Francis Paul Wilson
Marine Corps Reserve | Service Number 466306
July 14, 1916
in Granville, IL
Marshall Nelson Wilson
Harriet Anna (Bartlett) Wilson
later Mrs. W. C. Breckenridge
Details unknown
Shipping clerk
Duro Metal Products Company
September 23, 1942
at Chicago, IL
September 3, 1943
from Naval Air Station Astoria, OR
May 6, 1944
to Transient Center, Fleet Marine Force
December 16, 1944
Discharged for disability
Island Lake Estates, McHenry, IL – address of wife, Mrs. Janet Marie (Selle) Wilson, and daughter Maureen (b. 1942)
Service & Campaigns
Boot camp at MCRD San Diego with First Recruit Battalion. Outposted to Marine Barracks, Naval Air Station Tongue Point, Oregon. Duty at Tongue Point and NAS Astoria, Oregon, through September 1943.
Joined Baker Company, First Battalion, 24th Marines at Camp Pendleton, CA, on 3 September 1943.
Outfit: B/1/24th Marines
Rank: Private First Class
MOS: 050 (Company carpenter)
Admitted to US Army Hospital #22, Maui, as sick (diagnosis unknown), on 1 May 1944. Transferred to Transient Center, Fleet Marine Force, for further transfer to United States. Sailed from Honolulu aboard USS Grant and arrived US Naval Hospital, Seattle, on 1 June 1944.
Under treatment at Seattle through December, 1944. Honorably discharged for reasons of disability, 16 December 1944, with rank of corporal.
