Hillyer Walter Welborn
"Jiggs"
Marine Corps Reserve | Service Number 983701
January 4, 1919
in Laurel, MS
Ira Leonidas Welborn
Myrtle Branch (Houston) Welborn
Details unknown
Farmer
June 9, 1944
at Jackson, MS
February 27, 1945
from 24th Replacement Draft
March 9, 1945
to where OR cause
March 9, 1945
Killed in action
Rural Route 3, Laurel, MS – home of wife, Mrs. Dezzie May (McCloud) Welborn, and children Ira Chester and Walter Larry Welborn.
Service & Campaigns
Boot camp at MCRD San Diego; outposted to Third Training Battalion, 2nd Infantry Training Regiment at Camp Pendleton, California. Assigned to 24th Replacement Draft for deployment overseas attached to the Fourth Marine Division.
Joined Baker Company, First Battalion, 24th Marines as a battle replacement on Iwo Jima.
Outfit: B/1/24th Marines
Rank: Private
MOS: 745 (Rifleman)
Important Events:
February 27, 1945 – joined from 24th Replacement Draft
March 9, 1945 – killed in action (shrapnel wounds, back); exact circumstances unknown
March 17, 1945 – buried in Plot 1, Row 36, Grave 1784, Fourth Marine Division Cemetery
Individual Decorations
Medal
Purple Heart
Campaign
Iwo Jima (March 9, 1945)
Citation
Hillyer is buried in Shady Grove Cemetery, Shady Grove, Mississippi
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