Richard H. Adair Died non Battle
Buried Chattanooga National Cemetery, Interment 30 Mar 1949, Section W, Site 1

Enlisted 23 May 1941
Son of Richard H. and Ann Adair

270th Quartermaster Battalion, Company C
Returned from overseas Tunisia II Corps Cemetery in 1949

Word has been received from the War Department of the death, Nov. 5 in Tunisia of Second Lt. Richard H. Adair, son of Mrs. R.H. Adair, 613½ West 10th Street. Lt. Adair, a graduate of Howard High School, also attended Clarke College in Atlanta. He has been in service more than two years and had been overseas four months. He was in the quartermaster corps.

  • Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Date of birth:
  • 1 August 1918
  • Date of death: 5 November 1943
  • County: Hamilton
  • Hometown: Chattanooga
  • Service Branch: Army/Army Air Forces
  • Division/Assignment: 270th Quartermaster Battalion
  • Theater: North Africa
  • Conflict: World War II
  • Burial/Memorial Location: Chattanooga National Cemetery, Chattanooga, TN
  • Location In Memorial: Pillar XII, Top Panel
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