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2LT Bayard Douglas “Dave Randolph” Tewksbury Veteran
1920 – 1945 Long Island National Cemetery
Photo added by GLENN
- Birth
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Windsor, Broome County, New York, USA
- Death
- 15 Apr 1945 (aged 24)
USA
- Burial
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East Farmingdale, Suffolk County, New York, USA Add to Map
- Plot
- D, 997
- Memorial ID
- 2834817 View Source
Bayard Douglas Tewksbury was born in Windsor, New York. Shortly after birth, he was taken to Vermont by his parents where he was raised on a farm. He was the son of Carl Henry Tewksbury - a farmer, and Janet Mildred Mallery - a school teacher. Bayard was named after his two grandfathers Bayard F. Tewksbury and Rev. Ira Douglas Mallery, both families with roots originally from Wayne Co., PA across the Delaware River from Deposit, New York.
After graduating from Hofstra College, Bayard made a name for himself as a champion race car driver and was posthumously enshrined in the National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame in 1956. For whatever reason, Bayard went by the pseudo-name "Dave Randolph", perhaps because of his odd real name. No one knows for sure his reasoning.
Bayard drove open wheel Midget and Sprint race cars (the forerunner of modern Indy Race Cars) in the 1940's under a variety of numbers (4, 28, 55, etc.) before finally joining the race team of Ted Horn (of Indy 500 fame) where he drove the no. 6 Sprint car with the intention for Bayard to race in the Indianapolis 500 in 1943. Unfortunately, the U.S. racing league shut down all tracks and racing at the end of 1942 because of WWII. Racing resumed in 1946, but Bayard (who had signed up for military duty) had died by then.
(Note: Ted Horn holds the most consistent top 5 finishes record in the Indianapolis 500 of any driver (past and present) and was the national champion in 1946, 1947, and 1948 before being killed in a racing accident in October of 1948). The Horn/Randolph number 6 car was purchased by another race driver, "Dutch" Culp after Randolph's death and changed it to a cream color and given the no. 3.
As one of the top racers in the country in the early 1940's, Bayard Tewksbury (aka "Dave Randolph") routinely battled the infamous Joie Chitwood for top honors at several tracks around the country flip-flopping between coming in first and second. Joie Chitwood would later leave the racing circuit to go on and put on world renown car shows performing daredevil stunts with cars for crowds at state fairs, expos, race tracks, and other venues known as "The Joie Chitwood Thrill Show".
After WWII had drawn the United States into the fray, like many young men with promising futures, Bayard felt duty bound to his country and joined the military to fight in the war. He enlisted in the US Army in the air corp division that later separated into its own branch now known as the US Air Force where he became a pilot with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. He died on April 15, 1945. He was 24 at the time of his death and was not married.
http://www.earhs.org/docs/Dutch%20Culp%20Offyt.pdf
After graduating from Hofstra College, Bayard made a name for himself as a champion race car driver and was posthumously enshrined in the National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame in 1956. For whatever reason, Bayard went by the pseudo-name "Dave Randolph", perhaps because of his odd real name. No one knows for sure his reasoning.
Bayard drove open wheel Midget and Sprint race cars (the forerunner of modern Indy Race Cars) in the 1940's under a variety of numbers (4, 28, 55, etc.) before finally joining the race team of Ted Horn (of Indy 500 fame) where he drove the no. 6 Sprint car with the intention for Bayard to race in the Indianapolis 500 in 1943. Unfortunately, the U.S. racing league shut down all tracks and racing at the end of 1942 because of WWII. Racing resumed in 1946, but Bayard (who had signed up for military duty) had died by then.
(Note: Ted Horn holds the most consistent top 5 finishes record in the Indianapolis 500 of any driver (past and present) and was the national champion in 1946, 1947, and 1948 before being killed in a racing accident in October of 1948). The Horn/Randolph number 6 car was purchased by another race driver, "Dutch" Culp after Randolph's death and changed it to a cream color and given the no. 3.
As one of the top racers in the country in the early 1940's, Bayard Tewksbury (aka "Dave Randolph") routinely battled the infamous Joie Chitwood for top honors at several tracks around the country flip-flopping between coming in first and second. Joie Chitwood would later leave the racing circuit to go on and put on world renown car shows performing daredevil stunts with cars for crowds at state fairs, expos, race tracks, and other venues known as "The Joie Chitwood Thrill Show".
After WWII had drawn the United States into the fray, like many young men with promising futures, Bayard felt duty bound to his country and joined the military to fight in the war. He enlisted in the US Army in the air corp division that later separated into its own branch now known as the US Air Force where he became a pilot with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. He died on April 15, 1945. He was 24 at the time of his death and was not married.
http://www.earhs.org/docs/Dutch%20Culp%20Offyt.pdf
Bayard Douglas Tewksbury was born in Windsor, New York. Shortly after birth, he was taken to Vermont by his parents where he was raised on a farm. He was the son of Carl Henry Tewksbury - a farmer, and Janet Mildred Mallery - a school teacher. Bayard was named after his two grandfathers Bayard F. Tewksbury and Rev. Ira Douglas Mallery, both families with roots originally from Wayne Co., PA across the Delaware River from Deposit, New York.
After graduating from Hofstra College, Bayard made a name for himself as a champion race car driver and was posthumously enshrined in the National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame in 1956. For whatever reason, Bayard went by the pseudo-name "Dave Randolph", perhaps because of his odd real name. No one knows for sure his reasoning.
Bayard drove open wheel Midget and Sprint race cars (the forerunner of modern Indy Race Cars) in the 1940's under a variety of numbers (4, 28, 55, etc.) before finally joining the race team of Ted Horn (of Indy 500 fame) where he drove the no. 6 Sprint car with the intention for Bayard to race in the Indianapolis 500 in 1943. Unfortunately, the U.S. racing league shut down all tracks and racing at the end of 1942 because of WWII. Racing resumed in 1946, but Bayard (who had signed up for military duty) had died by then.
(Note: Ted Horn holds the most consistent top 5 finishes record in the Indianapolis 500 of any driver (past and present) and was the national champion in 1946, 1947, and 1948 before being killed in a racing accident in October of 1948). The Horn/Randolph number 6 car was purchased by another race driver, "Dutch" Culp after Randolph's death and changed it to a cream color and given the no. 3.
As one of the top racers in the country in the early 1940's, Bayard Tewksbury (aka "Dave Randolph") routinely battled the infamous Joie Chitwood for top honors at several tracks around the country flip-flopping between coming in first and second. Joie Chitwood would later leave the racing circuit to go on and put on world renown car shows performing daredevil stunts with cars for crowds at state fairs, expos, race tracks, and other venues known as "The Joie Chitwood Thrill Show".
After WWII had drawn the United States into the fray, like many young men with promising futures, Bayard felt duty bound to his country and joined the military to fight in the war. He enlisted in the US Army in the air corp division that later separated into its own branch now known as the US Air Force where he became a pilot with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. He died on April 15, 1945. He was 24 at the time of his death and was not married.
http://www.earhs.org/docs/Dutch%20Culp%20Offyt.pdf
After graduating from Hofstra College, Bayard made a name for himself as a champion race car driver and was posthumously enshrined in the National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame in 1956. For whatever reason, Bayard went by the pseudo-name "Dave Randolph", perhaps because of his odd real name. No one knows for sure his reasoning.
Bayard drove open wheel Midget and Sprint race cars (the forerunner of modern Indy Race Cars) in the 1940's under a variety of numbers (4, 28, 55, etc.) before finally joining the race team of Ted Horn (of Indy 500 fame) where he drove the no. 6 Sprint car with the intention for Bayard to race in the Indianapolis 500 in 1943. Unfortunately, the U.S. racing league shut down all tracks and racing at the end of 1942 because of WWII. Racing resumed in 1946, but Bayard (who had signed up for military duty) had died by then.
(Note: Ted Horn holds the most consistent top 5 finishes record in the Indianapolis 500 of any driver (past and present) and was the national champion in 1946, 1947, and 1948 before being killed in a racing accident in October of 1948). The Horn/Randolph number 6 car was purchased by another race driver, "Dutch" Culp after Randolph's death and changed it to a cream color and given the no. 3.
As one of the top racers in the country in the early 1940's, Bayard Tewksbury (aka "Dave Randolph") routinely battled the infamous Joie Chitwood for top honors at several tracks around the country flip-flopping between coming in first and second. Joie Chitwood would later leave the racing circuit to go on and put on world renown car shows performing daredevil stunts with cars for crowds at state fairs, expos, race tracks, and other venues known as "The Joie Chitwood Thrill Show".
After WWII had drawn the United States into the fray, like many young men with promising futures, Bayard felt duty bound to his country and joined the military to fight in the war. He enlisted in the US Army in the air corp division that later separated into its own branch now known as the US Air Force where he became a pilot with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. He died on April 15, 1945. He was 24 at the time of his death and was not married.
http://www.earhs.org/docs/Dutch%20Culp%20Offyt.pdf
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- Maintained by: Ric Chrysler
- Originally Created by: US Veterans Affairs Office
- Added: Mar 3, 2000
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/2834817/bayard_douglas-tewksbury: accessed ), memorial page for 2LT Bayard Douglas “Dave Randolph” Tewksbury (20 Nov 1920–15 Apr 1945), Find a Grave Memorial ID 2834817, citing Long Island National Cemetery, East Farmingdale, Suffolk County, New York, USA; Maintained by Ric Chrysler (contributor 48096424).
