Name:
Arthur Joseph Dickens
Rank:
Private First Class
Serial Number:
532105
Unit:
3rd Marine Regiment
Date of Death:
1944-07-24
State:
Mississippi
Cemetery:
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii
Plot:
Section N
Row:
Grave:
Site 1397
Decoration:
Purple Heart
Comments:
Arthur Joseph Dickens was born on August 10, 1925, in Jackson County, Mississippi. He was the son of George Sherman Dickens and Lydia Edwina Goff Dickens.
He served in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division as a Private First Class during World War II. He was Killed in Action on July 24, 1944, during the Battle for Guam.