Albert Price Goldsborough
Marine Corps Reserve | Service Number 505330
January 19, 1923
in Chester, PA
Earl Alonzo Goldsborough
Adeline (Johnson) Goldsborough
Details unknown
Worked with father as general contractor
November 30, 1942
at Philadelphia, PA
September 9, 1943
from MCB Quantico
October 27, 1945
to NTC Bainbridge, MD
November 6, 1945
Discharged
31 Worrell Street, Chester, PA – address of parents, Earl & Adeline Goldsborough
Service & Campaigns
Enlisted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 30 November 1942. Boot camp at Parris Island with Ninth Recruit Battalion; qualified as expert rifleman and outposted to Rifle Range Detachment, Parris Island as student coach on 29 January 1943. Promoted to Private First Class on 25 March. Transferred to Marine Base Quantico, Virginia on 9 May 1943; duty as small arms instructor through September.
Joined Charlie Company, First Battalion, 23rd Marines at Camp Pendleton, California, on 8 September 1943.
Outfit: C/1/24th Marines
Rank: Private First Class
MOS: 746 (Automatic Rifleman)
Outfit: C/1/24th Marines
Rank: Private First Class
MOS: 746 (Automatic Rifleman)
Outfit: C/1/24th Marines
Rank: Private First Class
MOS: 746 (Automatic Rifleman)
Outfit: C/1/24th Marines
Rank: Corporal
MOS: 737 (Rifle NCO)
Important Events:
February 19, 1945 – wounded in action (gunshot, right hand); evacuated to USS Rutland.
February 26, 1944 – transferred to USS Pinkney for transit to US Naval Hospital #128.
Rejoined Charlie Company, First Battalion, 24th Marines at Camp Maui on 12 April 1945; promoted to sergeant, 24 May 1945.
Awarded Fourth Marine Division Commendation on 3 October 1945. Returned to continental US and transferred to US Naval Training Center Bainbridge. Honorably discharged on 6 November 1945.
Individual Decorations
Medal
Purple Heart
Campaign
Iwo Jima (February 19, 1945)
Citation
Uncle Albert was my mother’s brother. They both upped in the military during WWII and arrived home to Chester, Pennsylvania with in one half hour of each other. He was a Marine in the Pacific. She was a WAC in Italy.