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Lindsey B. Williams Jr.


  

Enlisted: March 29, 1944  7th Army

Trained: Camp Adair, Oregan, Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo.,

Embarkation: Dec 6, 1944

Served: France

Awards; Purple Heart

KIA Eastern France Feb 6, 1945

 

 Mr. and Mrs. Lindsey B. Williams Sr., of Hager Hill have been notified that their son Pfc. Lindsey B. Williams, Jr., has been missing in France since the seventh of February. He is a Johnson County boy but entered the army from Troy, Ohio.

Paintsville Herald  Thursday  3-01-1945


County Boy Is Killed

Attended Meade Memorial High

    Mr. and Mrs. Lindsey B. Williams, Hager Hill, received a telegram on March 8, that their son, Pfc. Lindsey B. Williams Jr., was killed in action in France on February 11. Private Williams reached France in December, 1944 and attended Meade Memorial High School prior to entering the service. He was nineteen years of age. He is survived by his parents, two sisters and three brothers, one of whom is Corporal James H. Williams, now with the Army in Germany.

PAINTSVILLE HERALD

Thursday

March 15, 1945