WARRANT BOATSWAIN RAYMOND M. GALLISON, 91813 KIA

WARRANT BOATSWAIN RAYMOND M. GALLISON, 91813 US Navy KIA. Warrant Boatswain Gallison graduated from Haverhill High School in 1935 having played on the football team and in the band. He graduated from Massachusetts Nautical School as a third mate in the Maritime Service. He served on a tanker and then on a lighthouse tender in New England coastline waters. While employed as a rigger at the Portsmouth Navy Yard he enlisted in the Navy and was immediately assigned to sea duty on the submarine rescue ship USS Redwing as navigator and executive officer. He left the states in October, 1942, and participated in the invasion of North Africa. On June 29, 1943, as a unit of the task force for the invasion of Sicily, a torpedo struck the ship immediately below his gun position and he was declared missing in action. Warrant Boatswain Gallison was officially presumed to be dead on June 30, 1944. He leaves his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Victor G. Gallison, of  41 Smiley Ave., and one brother.

WARRANT BOATSWAIN RAYMOND M. GALLISON, 91813 US Navy KIA. Warrant Boatswain Gallison graduated from Haverhill High School in 1935 having played on the football team and in the band. He graduated from Massachusetts Nautical School as a third mate in the Maritime Service. He served on a tanker and then on a lighthouse tender in New England coastline waters. While employed as a rigger at the Portsmouth Navy Yard he enlisted in the Navy and was immediately assigned to sea duty on the submarine rescue ship USS Redwing as navigator and executive officer. He left the states in October, 1942, and participated in the invasion of North Africa. On June 29, 1943, as a unit of the task force for the invasion of Sicily, a torpedo struck the ship immediately below his gun position and he was declared missing in action. Warrant Boatswain Gallison was officially presumed to be dead on June 30, 1944. He leaves his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Victor G. Gallison, of  41 Smiley Ave., and one brother.

 

1- Haverhill Massachusetts – Haverhill  in World War Two