244th Field Artillery Battalion

November 1942

Fort Sill Field Artillery Journal – November 1942

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

          Camp Shelby – Battery ‘A” Men

          Caption reads – November 1942 – Sgt. Roland Demers Loading Howitzer

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
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 shown 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 his big boys is Steven (age 5).  Not in the picture are brothers Kenneth and James.
     Lt. Lyons was discharged from the enlisted ranks November 4th, 1942 at Fort Sill OK.  The next day, November 5th, 1942 he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant also at Fort Sill.  Three days later, November 8th he was married and then he was off to Fort Benning and the 244th F.A. Battalion.

Saturday – 7th November 1942
          “No Lite Tradere” – Yield Not
Wednesday – 11th November 1942
          DUI – 244th Field Artillery Battalion
Wednesday – 11th November 1942
          Coat-of-Arms – 244th Field artillery Battalion

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

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

          Camp Shelby – Battery ‘A” Men

          Caption reads – 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 photo taken at the east door of the Hulett Undertaking Company, Hattiesburg Mississippi.  Battery B men take care with Private Creevey’s remains shown here being loaded onto a caisson for transportation to the train depot and his 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
Monday – 30th November 19422
          Strength Last Day (Commissioned And Enlisted)

DATEOFFICERSENLISTED MENTOTALINCREASEDECREASE
August 194224881129
September 194225569594482
October 1942265695951
November 1942295885878

  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. Department of The Army, The Adjutant General’s Office, History of The 244th Field Artillery Battalion 8 August 1942 to 15 March 1944