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Mark Modrell Burgess

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Mark Modrell Burgess Veteran

Birth
Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA
Death
1 Oct 1943 (aged 40)
Solomon Islands
Burial
Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kansas, USA Add to Map
Plot
SECTION 2 SITE 1790
Memorial ID
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Link to Mark's memorial with his family

Mark Modrell Burgess


Mark served as a Quartermaster Third Class, U.S.S. LST 448, U.S. Navy during World War II.


He enlisted from the State of Louisiana on August 2, 1942.


Mark was "Killed In Action", along with 18 of his shipmates at Niarovai Bay, Vella Lavella Island, in the Solomon Islands by Japanese dive bombers while unloading the LST.


Service ID: 6448237.

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Names of U. S. S. LST 448 crew members who lost their lives with Herbert on October 1, 1943 from the September 1943 Muster Roll


Joseph Preston Adams - Virginia

Mark M Burgess - Caddo Parish, Lousiania

George L Cazaubon, Jr - New Orleans

Johnny C Dickens - Burbank, California

Raymond Francis Fallon - New York State

William J Gray - Illinois

James M Hall, Jr

Harold D Hancock - Virginia

Alfred Willard Larue - West Virginia

Ben P Lawicki - Cleveland, Ohio

John J Martin - Illinois

John P Martin- Oregon

Harold E O'Neil - New York State

Joseph E Shanahan - Pennsylvania

William Wester - New Jersey

Frank E Whiterock - Colorado

Herbert T Dowden - Ohio


The following men were in the crew and died in 1943

Wilton G. Fox wounded on LST-448 and died in New Caledonia - Oneida County, New York

Jack Douglas Malloy - Utah

Link to Mark's memorial with his family

Mark Modrell Burgess


Mark served as a Quartermaster Third Class, U.S.S. LST 448, U.S. Navy during World War II.


He enlisted from the State of Louisiana on August 2, 1942.


Mark was "Killed In Action", along with 18 of his shipmates at Niarovai Bay, Vella Lavella Island, in the Solomon Islands by Japanese dive bombers while unloading the LST.


Service ID: 6448237.

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Names of U. S. S. LST 448 crew members who lost their lives with Herbert on October 1, 1943 from the September 1943 Muster Roll


Joseph Preston Adams - Virginia

Mark M Burgess - Caddo Parish, Lousiania

George L Cazaubon, Jr - New Orleans

Johnny C Dickens - Burbank, California

Raymond Francis Fallon - New York State

William J Gray - Illinois

James M Hall, Jr

Harold D Hancock - Virginia

Alfred Willard Larue - West Virginia

Ben P Lawicki - Cleveland, Ohio

John J Martin - Illinois

John P Martin- Oregon

Harold E O'Neil - New York State

Joseph E Shanahan - Pennsylvania

William Wester - New Jersey

Frank E Whiterock - Colorado

Herbert T Dowden - Ohio


The following men were in the crew and died in 1943

Wilton G. Fox wounded on LST-448 and died in New Caledonia - Oneida County, New York

Jack Douglas Malloy - Utah



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