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Casualty Info
Home Town Vancouver, British Columbia
Last Address USS Hunter Liggett
Casualty Date Sep 27, 1942
Cause KIA-Died of Wounds
Reason Gun, Small Arms Fire
Location Solomon Islands
Conflict World War II
Location of Interment Laurel Hill Memorial Park - Cle Elum, Washington
Guadalcanal Campaign (1942 - 43)/Battle of Savo Island
From Month/Year
August / 1942
To Month/Year
August / 1942
Description The battle took place on August 8–9, 1942 and was the first major naval engagement of the Guadalcanal campaign, and the first of several naval battles in the straits later named Ironbottom Sound, near the island of Guadalcanal.
