Veterans' Memorial Project

Marion Griggs Jacobs

Farmington, IL

World War II

College: Liberal Arts & Sciences

Graduation Year: 1924

Service Branch: Army

Rank: Private First Class

Date of Birth: 07/29/1903

Date of Death: 10/29/1944

Private Jacobs served with the 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division and was killed in action on Leyte. He served with the same Division in landings at Attu where he was slightly wounded, and at Kwajalein. He is buried at the Manila American Cemetery, Plot B Row 7 Grave 130, Manila, Philippines. He was awarded the Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster.

-taken from Illinois Alumni News, March, 1946, and Web site above

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