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Sammamish Wall of Honor
Clayton Andrew Holsten
Class of January, 1941?
born: November 9, 1923;
Renton, King, Washington, USA

Research done by Claradell Shedd. PAGE IN PROGRESS

Clayton Andrew Holsten

Will research to see if Roy Philip Holsten graduated from Issaquah High School around 1928 or 1929. Records indicate he attended high school for three years. His service number was 39171406. Roy''s next of kin was listed as his sister, Mrs.Verna Racca, 6802 Portland Avenue, Tacoma, WA.

Clayton Andrew Holsten

Year		Rank		Status

1921		Born after Pine Lk School		Pine Lake School, Gilman, WA. Teacher was Mary Grover Miller.
1922				Pine Lake School, Gilman, WA. Teacher was Betty Henderson.
June, 1941		3 years of high school		Isssaquah High School; CHECK
September 18, 1929	x	Family; CHECK	x	Married Elizabeth "Betty" Beck in Seattle, WA
March 22, 1942	x	Enlisted	x	Enlisted in Tacoma, WA. Co. B, 35th Infantry Regiment, 90th Division. Purple Heart and Bronze Star
				35th Infantry Regiment ordered into active military service: 25 March 1942 at Camp Barkley, Texas.
July, 1944		PFC		Discharged from hospital. Casualty, battle
March 31 , 1946	x	US Army/PFC	x	Discharged
May 1, 1943- May 31, 1943	x	US Army/Pvt	x	WHERE
June 17, 1943	x	Enroute	x	From Moses Lake, WA to Walla Walla, WA. Changed service location
Fall, 1985	x	Family	x	WHERE
March 20, 2001	x	Deceased	x	Interred at Mount Vernon Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Skagit, Washington, USA. Find A Grave #20793243

35th Infantry, 90th Division
The 35th Regiment was attached to the 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii. It was sent to Guadalcanal, 25 November 1942, to relieve Marines near Henderson Field.

The division was organized in August 1917 as a National Guard formation with troops from Kansas and Missouri, after a few months as the 14th Division. It consisted of the 69th Infantry Brigade (137th and 138th Infantry Regiments) and the 70th Infantry Brigade (139th and 140th Infantry Regiments). It went overseas in May 1918. Upon arrival in France, the 35th Division was garrisoned near the front in Alsace. It received limited training from the French Army. The Division saw combat in the Meuse-Argonne offensive where it collapsed after five days of fighting. During World War I, Battery D of the 129th Field Artillery Regiment had, as a battery commander, Captain Harry S. Truman, later President of the United States.

The Division was activated on 23 December 1940, as a National Guard Division from Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. The division departed for Europe on 12 May 1944. It arrived in the United Kingdom on 25 May 1944, and received further training. It landed on Omaha Beach, Normandy, 5–7 July 1944, and entered combat 11 July, fighting in the Normandy hedgerows, north of Saint-Lô.

1930 Kroll Township Map. Clayton was born in 1923, so presumably he lived at this Sammamish property in his early years.

Clayton was born November 9, 1923.
It is possible that Pine Lake School, shown above had been closed by that time, so Clayton
might have attended Sunny Hills Elementary School.

Clayton Andrew Holsten Seaman 3rd Class Co. B, 35th Inf Regiment, 90th Division US Coast Guard

Correct medals coming: American Campaign; Victory Medal; Navy Expeditionary Medal; United Nations Service Medal/Korea; Korean War Medal; Bronze Star, Purple Heart

References

(1) Information was obtained from the Records on Military Personnel Who Died, were Missing in Action, or Prisoners of War as a result of the Vietnam War. This document can be found online at the National Archives and Records Administration at http://www.archives.gov/.

(2) The comprehensive list of names from this site have been assembled and categorized according to date of birth. One can then associate from the date of birth approximately the time frame in which the individual may have been in military service.

Interred at Mount Vernon Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Skagit, Washington, USA. Find A Grave #2079324.

Music: "US Coast Guard"