Courtesy of the West
Virginia Veterans Database:
War: WWII
Last Name: Boggess, Jr.
First Name: William
Middle Name or Initial: W
Sex: M
County: Boone, West Virginia
Community:
Branch of Service: Navy
Rank: Seaman Second Class
Service Number:
Date of Death: 10 January 1045
Place of Death: South Pacific on Destroyer
LeRay Wilson
Cause of Death:
Place of Burial: Arlington National Cemetery
Father: W.W.
Mother: Addie May
Spouse:
Date of Marriage:
Place of Marriage:
Children:
Date Added to Memorial: Original
Source: Pentagon Form and newspaper clipping
(no date or Name of paper available.) & Charleston Daily Mail - death
notice - 24 February 1945; Jackson County Library, Ripley West Virginia-
WWII newspaper notebooks by Mr/Mr. Lockhart's - photo - death notice; Jackson
Herald 7 September 1948 - reburial
Notes: Graduated from Ripley High School in
1942.
BOGGESS, WILLIAM WARREN JR
USNR
DATE OF DEATH: 01/11/1945
BURIED AT: SECTION 17 SITE 18320-65
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
Posted:
30 September 2002 - Updated: 19 August 2003 Updated: 26 November
2005