HOLT, Hyman Price, Jr.

Rank:

Aviation Machinist's Mate 1c

Service Branch:

U.S. Navy

Serial Number:

Division:

Plane:

Company:

Battalion:

Function:

Status:

Killed in a routine flight from a naval base

Date of death:

August 24, 1944

Place of death:

England

Age at death:

21

Awards:

Burial 1:

Burial 2:

Florence National Cemetery
Florence County, South Carolina

Grave number:

Plot C, 1

Cenotaph:

Born:

October 8, 1923

Hometown:

Bermuda Section, Dillon County, South Carolina

Family:

Parents:
Hyman Price Holt, Sr. (1896 - 1986)
Emma Turbeville Holt (1902 - 1973)

Spouse:


Children:


Siblings:
Mrs. Dorothy L. Turpin
Helen Holt Gibson (1927 - 2010)
Patsy Ruth Holt
Douglas Holt

Additional information:

NOK: parents Mr. and Mrs. Hyman Price Holt, Sr., Dillon (1940s). His father, Hyman Price Holt, Sr. was a veteran of WW I, and is also buried at Florence National Cemetery.

Research by: Victoria Proctor, genealogist

Sources: Dillon War Memorial, NARA, American Battle Monuments Commission, The Dillon Herald August 31, 1944, page 1, col. 6 (report of death)

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