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222 Yale University Obituary Record business board Yale Record two years; member Trumbull College and Alpha Sigma Phi. Unmarried Withdrew from college September 29, 1942, to volunteer as ambulance driver American Field Service, sailed for North Africa November, 1942, and served with British Ninth Army in Beirut, Aleppo, Zahle, and Baalbek until August, 1943, transferred to Italy, working near the front lines with units of British Eighth and American Fifth armies at Salerno and Cassino October, 1943-July, 1944 Volunteer Marshall was killed instandy when a mortar bomb exploded direcdy over his head on the roof of a small shelter at Regimental Aid Post. Buried in Military Cemetery, Montecchio, Italy. Survived by parents and a brother, James W. Marshall, Jr, A.U.S. Lucien Memminger, Jr., Class of 1944. Born May 18, 1922, in Leghorn, Italy. Died August 24,1944, at Fort Knox, Ky. Father, Lucien Memminger (Univ. of the South 1896-1900), retired member U S. Foreign Service; vice and deputy consul general Boma, Africa, Naples, Beirut, Smyrna, and Pans; consul at Rouen, Madras, Leghorn, Italy, and Bordeaux, France, consul general Belfast, Ireland, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Pretoria, South Africa; son of Rev. Robert Withers Memminger and Susan (Mazyck) Memminger. Mother, Mabel Elizabeth (Dibell) Memminger (B.A. Western Coll. for Women 1910; M.A. Univ. Illinois 1913 and Stanford Umv. 1914). Episcopal High School, Alexandria, Va. Entered Yale September, 1940; member athletic committee, Yale Community Council, Freshman year; president Yale Community Council Senior year; Yale University Glee Club three years, member Jonathan Edwards College (football, basketball, and boxing teams; captain touch football team summer 1942), Yale Political Union, Undergraduate Board of Deacons, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Book and Snake, and Episcopal church. Unmarried. Withdrew from college in February, 1943; entered Army of the United States as private at Fort Devens February, 1943; received basic training at Fort Knox; attached to 17th Battalion, A. R. Tank Corps; later volunteered to serve in 28th Airborne Tank Battalion; promoted Corporal June, 1944; transferred to reconnaissance unit of Airborne Armored Force. Corporal Memminger was killed when a package of nitrostarch, being used in demolition practice, exploded. Buried in Riverside Cemetery, Asheville, S C Survived by parents, a sister, Miss Elizabeth Anne Memminger, and a brother, Charles Gustavus Memminger, all of Asheville.
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 222 |
Transcript | 222 Yale University Obituary Record business board Yale Record two years; member Trumbull College and Alpha Sigma Phi. Unmarried Withdrew from college September 29, 1942, to volunteer as ambulance driver American Field Service, sailed for North Africa November, 1942, and served with British Ninth Army in Beirut, Aleppo, Zahle, and Baalbek until August, 1943, transferred to Italy, working near the front lines with units of British Eighth and American Fifth armies at Salerno and Cassino October, 1943-July, 1944 Volunteer Marshall was killed instandy when a mortar bomb exploded direcdy over his head on the roof of a small shelter at Regimental Aid Post. Buried in Military Cemetery, Montecchio, Italy. Survived by parents and a brother, James W. Marshall, Jr, A.U.S. Lucien Memminger, Jr., Class of 1944. Born May 18, 1922, in Leghorn, Italy. Died August 24,1944, at Fort Knox, Ky. Father, Lucien Memminger (Univ. of the South 1896-1900), retired member U S. Foreign Service; vice and deputy consul general Boma, Africa, Naples, Beirut, Smyrna, and Pans; consul at Rouen, Madras, Leghorn, Italy, and Bordeaux, France, consul general Belfast, Ireland, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Pretoria, South Africa; son of Rev. Robert Withers Memminger and Susan (Mazyck) Memminger. Mother, Mabel Elizabeth (Dibell) Memminger (B.A. Western Coll. for Women 1910; M.A. Univ. Illinois 1913 and Stanford Umv. 1914). Episcopal High School, Alexandria, Va. Entered Yale September, 1940; member athletic committee, Yale Community Council, Freshman year; president Yale Community Council Senior year; Yale University Glee Club three years, member Jonathan Edwards College (football, basketball, and boxing teams; captain touch football team summer 1942), Yale Political Union, Undergraduate Board of Deacons, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Book and Snake, and Episcopal church. Unmarried. Withdrew from college in February, 1943; entered Army of the United States as private at Fort Devens February, 1943; received basic training at Fort Knox; attached to 17th Battalion, A. R. Tank Corps; later volunteered to serve in 28th Airborne Tank Battalion; promoted Corporal June, 1944; transferred to reconnaissance unit of Airborne Armored Force. Corporal Memminger was killed when a package of nitrostarch, being used in demolition practice, exploded. Buried in Riverside Cemetery, Asheville, S C Survived by parents, a sister, Miss Elizabeth Anne Memminger, and a brother, Charles Gustavus Memminger, all of Asheville. |