He had been an engineering student at the University of Mississippi for two years before his enlistment in the U.S. Army on 9 September 1942 at Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Mississippi. His death occurred while serving with the 1340th Engineer Combat Battalion.
Jack H Baughn, Sr (a resident of Hapeville, Georgia) ordered a flat granite military marker for his son's grave on 14 July 1948 from the Office of the QuarterMaster General, Memorial Divison, Washington, D.C. The request was approved and the marker ordered from Columbus, Mississippi on 15 September 1948 to be shipped in care of R.F. Baughn to the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Greenwood, Mississippi.
He had been an engineering student at the University of Mississippi for two years before his enlistment in the U.S. Army on 9 September 1942 at Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Mississippi. His death occurred while serving with the 1340th Engineer Combat Battalion.
Jack H Baughn, Sr (a resident of Hapeville, Georgia) ordered a flat granite military marker for his son's grave on 14 July 1948 from the Office of the QuarterMaster General, Memorial Divison, Washington, D.C. The request was approved and the marker ordered from Columbus, Mississippi on 15 September 1948 to be shipped in care of R.F. Baughn to the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Greenwood, Mississippi.