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Name:
Lovell Philip Whitman Jollymore
Rank:
Sergeant First Class
Service Number:
33562485
Service:
Company F, 2nd Battalion,
23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Division, US Army
Awards:
Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal, WWII Victory Medal,
Combat Infantryman Badge, Korean Service Medal,
United Nations Service Medal,
National Defense Service Medal,
Korean Presidential Unit Citation,
Republic of Korea War Service Medal, Purple Heart
Date of Birth:
May 26, 1923
Place of Birth:
Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
Date of Enlistment:
March 8, 1943
Place of Enlistment:
Baltimore, Maryland
Age at Enlistment:
19
Address at Enlistment:
Middle River, Baltimore, Maryland
Occupation:
Electrician Helper
Date of Death:
April 6, 1951
Age:
27
Cemetery:
Baltimore National Cemetery, Beechfield, Baltimore, Maryland
Grave:
Section I, Site 13734
Lovell Philip Jollymore was the son of George Whitman Jollymore (1892-1970) and Mary Catherine De La
Villeguay (1895–1972) of Middle River, Maryland. His father was born in Brule, Colchester County, Nova
Scotia. His mother was born in Bay St. Lawrence, Victoria County, Cape Breton, NS.
Lovell had six siblings – George Anthony Jollymore (1917–1990), James Warren Jollymore (1921–1987),
Ira David Jollymore (1926–1979), Mary Leona Pearl Jollymore (1932–2000), and Dawn Catherine Jollymore
(1934–1997). He also had a half-sister Edna Mae Davis (1914-1989), raised by his maternal aunt (his mother’s
sister) Marie-Bertha-Thecle De La Villeguay.
Lovell immigrated to the United States in 1927.
In the Second World War Lovell’s brother James ‘Jim’ Warren Jollymore served in the US Army, enlisting
November 16, 1942 (Service Number 33382952). He was assigned to Company A, 12th Training Battalion at
Camp Wheeler in Georgia, in February 1943 and served in the US Army until and discharged November 15,
1945.
Lovell also enlisted and served during World War II. When he registered for the US Draft on June 30, 1942, he
was working for electrical contractor Emerson Emmit Talbot in Baltimore. He had served in the Pacific
Theatre with the 865th Engineer Aviation Battalion of the US Army. A Corporal at the time, he signed his
petition for naturalization for US Citizenship on July 1, 1944, while serving in New Guinea.
During the Korean War, he was called into service from the enlisted reserve in 1950 and went overseas
January 24, 1951.
In April of 1951, Sergeant First Class Lovell was serving in a rifle company of the 23rd Infantry Regiment. His
Military Occupation Specialty, or MOS, is listed as a Combat Construction Specialist.
Sergeant First Class Lovell Phillip Whitman Jollymore was seriously wounded by the enemy in South Korea on
April 6, 1951, and died as a result of the wounds later the same day. Lovell’s Company F, 2nd Battalion
received a probing attack by an estimated enemy platoon at 0400 hrs on April 6, 1951, which was repulsed
with the aid of heavy supporting weapons fire. F and E Companies received an intense volume of mortar fire
from 1000 to 1200 hrs. The fighting occurred around Hill 578. 541 547 882
Lovell’s body was repatriated to the United States and he was interred on October 16, 1951, at the Baltimore
National Cemetery in the Beechfield neighborhood of Baltimore in Maryland.
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