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Casualty Info
Home Town Mattapan, MA
Last Address Mattapan, MA
Casualty Date Sep 12, 1968
Cause KIA-Killed in Action
Reason Other Explosive Device
Location Quang Nam (Vietnam)
Conflict Vietnam War
Location of Interment Mount Calvary Cemetery - Roslindale, Massachusetts
Wall/Plot Coordinates 44W 039 / Section 18 B, Lot 395, Space 1
Other Memories In 1949 the Navy began an intensive reorganization which included the creation and formation of a new type of construction force - the Mobile Construction Battalion. On August 8, 1949, U. S. Naval Mobile Construction Battalion ONE -- "The First and Finest" -- was established at the Naval Amphibious Base, Little Creek, VA. The formal commissioning ceremony was October 28, 1949.