From Find A Grave member GKA:
Source: Biloxi Daily Herald, Carmichael, Biloxi, Mississippi: Wednesday, 7 Mar 1945), page 7: “Mark had edited and owned a weekly newspaper (The Light) in Bay St. Louis for six years, since he was 16 years old. He was born in Puerto Cortez, Honduras, and is survived by his wife, the former Irene Hanson of Pass Christian; his mother; his father, Dr. H. S. Carmichael, Belize, Br. Honduras, and by three brothers, Homer S. Carmichael Jr. and Henry E. Carmichael, both with the Merchant Marine, and Lucian R. Carmichael, Coast Guard, all overseas in the Pacific area.”
Source: Times-Picayune, (New Orleans, Louisiana: Tuesday, May 25, 1948), page 2: Carmichael - Killed in the service of his country in France, on November 30, 1944, a member of the 387th Group while returning from a raid over Germany. Mark B. Carmichael, aged 22 years, husband of Irene Hanson of Christian Pass, Miss; son of Jeanette C. Carmichael of Bay St. Louis Miss.; brother of Homer S. Carmichael of San Francisco Calif., Lucien and Henry Carmichael of Bay St. Louis Miss.
Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, May 26, 1948, at 11:30 o'clock a.m. from the chapel of the Vicksburg National cemetery, Vicksburg, Miss. The Army chaplain, assisted by Rev. Warwick Aiken, former Episcopal rector of Bay St. Louis Miss., will officiate.”
Source: Daily Herald, Posthumous Award Of Air Medal Made (Biloxi, Mississippi: Friday, July 20, 1945), Page 5.
" Announcement has been made by the commanding officer of Gulfport Army Air Field of the presentation of the Air Medal to Mrs. Irene Elizabeth Carmichael, 503 East Beach, Pass Christian, posthumously awarded to her husband, Sergeant Mark B. Carmichael.
The citation accompanying the medal read: “In recognition of meritorious achievement while participating in aerial flights in the European Theater of Operations, he having completed the required number of operational sorties against the enemy.
The award was made by a flying officer of Gulfport Field."
Note: Mark was one of the World War II dead returned from Epinol, France to be re-interred at Vicksburg. Epinol, France referenced is: The Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial in France, 48.6 acres in extent, is sited on a plateau 100 feet above the Moselle River in the foothills of the Vosges Mountains. It contains the graves of 5,255 of our military dead, most of whom lost their lives in the campaigns across northeastern France to the Rhine River and beyond into Germany. The cemetery was established in October 1944 by the 46th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company of the U.S. Seventh Army as it drove northward from southern France through the Rhone Valley into Germany. The cemetery became the repository for the fatalities in the bitter fighting through the Heasbourg Gap during the winter of 1944-45.
Source: Biloxi Daily Herald, Carmichael, Biloxi, Mississippi: Wednesday, 7 Mar 1945), page 7: “Mark had edited and owned a weekly newspaper (The Light) in Bay St. Louis for six years, since he was 16 years old. He was born in Puerto Cortez, Honduras, and is survived by his wife, the former Irene Hanson of Pass Christian; his mother; his father, Dr. H. S. Carmichael, Belize, Br. Honduras, and by three brothers, Homer S. Carmichael Jr. and Henry E. Carmichael, both with the Merchant Marine, and Lucian R. Carmichael, Coast Guard, all overseas in the Pacific area.”
Source: Times-Picayune, (New Orleans, Louisiana: Tuesday, May 25, 1948), page 2: Carmichael - Killed in the service of his country in France, on November 30, 1944, a member of the 387th Group while returning from a raid over Germany. Mark B. Carmichael, aged 22 years, husband of Irene Hanson of Christian Pass, Miss; son of Jeanette C. Carmichael of Bay St. Louis Miss.; brother of Homer S. Carmichael of San Francisco Calif., Lucien and Henry Carmichael of Bay St. Louis Miss.
Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, May 26, 1948, at 11:30 o'clock a.m. from the chapel of the Vicksburg National cemetery, Vicksburg, Miss. The Army chaplain, assisted by Rev. Warwick Aiken, former Episcopal rector of Bay St. Louis Miss., will officiate.”
Source: Daily Herald, Posthumous Award Of Air Medal Made (Biloxi, Mississippi: Friday, July 20, 1945), Page 5.
" Announcement has been made by the commanding officer of Gulfport Army Air Field of the presentation of the Air Medal to Mrs. Irene Elizabeth Carmichael, 503 East Beach, Pass Christian, posthumously awarded to her husband, Sergeant Mark B. Carmichael.
The citation accompanying the medal read: “In recognition of meritorious achievement while participating in aerial flights in the European Theater of Operations, he having completed the required number of operational sorties against the enemy.
The award was made by a flying officer of Gulfport Field."
Note: Mark was one of the World War II dead returned from Epinol, France to be re-interred at Vicksburg. Epinol, France referenced is: The Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial in France, 48.6 acres in extent, is sited on a plateau 100 feet above the Moselle River in the foothills of the Vosges Mountains. It contains the graves of 5,255 of our military dead, most of whom lost their lives in the campaigns across northeastern France to the Rhine River and beyond into Germany. The cemetery was established in October 1944 by the 46th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company of the U.S. Seventh Army as it drove northward from southern France through the Rhone Valley into Germany. The cemetery became the repository for the fatalities in the bitter fighting through the Heasbourg Gap during the winter of 1944-45.
From Find A Grave member GKA:
Source: Biloxi Daily Herald, Carmichael, Biloxi, Mississippi: Wednesday, 7 Mar 1945), page 7: “Mark had edited and owned a weekly newspaper (The Light) in Bay St. Louis for six years, since he was 16 years old. He was born in Puerto Cortez, Honduras, and is survived by his wife, the former Irene Hanson of Pass Christian; his mother; his father, Dr. H. S. Carmichael, Belize, Br. Honduras, and by three brothers, Homer S. Carmichael Jr. and Henry E. Carmichael, both with the Merchant Marine, and Lucian R. Carmichael, Coast Guard, all overseas in the Pacific area.”
Source: Times-Picayune, (New Orleans, Louisiana: Tuesday, May 25, 1948), page 2: Carmichael - Killed in the service of his country in France, on November 30, 1944, a member of the 387th Group while returning from a raid over Germany. Mark B. Carmichael, aged 22 years, husband of Irene Hanson of Christian Pass, Miss; son of Jeanette C. Carmichael of Bay St. Louis Miss.; brother of Homer S. Carmichael of San Francisco Calif., Lucien and Henry Carmichael of Bay St. Louis Miss.
Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, May 26, 1948, at 11:30 o'clock a.m. from the chapel of the Vicksburg National cemetery, Vicksburg, Miss. The Army chaplain, assisted by Rev. Warwick Aiken, former Episcopal rector of Bay St. Louis Miss., will officiate.”
Source: Daily Herald, Posthumous Award Of Air Medal Made (Biloxi, Mississippi: Friday, July 20, 1945), Page 5.
" Announcement has been made by the commanding officer of Gulfport Army Air Field of the presentation of the Air Medal to Mrs. Irene Elizabeth Carmichael, 503 East Beach, Pass Christian, posthumously awarded to her husband, Sergeant Mark B. Carmichael.
The citation accompanying the medal read: “In recognition of meritorious achievement while participating in aerial flights in the European Theater of Operations, he having completed the required number of operational sorties against the enemy.
The award was made by a flying officer of Gulfport Field."
Note: Mark was one of the World War II dead returned from Epinol, France to be re-interred at Vicksburg. Epinol, France referenced is: The Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial in France, 48.6 acres in extent, is sited on a plateau 100 feet above the Moselle River in the foothills of the Vosges Mountains. It contains the graves of 5,255 of our military dead, most of whom lost their lives in the campaigns across northeastern France to the Rhine River and beyond into Germany. The cemetery was established in October 1944 by the 46th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company of the U.S. Seventh Army as it drove northward from southern France through the Rhone Valley into Germany. The cemetery became the repository for the fatalities in the bitter fighting through the Heasbourg Gap during the winter of 1944-45.
Source: Biloxi Daily Herald, Carmichael, Biloxi, Mississippi: Wednesday, 7 Mar 1945), page 7: “Mark had edited and owned a weekly newspaper (The Light) in Bay St. Louis for six years, since he was 16 years old. He was born in Puerto Cortez, Honduras, and is survived by his wife, the former Irene Hanson of Pass Christian; his mother; his father, Dr. H. S. Carmichael, Belize, Br. Honduras, and by three brothers, Homer S. Carmichael Jr. and Henry E. Carmichael, both with the Merchant Marine, and Lucian R. Carmichael, Coast Guard, all overseas in the Pacific area.”
Source: Times-Picayune, (New Orleans, Louisiana: Tuesday, May 25, 1948), page 2: Carmichael - Killed in the service of his country in France, on November 30, 1944, a member of the 387th Group while returning from a raid over Germany. Mark B. Carmichael, aged 22 years, husband of Irene Hanson of Christian Pass, Miss; son of Jeanette C. Carmichael of Bay St. Louis Miss.; brother of Homer S. Carmichael of San Francisco Calif., Lucien and Henry Carmichael of Bay St. Louis Miss.
Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, May 26, 1948, at 11:30 o'clock a.m. from the chapel of the Vicksburg National cemetery, Vicksburg, Miss. The Army chaplain, assisted by Rev. Warwick Aiken, former Episcopal rector of Bay St. Louis Miss., will officiate.”
Source: Daily Herald, Posthumous Award Of Air Medal Made (Biloxi, Mississippi: Friday, July 20, 1945), Page 5.
" Announcement has been made by the commanding officer of Gulfport Army Air Field of the presentation of the Air Medal to Mrs. Irene Elizabeth Carmichael, 503 East Beach, Pass Christian, posthumously awarded to her husband, Sergeant Mark B. Carmichael.
The citation accompanying the medal read: “In recognition of meritorious achievement while participating in aerial flights in the European Theater of Operations, he having completed the required number of operational sorties against the enemy.
The award was made by a flying officer of Gulfport Field."
Note: Mark was one of the World War II dead returned from Epinol, France to be re-interred at Vicksburg. Epinol, France referenced is: The Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial in France, 48.6 acres in extent, is sited on a plateau 100 feet above the Moselle River in the foothills of the Vosges Mountains. It contains the graves of 5,255 of our military dead, most of whom lost their lives in the campaigns across northeastern France to the Rhine River and beyond into Germany. The cemetery was established in October 1944 by the 46th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company of the U.S. Seventh Army as it drove northward from southern France through the Rhone Valley into Germany. The cemetery became the repository for the fatalities in the bitter fighting through the Heasbourg Gap during the winter of 1944-45.
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