MSGT US Army
CCC 1936-1940
WWII 1941-1945
Korea 1950-1951
Normandy 5 Battle Stars
Battle of the Buldge Purple Heart
Korea 3 Battle Stars
US 2 Infantry Division
"United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946"
Name: Roby L Whitley
Name (Original): WHITLEY ROBY L
Event Type: Military Service
Event Date: 09 Oct 1945
Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for Hawaiian Department
Event Place: Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, United States
Residence Place:
Race: White
Citizenship Status: citizen
Birth Year: 1917
Birthplace: OHIO
Education Level: 3 years of high school
Civilian Occupation:
Marital Status: Single, without dependents
Military Rank: Private
Army Branch: Infantry
Army Component: Regular Army (including Officers, Nurses, Warrant Officers, and Enlisted Men)
Source Reference: Enlisted Man, Philippine Scout or recall to AD of an enlisted man who had been transferred to the ERC
Serial Number: 35119380
Affiliate Publication Title: Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938-1946
Affiliate ARC Identifier: 1263923
Box Film Number: 08973.319
"Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1953"
Name: Roby L Whitley
Titles and Terms:
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 31 Dec 1951
Event Place: Greenfield, Ohio
Residence Place: 373 Gilbert St., Columbus, Ohio
Address: Columbus, Ohio
Gender: Male
Age: 34
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Occupation: U. S. Army
Birth Date: 02 Feb 1917
Birthplace: Peebles, Ohio
Birth Year (Estimated): 1917
Burial Date: 03 Jan 1952
Burial Place: Greenfield, Ohio
Cemetery: Greenfield Cemetery
Father's Name: Holt Whitley
Father's Titles and Terms:
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Nellie Frost
Mother's Titles and Terms:
Mother's Birthplace:
Spouse's Name:
Spouse's Titles and Terms:
Certificate Number: 77747
GS Film number: 2372879
Digital Folder Number: 004109409
Image Number: 01027
"The Press Gazette", Hillsboro, Ohio January 1, 1952
Greenfield Soldier Is Killer In Auto-Train Crash Monday
M. Sgt. Roby Whitley, 33, U. S. Army, was killed instantly when a Baltimore & Ohio freight train struck his auto at a crossing on a township road, approximately two miles west of Greenfield, Monday between 6:45 and 6:50 A.M.
Sgt. Whitley was thrown from the car and the wreckage of the car was carried quite a distance from the crossing.
O. F. Stevison, Chillicothe, engineer on the train, made the following statement to Dr. J. Martin Byers, county coroner:
"I noticed a car running slow between 6:45 and 6:50 A.M. I thought it was going across the tracks and I blew the whistle and rang the bell. The car was traveling about five miles per hour and rolled on the track and just sat there. The train was about three telephone spaces from the crossing and at two telephone lengths I observed that the car was not moving and put on the emergency stop."
Dr. Byers said that Whitley leaves his wife, Isabel, and two children of Columbus, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Holt Whitley of Greenfield.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
CCC 1936-1940
WWII 1941-1945
Korea 1950-1951
Normandy 5 Battle Stars
Battle of the Buldge Purple Heart
Korea 3 Battle Stars
US 2 Infantry Division
"United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946"
Name: Roby L Whitley
Name (Original): WHITLEY ROBY L
Event Type: Military Service
Event Date: 09 Oct 1945
Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for Hawaiian Department
Event Place: Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, United States
Residence Place:
Race: White
Citizenship Status: citizen
Birth Year: 1917
Birthplace: OHIO
Education Level: 3 years of high school
Civilian Occupation:
Marital Status: Single, without dependents
Military Rank: Private
Army Branch: Infantry
Army Component: Regular Army (including Officers, Nurses, Warrant Officers, and Enlisted Men)
Source Reference: Enlisted Man, Philippine Scout or recall to AD of an enlisted man who had been transferred to the ERC
Serial Number: 35119380
Affiliate Publication Title: Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938-1946
Affiliate ARC Identifier: 1263923
Box Film Number: 08973.319
"Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1953"
Name: Roby L Whitley
Titles and Terms:
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 31 Dec 1951
Event Place: Greenfield, Ohio
Residence Place: 373 Gilbert St., Columbus, Ohio
Address: Columbus, Ohio
Gender: Male
Age: 34
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Occupation: U. S. Army
Birth Date: 02 Feb 1917
Birthplace: Peebles, Ohio
Birth Year (Estimated): 1917
Burial Date: 03 Jan 1952
Burial Place: Greenfield, Ohio
Cemetery: Greenfield Cemetery
Father's Name: Holt Whitley
Father's Titles and Terms:
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Nellie Frost
Mother's Titles and Terms:
Mother's Birthplace:
Spouse's Name:
Spouse's Titles and Terms:
Certificate Number: 77747
GS Film number: 2372879
Digital Folder Number: 004109409
Image Number: 01027
"The Press Gazette", Hillsboro, Ohio January 1, 1952
Greenfield Soldier Is Killer In Auto-Train Crash Monday
M. Sgt. Roby Whitley, 33, U. S. Army, was killed instantly when a Baltimore & Ohio freight train struck his auto at a crossing on a township road, approximately two miles west of Greenfield, Monday between 6:45 and 6:50 A.M.
Sgt. Whitley was thrown from the car and the wreckage of the car was carried quite a distance from the crossing.
O. F. Stevison, Chillicothe, engineer on the train, made the following statement to Dr. J. Martin Byers, county coroner:
"I noticed a car running slow between 6:45 and 6:50 A.M. I thought it was going across the tracks and I blew the whistle and rang the bell. The car was traveling about five miles per hour and rolled on the track and just sat there. The train was about three telephone spaces from the crossing and at two telephone lengths I observed that the car was not moving and put on the emergency stop."
Dr. Byers said that Whitley leaves his wife, Isabel, and two children of Columbus, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Holt Whitley of Greenfield.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
MSGT US Army
CCC 1936-1940
WWII 1941-1945
Korea 1950-1951
Normandy 5 Battle Stars
Battle of the Buldge Purple Heart
Korea 3 Battle Stars
US 2 Infantry Division
"United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946"
Name: Roby L Whitley
Name (Original): WHITLEY ROBY L
Event Type: Military Service
Event Date: 09 Oct 1945
Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for Hawaiian Department
Event Place: Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, United States
Residence Place:
Race: White
Citizenship Status: citizen
Birth Year: 1917
Birthplace: OHIO
Education Level: 3 years of high school
Civilian Occupation:
Marital Status: Single, without dependents
Military Rank: Private
Army Branch: Infantry
Army Component: Regular Army (including Officers, Nurses, Warrant Officers, and Enlisted Men)
Source Reference: Enlisted Man, Philippine Scout or recall to AD of an enlisted man who had been transferred to the ERC
Serial Number: 35119380
Affiliate Publication Title: Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938-1946
Affiliate ARC Identifier: 1263923
Box Film Number: 08973.319
"Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1953"
Name: Roby L Whitley
Titles and Terms:
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 31 Dec 1951
Event Place: Greenfield, Ohio
Residence Place: 373 Gilbert St., Columbus, Ohio
Address: Columbus, Ohio
Gender: Male
Age: 34
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Occupation: U. S. Army
Birth Date: 02 Feb 1917
Birthplace: Peebles, Ohio
Birth Year (Estimated): 1917
Burial Date: 03 Jan 1952
Burial Place: Greenfield, Ohio
Cemetery: Greenfield Cemetery
Father's Name: Holt Whitley
Father's Titles and Terms:
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Nellie Frost
Mother's Titles and Terms:
Mother's Birthplace:
Spouse's Name:
Spouse's Titles and Terms:
Certificate Number: 77747
GS Film number: 2372879
Digital Folder Number: 004109409
Image Number: 01027
"The Press Gazette", Hillsboro, Ohio January 1, 1952
Greenfield Soldier Is Killer In Auto-Train Crash Monday
M. Sgt. Roby Whitley, 33, U. S. Army, was killed instantly when a Baltimore & Ohio freight train struck his auto at a crossing on a township road, approximately two miles west of Greenfield, Monday between 6:45 and 6:50 A.M.
Sgt. Whitley was thrown from the car and the wreckage of the car was carried quite a distance from the crossing.
O. F. Stevison, Chillicothe, engineer on the train, made the following statement to Dr. J. Martin Byers, county coroner:
"I noticed a car running slow between 6:45 and 6:50 A.M. I thought it was going across the tracks and I blew the whistle and rang the bell. The car was traveling about five miles per hour and rolled on the track and just sat there. The train was about three telephone spaces from the crossing and at two telephone lengths I observed that the car was not moving and put on the emergency stop."
Dr. Byers said that Whitley leaves his wife, Isabel, and two children of Columbus, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Holt Whitley of Greenfield.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
CCC 1936-1940
WWII 1941-1945
Korea 1950-1951
Normandy 5 Battle Stars
Battle of the Buldge Purple Heart
Korea 3 Battle Stars
US 2 Infantry Division
"United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946"
Name: Roby L Whitley
Name (Original): WHITLEY ROBY L
Event Type: Military Service
Event Date: 09 Oct 1945
Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for Hawaiian Department
Event Place: Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, United States
Residence Place:
Race: White
Citizenship Status: citizen
Birth Year: 1917
Birthplace: OHIO
Education Level: 3 years of high school
Civilian Occupation:
Marital Status: Single, without dependents
Military Rank: Private
Army Branch: Infantry
Army Component: Regular Army (including Officers, Nurses, Warrant Officers, and Enlisted Men)
Source Reference: Enlisted Man, Philippine Scout or recall to AD of an enlisted man who had been transferred to the ERC
Serial Number: 35119380
Affiliate Publication Title: Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938-1946
Affiliate ARC Identifier: 1263923
Box Film Number: 08973.319
"Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1953"
Name: Roby L Whitley
Titles and Terms:
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 31 Dec 1951
Event Place: Greenfield, Ohio
Residence Place: 373 Gilbert St., Columbus, Ohio
Address: Columbus, Ohio
Gender: Male
Age: 34
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Occupation: U. S. Army
Birth Date: 02 Feb 1917
Birthplace: Peebles, Ohio
Birth Year (Estimated): 1917
Burial Date: 03 Jan 1952
Burial Place: Greenfield, Ohio
Cemetery: Greenfield Cemetery
Father's Name: Holt Whitley
Father's Titles and Terms:
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Nellie Frost
Mother's Titles and Terms:
Mother's Birthplace:
Spouse's Name:
Spouse's Titles and Terms:
Certificate Number: 77747
GS Film number: 2372879
Digital Folder Number: 004109409
Image Number: 01027
"The Press Gazette", Hillsboro, Ohio January 1, 1952
Greenfield Soldier Is Killer In Auto-Train Crash Monday
M. Sgt. Roby Whitley, 33, U. S. Army, was killed instantly when a Baltimore & Ohio freight train struck his auto at a crossing on a township road, approximately two miles west of Greenfield, Monday between 6:45 and 6:50 A.M.
Sgt. Whitley was thrown from the car and the wreckage of the car was carried quite a distance from the crossing.
O. F. Stevison, Chillicothe, engineer on the train, made the following statement to Dr. J. Martin Byers, county coroner:
"I noticed a car running slow between 6:45 and 6:50 A.M. I thought it was going across the tracks and I blew the whistle and rang the bell. The car was traveling about five miles per hour and rolled on the track and just sat there. The train was about three telephone spaces from the crossing and at two telephone lengths I observed that the car was not moving and put on the emergency stop."
Dr. Byers said that Whitley leaves his wife, Isabel, and two children of Columbus, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Holt Whitley of Greenfield.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
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