The Field Artillery Journal – November 1942

Station Of Unit1
          Camp Shelby, Mississippi, November 1942
Monday – 2nd November 1942
          Military Identification Card

          Battery ‘A” Men

          Caption: November 1942 – Sgt. Roland Demers Loading Howitzer

        A Textbook of Ordnance and Gunnery

Wednesday – 4th November 1942
    The Reveille – Volume II No. 43, 25 November 19422
Thursday – 4th November 1942
          Staff Sergeant Joseph T. Lyons – Honorable Discharge
Thursday – 5th November 1942
          2nd Lt. Joseph Thaddeus Lyons – Field Artillery School
                                                                        Graduation Exercise
                                                                        Class #37
          Fort Sill Field Artillery School Graduation Class No. 37, August 13 To November 5, 1942
    Post WWII Roster
Thursday – 5th November 1942
          Special Order No. 264 – Transfers of 2nd Lt. Joseph
     Thaddeus Lyons from Fort Sill Field Artillery School to Camp
     Shelby into the 244th 

     Lt. Lyons is pictured here with five of his seven brothers in front of the Lyons family residence at 400 Lee Street, Biloxi, Mississippi. (L-R) 2nd Lt. Joseph T., John, Robert (Bobby), William (Billy), and Corporal Matthew (Matt). Standing in front of the older boys is Steven (age 5). Brothers Kenneth and James are not present in the photograph.

     Lt. Lyons was discharged from the enlisted ranks on November 4th, 1942, at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The following day, November 5th, 1942, he received a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant at Fort Sill. Three days later, on November 8th, he was married and subsequently reported to Fort Benning to join the 244th Field Artillery Battalion.

Saturday – 7th November 1942
          “No Lite Tradere” – Yield Not
Wednesday – 11th November 1942
     The Reveille – Volume II No. 44, 11 November 19423
Wednesday – 11th November 1942
          DUI – 244th Field Artillery Battalion
Wednesday – 11th November 1942
          Coat-of-Arms – 244th Field artillery Battalion

          Caption: November 1942 – 105mm Howitzer Section – Sgt’s Roland Demers, Linel Fectean, Ray Cormier

Wednesday – 18th November 1942
          Lt. Marriott – From Sister Betsy 

          Battery ‘A” Men

          Caption: November 1942 Leaving For An Overnight Bivouac – Sgt Cormier, Sgt. Demers, Sgt. Fecteay, Sgt. Delahantey

Friday – 20th November 1942
          Hattiesburg Mississippi area newspaper
Friday – 20th November 1942
          Hulett Undertaking Co. Funeral Home Record

     This photograph was taken at the east entrance of the Hulett Undertaking Company in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Battery B personnel carefully handle the remains of Private Creevey, who is shown being loaded onto a caisson for transportation to the train depot and eventual return to Charleroi, Pennsylvania.

Charleroi Newspaper
Leonard M. Pavlic Funeral Home Book, Charleroi, Pa.
Charleroi Newspaper, Page 1
          Mr. and Mrs. John Creevey, 309 McKean Avenue – Page One
Charleroi Newspaper, Page 2
          Continued from page one

          Military Color Guard at Pvt. Creevey’s grave side

Charleroi Newspaper
          Private Creevey rests in the Calvary Cemetery, Section A, Lot 60, Grave No. 2, Washington County, Charleroi, Pennsylvania
Wednesday – 25th November 1942
    The Reveille – Volume II No. 46, 25 November 19424
Monday – 30th November 19425
          Strength Last Day (Commissioned And Enlisted)
DATEOFFICERSENLISTED MENTOTALINCREASEDECREASE
August 194224881129
September 194225569594482
October 1942265695951
November 1942295885878
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  1. Department of The Army, The Adjutant General’s Office, History of The 244th Field Artillery Battalion 8 August 1942 to 15 March 1944
  2. The University of Southern Mississippi, McCain Library & Archives
  3. The University of Southern Mississippi, McCain Library & Archives
  4. The University of Southern Mississippi, McCain Library & Archives
  5. Department of The Army, The Adjutant General’s Office, History of The 244th Field Artillery Battalion 8 August 1942 to 15 March 1944