Pvt. Lasley was killed in action on 6-15-1944 while serving as a rifleman with a Marine Regiment.
He is the son of Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Lasley of 1401 South 9th Street in Pekin, Illinois, and the mother died in 1938, and the family was broken-up, and he stayed with the father because he was 13 at the time, and the two brothers, Richard and William, went to foster-care, and the baby sister, Miss Mary Evelyn, was adopted to a family in Washington, Illinois.
He attended the grade schools in Pekin, and found employment at American Distillery, and the Excel Brass Foundry before his entry into the Marine Corps at the end of May, and he did his training at Camp Pendelton, California. He had just turned 18.
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Entered the service from Illinois.
He is the son of Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Lasley of 1401 South 9th Street in Pekin, Illinois, and the mother died in 1938, and the family was broken-up, and he stayed with the father because he was 13 at the time, and the two brothers, Richard and William, went to foster-care, and the baby sister, Miss Mary Evelyn, was adopted to a family in Washington, Illinois.
He attended the grade schools in Pekin, and found employment at American Distillery, and the Excel Brass Foundry before his entry into the Marine Corps at the end of May, and he did his training at Camp Pendelton, California. He had just turned 18.
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Entered the service from Illinois.
Pvt. Lasley was killed in action on 6-15-1944 while serving as a rifleman with a Marine Regiment.
He is the son of Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Lasley of 1401 South 9th Street in Pekin, Illinois, and the mother died in 1938, and the family was broken-up, and he stayed with the father because he was 13 at the time, and the two brothers, Richard and William, went to foster-care, and the baby sister, Miss Mary Evelyn, was adopted to a family in Washington, Illinois.
He attended the grade schools in Pekin, and found employment at American Distillery, and the Excel Brass Foundry before his entry into the Marine Corps at the end of May, and he did his training at Camp Pendelton, California. He had just turned 18.
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Entered the service from Illinois.
He is the son of Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Lasley of 1401 South 9th Street in Pekin, Illinois, and the mother died in 1938, and the family was broken-up, and he stayed with the father because he was 13 at the time, and the two brothers, Richard and William, went to foster-care, and the baby sister, Miss Mary Evelyn, was adopted to a family in Washington, Illinois.
He attended the grade schools in Pekin, and found employment at American Distillery, and the Excel Brass Foundry before his entry into the Marine Corps at the end of May, and he did his training at Camp Pendelton, California. He had just turned 18.
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Entered the service from Illinois.
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