Advertisement

<span class=prefix>Pvt.</span> Wallace Roscoe West Jr.

Advertisement

Pvt. Wallace Roscoe West Jr. Veteran

Birth
Death
11 Mar 1945 (aged 20)
Iwo Jima, Ogasawara-shichō, Tokyo Metropolis, Japan
Burial
Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section D ~ Site 3647
Memorial ID
View Source
Wallace, who resided at 1230 King Street, Wilmington, Delaware, served as a Private with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, U.S. Marine Corps during World War II.

Wallace was "Killed In Action" on Iwo Jima during the war.

He had served in the Marines for nine months and was decorated with a Purple Heart.

He was originally interred in the Iwo Jima 4th Division Cemetery, Kazan Retto and was later repatriated here on January 7, 1949.

Service # 967974

Husband of Eileen Claire Smith West.

( Bio & Family Link by: Russ Pickett )
Wallace, who resided at 1230 King Street, Wilmington, Delaware, served as a Private with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, U.S. Marine Corps during World War II.

Wallace was "Killed In Action" on Iwo Jima during the war.

He had served in the Marines for nine months and was decorated with a Purple Heart.

He was originally interred in the Iwo Jima 4th Division Cemetery, Kazan Retto and was later repatriated here on January 7, 1949.

Service # 967974

Husband of Eileen Claire Smith West.

( Bio & Family Link by: Russ Pickett )

Inscription

PVT, US MARINE CORPS WORLD WAR II



Sponsored by Ancestry

Advertisement