Richard Eugene Movold

  Research Notes:

I have an extensive research article, "Richard E Movold, research notes World War II", written on 2 Aug 2010.
Location: my computer, file folder (under his father), Leo Eugene Movold

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1. Military Service

- Enlisted (Volunteered) 17 April 1943
- Killed in Action in Germany on Jan 22, 1945
- Awarded the Bronze Star Medal posthumously; also had been awarded the Purple Heart Medal [ The Purple Heart is awarded to members of the Armed Forces of the United States who after 5 April 1917 have been wounded or killed in action against an enemy of the United States or an opposing armed force, while serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict, as the result of acts of enemy or hostile opposing forces, as a result of terrorist attacks or attacks on peacekeeping forces since 28 March 1973, or by friendly fire in circumstance as described above; from the American Battle Monuments Commission website ]
- unit - 302 Infantry Regiment, 94th Infantry Division; Service # 39006136 --- this is from the American Battle Monuments Commission website - www.abmc.gov

L company ; http://www.onelastmission.com/files/combo3%203-24.pdf


2. Birth - obit from Everett Herald Daily, 7 Feb 1945; also from MN Birth Index

3. "obit" provides some detail on his time at high school

4. Death and Burial

- from obit from Everett Herald Daily, 7 Feb 1945 - undated article gives some details of his death - and commendation/Bronze Star
- American Battle Monuments Commission, [ http://www.abmc.gov/search-abmc-burials-and-memorializations/detail/WWII_90235#.VWClAU9VhBc ]
- Find a Grave,
- military service/memorial at www.historylink.org (WA State Honor Roll, Garden of Rememberance World War II; part 6 - M-R; listing of Washington State citizens "who gave their lives in the service of their communities and country").

from www.snohomishhistory.com; 2005 Darilee Bednar
project was started August 2005 when Jim Shipman, a Marysville Historian, brought in a photocopy of a WWII scrapbook that was kept by an unknown person during the war years. 1500+ undated articles from the Everett Herald, the local newspaper for Everett Washington. And even though the articles are undated I believe that they offer historical information about the military service of many Snohomish County Washington men and women. I chose to use them as the center on this online presentation


4. R L Polk City Directory

- listed in same residence of Leo Movold in 1941 & 1944
- 1941, occupation as "ruler" with EP&PCo (same as his father) - not clear what this is, but likely worked in a saw mill where the size of thickness of lumber was measured with a ruler
- 1944, occupation as USN 'r' - not sure what this is (he was in the Army at that time); residence listed as the same as his parents

5. 1940 US Census

- age 16


6. US School Yearbooks ; ancestry.com [ 5 Oct 2013 ; 22 May 2015 ]


a. 1943 State College of Washington at Pullman, page 216 (ancestry p 222) - photo - 4th row, 4th in
- this photo for Theta Chi, but doesn't list him as a senior, etc, but implies a "Freshman"
- Pullman is 100+kms south of Spokane

b. 1945 yearbook; pages 8-9 "In Memoriam" ; with the name of Franklin D Roosevelt, Commander in Chief
Everett High School

Richard Movold
- a total of 78 names are listed, all graduates/students of the Everett High School

c. Everett HS, 1940; page 85, (p89, ancestry.com)

group photo; Richard as member of "baby gulls" - likely the junior basketball team (the varisty team was known as "Gulls"
- also a group photo, "Fire Squad", Dick Movald, page 57 (p61 ancestry)

d. Everett HS, 1942; page 88 (p92, ancestry); photo on page 89, spelled as Movald
- team members lost to graduation, Movold .... ^{3346,3350,3351}

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Residence - 1941, 1941, Everett, Snohomish Co, Washington, United States. ³³⁵²

2. Residence - 1940, 1 Apr 1940, Everett, Snohomish Co, Washington, United States. ²⁰⁴² Resided at parents home, 3427 Rockfeller Ave; Enumeration on 11 Apr 1940

3. Military Service: Served as a Private First Class, US Army, World War II; Killed in Action, 22 Jan 1945, Germany (Siegfried Line); enlisted 17 April 1943, 1943-1945. ^{3346,3349,3353,3354,3355}