Rank: Staff Sergeant
Unit: Troop C, 44th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, 11th Cavalry Group (Mecz)
Entered service: 4-Sep-1942
Enlisted: Salt Lake City, Utah
Enlisted by: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Date of birth: 30-May-1921
Hometown: Cache County, Utah
Marital status: Single, with dependents. Parents: Marion Jessop and Caroline Eliza [Halversen] Jessop
Campaign: World War II
Date of casualty: 17-Apr-1945
Age at death: 23
Cause of death: Killed in action.
Location of fatality: Schweslaw, Germany
Place of interment: Hyrum City Cemetery, Hyrum, Utah, USA
Originally buried in the United States Military Cemetery, Margraten, Holland. Repatriated December 1948.
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