WWII

Horace Leslie Ferrell

Rate / Rank
PHMC

Birthdate
January 19 1920

Date of Death
September 24 2010

Branch
US Navy

Active Duty Service
March 16 1940 - October 22 1945

Conflicts & Campaigns

Pacific; Solomon Islands, Tulagi and Guadalcanal

Significant Duty Stations

Enlisted Naval Receiving Station. Hospital Corpsman School, Norfolk Naval Hospital; US Naval Hospital, Washington, DC; Naval Air Station, Lake Hurst, New Jersey. Company A, 1st Parachute Battalion, 1st Marine Division; Headquarters Company, Marine Parachute Regiment, 1st Marine Air Command. Headquarters Battalion, 5th Marine Division. US Naval Hospital, Pensacola, Florida; Naval Training Station, College Station, Texas; US Naval Hospital, Norman, Oklahoma; Camp Shoemaker, California; USS Elkhart (APA-80); US Naval Hospital, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

Notes

Born; Grady County, Georgia. Burial; Cremated and placed in his wife's casket, Rothsville Lutheran Cemetery, Rothsville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.