William Warren Boggess, Jr. – Seaman Second Class, United States Navy

Courtesy of the West Virginia Veterans Database:

War: WWII
Last Name: Boggess, Jr.
First Name: William
Middle Name or Initial: W
Sex: M
County: Boone, West Virginia
Community:
Branch of Service: Navy
Rank: Seaman Second Class
Service Number:
Date of Death: 10 January 1045
Place of Death: South Pacific on Destroyer LeRay Wilson
Cause of Death:
Place of Burial: Arlington National Cemetery
Father: W.W.
Mother: Addie May
Spouse:
Date of Marriage:
Place of Marriage:
Children:
Date Added to Memorial: Original

Source: Pentagon Form and newspaper clipping (no date or Name of paper available.) & Charleston Daily Mail – death notice – 24 February 1945; Jackson County Library, Ripley West Virginia- WWII newspaper notebooks by Mr/Mr. Lockhart’s – photo – death notice; Jackson Herald 7 September 1948 – reburial
Notes: Graduated from Ripley High School in 1942.

BOGGESS, WILLIAM WARREN JR

• USNR
• DATE OF DEATH: 01/11/1945
• BURIED AT: SECTION 17  SITE 18320-65
  ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY

Michael Robert Patterson

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