy Committee, a member of the Committee to Designate Airports of Entry, and the representative of the Labor Department on the Works Progress Board.
However, soon after Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the Marine Corps and early in 1942 was commissioned first lieutenant. He saw active duty in the South Pacific; while there, he was promoted to the rank of captain. He died at Camp Lejeune and was interred in the old Battle burial ground near Cool Spring Plantation in Edgecombe County.
Battle was married twice. His first marriage, on 6 Nov. 1920, was to Helen Staats of Pasadena, Calif., daughter of William Richardson and Isabelle Lawton Staats. They had one son, Turner Westray Battle IV. Battle married, second, Mary Patton of Huntsville, Ala., on 9 Aug. 1936. He was a lifelong Episcopalian and Democrat.
USNA Class 1919
CAPT Turner W. Battle died of wounds New River, NC, January 1, 1944
Unit AA Battery Artillery Battalion, TC, FMF,
Hometown: Sharpsburg, Nash, North Carolina,
Wife Helen Staats Battle m1920 Div.
service# 11302
Awards: Purple Heart
Details of career here.
CAPT Turner Westray Battle Sr was born on 3 June 1899, in Rocky Mount Township, Edgecombe, North Carolina, United States, his father, Jacob Battle Jr, was 24 and his mother, Nell Gray Gupton, was 23. He married Helen Staats on 6 November 1920, in Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Sharpsburg, Nash, North Carolina, United States in 1900 and Rocky Mount, Nash, North Carolina, United States for about 34 years. He registered for military service in 1916. He died on 1 January 1944, in Jacksonville, Onslow, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Battle Cemetery, Whitakers, Nash, North Carolina, United States.
Turner Westray Battle, assistant to the U.S. secretary of labor, was born in Rocky Mount, the son of Jacob and Nell Gray Gupton Battle. The third Turner Westray Battle, he was a student at Staunton Military Academy from 1913 to 1916 and was graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1919.
He served in the Pacific Fleet first as assistant engineer officer on the U.S.S. Arkansas, then as chief engineer of the U.S.S. Meyer, and then as commanding officer of the U.S.S. Duncan. After resigning from the Navy in 1921, he became associated with the Socony Burner Corporation. He later was made a district manager of the International Combustion Engineering Corporation of New York.
In 1933, Battle was appointed executive assistant in the Department of Labor under Frances Perkins. Among his other assignments there, he served as president of the U.S. Housing Corporation, the representative of the secretary of labor on the Special Board for Public Works, a member of the Interdepartmental Shipping Policy Committee, a member of the Committee to Designate Airports of Entry, and the representative of the Labor Department on the Works Progress Board.
However, soon after Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the Marine Corps and early in 1942 was commissioned first lieutenant. He saw active duty in the South Pacific; while there, he was promoted to the rank of captain. He died at Camp Lejeune and was interred in the old Battle burial ground near Cool Spring Plantation in Edgecombe County.
Battle was married twice. His first marriage, on 6 Nov. 1920, was to Helen Staats of Pasadena, Calif., daughter of William Richardson and Isabelle Lawton Staats. They had one son, Turner Westray Battle IV. Battle married, second, Mary Patton of Huntsville, Ala., on 9 Aug. 1936. He was a lifelong Episcopalian and Democrat.
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