Name:
John Van Wie, Jr. Bergamini
Rank:
First Lieutenant
Serial Number:
16062
Unit:
4th Marine Regiment
Date of Death:
1944-07-28
State:
New York
Cemetery:
Athens Rural Cemetery, Athens, Greene County, New York, USA
Plot:
Lot 294
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John Van Wie Bergamini Jr. was born on July 24, 1920, in Chingford Hatch, London Borough of Waltham Forest, Greater London, England. He was the son of John Van Wie Bergamini and Clara Dorothy Hawke Bergamini.
He had joined the Marines shortly after graduating from Columbia to rescue his family, American missionaries, who were being held in a Japanese internment camp.
He served in Company I, 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Provisional Marine Brigade as a First Lieutenant during World War II. He was Killed in Action on July 28, 1944, during the Battle for Guam.
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