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Yale College 219
Class of 1944. Member Church of St James the Less (Episcopal), Scarsdale. Unmarried.
Enlisted in Army Enlisted Reserve Corps May 25, 1942; reported to
Fort Devens as private, Army of the United States, June 14, 1943; attended
Field Artillery Officer Candidate School, Fort Sill, August-December,
1943; commissioned Second Lieutenant, Field Artillery, December 2,
1943; assigned to Field Artillery Replacement Training Center, Fort
Bragg, December, 1943-January, 1944, and to 26th Infantry Division in
January, 1944; attended Field Artillery Motor Maintenance School, Fort
Sill, about February-May, 1944, assigned to Headquarters Battery, 263d
Field Artillery Battalion, 26th Infantry Division, Fort Jackson, about
May, 1944; went overseas October, 1944, going directly to France, during service in France acted principally as artillery observer
Lieutenant Haywood was reported missing in action December 26,
1944, during the advance near Grosbous, Luxembourg. Later reports gave
the information that he lost his life on that date when the cub plane from
which he was observing and correcting artillery fire was cut in half by an
enemy plane Lieutenant Haywood managed to bail out but was killed by
machine gun fire before reaching the ground. Buried in Luxembourg.
Posthumously awarded the Order of the Purple Heart. Survived by parents, a sister, Adele Haywood Graham (Smith Coll <r#-'4i), the wife of
John Elhs Graham, Jr., '40 S., of Scarsdale, and paternal grandmother. His
brother, Ensign Alfred W. Haywood, Jr., '43, U S N.R., died in action
April 29, 1944 (page 399).
Charles Alfred Higgins, Jr., Class of 1944.
Born July 16, 1922, in Philadelphia, Pa.
_^ Diedi March 24, 1945, m Germany
Father, Charles Alfred Higgins, president Hercules Powder Company,
Wilmington, Del.; director Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Mother,
Marion Glenn (Dunham) Higgins (B.A. Vassar Coll 1912)
Lawrenceville (NJ.) School Entered Yale September 25, 1940; member Davenport College, Yale Political Union, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and
Westminster Church (Presbytenan), Wilmington. Unmarried
Withdrew from college September 28, 1942; enlisted in Signal Corps
as private November 10, 1942; promoted Technical Corporal December,
1942; stationed at Fort Monmouth until September, 1943, when commissioned Second Lieutenant; attended Signal Corps Photography School
November, 1943-March, 1944; assigned to 195th Signal Photography
Company, Fort Benning, as instructor, transferred to 167th Signal Photography Company, Camp Crowder, June-July, 1944, and to 16th Headquarters Special Troops, Second Army, Camp Chaffee, July, 1944; at Fort
| Title | Yb 65, Obituary Records of Graduates of Yale University Deceased During the Years 1940-1945 |
| Creator | Yale University |
| Place of Publication | New Haven, Connecticut (Conn.) |
| Date | 1940-1945 |
| Call Number | Yb 65 |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Yale University -- Biography |
| Type | Periodical |
| Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3036259 |
| Repository | Manuscripts and Archives |
| Repository URL | http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa |
| Series | Bulletin of Yale University |
| Title | Page 219 |
| Transcript |
Yale College 219
Class of 1944. Member Church of St James the Less (Episcopal), Scarsdale. Unmarried.
Enlisted in Army Enlisted Reserve Corps May 25, 1942; reported to
Fort Devens as private, Army of the United States, June 14, 1943; attended
Field Artillery Officer Candidate School, Fort Sill, August-December,
1943; commissioned Second Lieutenant, Field Artillery, December 2,
1943; assigned to Field Artillery Replacement Training Center, Fort
Bragg, December, 1943-January, 1944, and to 26th Infantry Division in
January, 1944; attended Field Artillery Motor Maintenance School, Fort
Sill, about February-May, 1944, assigned to Headquarters Battery, 263d
Field Artillery Battalion, 26th Infantry Division, Fort Jackson, about
May, 1944; went overseas October, 1944, going directly to France, during service in France acted principally as artillery observer
Lieutenant Haywood was reported missing in action December 26,
1944, during the advance near Grosbous, Luxembourg. Later reports gave
the information that he lost his life on that date when the cub plane from
which he was observing and correcting artillery fire was cut in half by an
enemy plane Lieutenant Haywood managed to bail out but was killed by
machine gun fire before reaching the ground. Buried in Luxembourg.
Posthumously awarded the Order of the Purple Heart. Survived by parents, a sister, Adele Haywood Graham (Smith Coll |