USMA Class of 1939. Cullum No. 11712.
Lieut. Negley was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the Purple Heart.
Descendant of Major Edward Burleson
Cenotaph located in the Negley family burial plot.
He is also listed on the Manila American Memorial. His remains were never recovered.
He was the son of Richard V.W. Negley Sr. and Laura Burleson Negley.
He never married.
The President of the United States takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) to Richard V.W. Negley Jr. (0-22108), First Lieut. (Air Corps), United States Army Air Forces, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy while serving as an Officer of a B-17 Heavy Bomber in the 7th Bombardment Group (H), Tenth Air Force, while participating in a bombing mission on 16 January 1942, against enemy targets in the Southwest Pacific Area of Operations. The personal courage and devotion to duty displayed by First Lieut. Negley on this occasion have upheld the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, the 10th Air Force, and the United States Army Air Forces.
San Antonio Express
Tuesday, February 19, 1942
Lieutenant Negley Killed in Army Service
San Antonian in Bomber War Victim
A San Antonio Army flyer, 1st Lieut. Richard Van Wyck Negley, 26, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard V.W. Negley, 310 Paseo Encinal was killed in action while on foreign duty. The War Department notified his parents that Lieut. Negley was killed February 8, while flying an Army bomber of the Flying Fortress type.
Negley, a native of San Antonio, was graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire in 1933; from the United States Military Academy in 1939 and from Randolph and Kelly Fields in 1940. He was a grandson of the late Albert Sidney Burleson of Austin, former Postmaster General and the late William Negley. His father is President of Negley & Co. and a Director of the Alamo National Bank. Besides his parents, he is survived by two brothers, Albert S.B. Negley, who is believed to be in the Philippines and William M. Negley, Caracas, Venezuela.
Lieut. Negley was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the Purple Heart.
Descendant of Major Edward Burleson
Cenotaph located in the Negley family burial plot.
He is also listed on the Manila American Memorial. His remains were never recovered.
He was the son of Richard V.W. Negley Sr. and Laura Burleson Negley.
He never married.
The President of the United States takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) to Richard V.W. Negley Jr. (0-22108), First Lieut. (Air Corps), United States Army Air Forces, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy while serving as an Officer of a B-17 Heavy Bomber in the 7th Bombardment Group (H), Tenth Air Force, while participating in a bombing mission on 16 January 1942, against enemy targets in the Southwest Pacific Area of Operations. The personal courage and devotion to duty displayed by First Lieut. Negley on this occasion have upheld the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, the 10th Air Force, and the United States Army Air Forces.
San Antonio Express
Tuesday, February 19, 1942
Lieutenant Negley Killed in Army Service
San Antonian in Bomber War Victim
A San Antonio Army flyer, 1st Lieut. Richard Van Wyck Negley, 26, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard V.W. Negley, 310 Paseo Encinal was killed in action while on foreign duty. The War Department notified his parents that Lieut. Negley was killed February 8, while flying an Army bomber of the Flying Fortress type.
Negley, a native of San Antonio, was graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire in 1933; from the United States Military Academy in 1939 and from Randolph and Kelly Fields in 1940. He was a grandson of the late Albert Sidney Burleson of Austin, former Postmaster General and the late William Negley. His father is President of Negley & Co. and a Director of the Alamo National Bank. Besides his parents, he is survived by two brothers, Albert S.B. Negley, who is believed to be in the Philippines and William M. Negley, Caracas, Venezuela.
USMA Class of 1939. Cullum No. 11712.
Lieut. Negley was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the Purple Heart.
Descendant of Major Edward Burleson
Cenotaph located in the Negley family burial plot.
He is also listed on the Manila American Memorial. His remains were never recovered.
He was the son of Richard V.W. Negley Sr. and Laura Burleson Negley.
He never married.
The President of the United States takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) to Richard V.W. Negley Jr. (0-22108), First Lieut. (Air Corps), United States Army Air Forces, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy while serving as an Officer of a B-17 Heavy Bomber in the 7th Bombardment Group (H), Tenth Air Force, while participating in a bombing mission on 16 January 1942, against enemy targets in the Southwest Pacific Area of Operations. The personal courage and devotion to duty displayed by First Lieut. Negley on this occasion have upheld the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, the 10th Air Force, and the United States Army Air Forces.
San Antonio Express
Tuesday, February 19, 1942
Lieutenant Negley Killed in Army Service
San Antonian in Bomber War Victim
A San Antonio Army flyer, 1st Lieut. Richard Van Wyck Negley, 26, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard V.W. Negley, 310 Paseo Encinal was killed in action while on foreign duty. The War Department notified his parents that Lieut. Negley was killed February 8, while flying an Army bomber of the Flying Fortress type.
Negley, a native of San Antonio, was graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire in 1933; from the United States Military Academy in 1939 and from Randolph and Kelly Fields in 1940. He was a grandson of the late Albert Sidney Burleson of Austin, former Postmaster General and the late William Negley. His father is President of Negley & Co. and a Director of the Alamo National Bank. Besides his parents, he is survived by two brothers, Albert S.B. Negley, who is believed to be in the Philippines and William M. Negley, Caracas, Venezuela.
Lieut. Negley was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the Purple Heart.
Descendant of Major Edward Burleson
Cenotaph located in the Negley family burial plot.
He is also listed on the Manila American Memorial. His remains were never recovered.
He was the son of Richard V.W. Negley Sr. and Laura Burleson Negley.
He never married.
The President of the United States takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) to Richard V.W. Negley Jr. (0-22108), First Lieut. (Air Corps), United States Army Air Forces, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy while serving as an Officer of a B-17 Heavy Bomber in the 7th Bombardment Group (H), Tenth Air Force, while participating in a bombing mission on 16 January 1942, against enemy targets in the Southwest Pacific Area of Operations. The personal courage and devotion to duty displayed by First Lieut. Negley on this occasion have upheld the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, the 10th Air Force, and the United States Army Air Forces.
San Antonio Express
Tuesday, February 19, 1942
Lieutenant Negley Killed in Army Service
San Antonian in Bomber War Victim
A San Antonio Army flyer, 1st Lieut. Richard Van Wyck Negley, 26, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard V.W. Negley, 310 Paseo Encinal was killed in action while on foreign duty. The War Department notified his parents that Lieut. Negley was killed February 8, while flying an Army bomber of the Flying Fortress type.
Negley, a native of San Antonio, was graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire in 1933; from the United States Military Academy in 1939 and from Randolph and Kelly Fields in 1940. He was a grandson of the late Albert Sidney Burleson of Austin, former Postmaster General and the late William Negley. His father is President of Negley & Co. and a Director of the Alamo National Bank. Besides his parents, he is survived by two brothers, Albert S.B. Negley, who is believed to be in the Philippines and William M. Negley, Caracas, Venezuela.
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