Category: 1st Marine Division, United States Marine Corps

Categories: United States Marine Corps Divisions

This category contains profiles of persons who served in the 1st Marine Division.

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The 1st Marine Division is a Marine infantry division of the United States Marine Corps headquartered at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. It is a subordinate unit of the I Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF).

It is the oldest and largest active duty division in the United States Marine Corps, representing a combat-ready force of more than 19,000 men and women. It is one of three active duty divisions in the Marine Corps today and is a multi-role, expeditionary ground combat force. It is nicknamed "The Old Breed".

The 1st Marine Division was assigned to:

• I Marine Expeditionary Force

For now, we are not anticipating creating categories for units smaller than the regiment, i.e. battalions, companies, platoons, so while you should note that in the biography section of the profile, add the profile to the regiment, which should be listed below.

Current primary subordinate units are:

• Headquarters Battalion
• 1st Marine Regiment
• 5th Marine Regiment
• 7th Marine Regiment
• 11th Marine Regiment
• 1st Tank Battalion
• 1st Reconnaissance Battalion
• 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion
• 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion
• 1st Combat Engineer Battalion
• 3rd Combat Engineer Battalion
• 3rd Assault Amphibian Battalion

A division can also have separate battalions/companies that fall directly under the division and not under a regiment, for instance the HQ element for the general and his staff, a tank, artillery, engineer, etc unit. If the profile user's unit has not been created yet, or is unknown, add the profile to this division category and as we review/monitor, we will create the unit category if appropriate and reassign the profile to it.

For more detailed service information about the unit and the personnel who served in the 1st Marine Division in specific wars/conflicts, see:

• World War II
• Vietnam War
• Persian Gulf War

For more information on the 1st Marine Division See:

• Wikipedia:1st_Marine_Division_(United_States)

This category is managed by the Military and War Project in association with the Categorization Project. For assistance with this or related categories ask in G2G making sure to tag your question with both categorization and Military_and_War.

William Allen 30 Mar 1894 Saratoga, Carbon, Wyoming, USA - 04 Oct 1953

Timothy Blakeman 31 Mar 1932 Morgan City, St. Mary, Louisiana, United States - 04 May 2020

Robert Booth 20 Jul 1934 Grand Rapids, Itasca, Minnesota, United States - 06 Mar 2015

Alfredo Gonzalez 23 May 1946 Edinburg, Hidalgo County, Texas United States of America - 04 Feb 1968

Wallace Greene 27 Dec 1907 Waterbury, Vermont, United States - 08 Mar 2003

Ralph Messenger 1920s - 1990s

John Murphy 04 Jan 1936 Chicago Heights, Cook County, Illinois, United States of America - 23 Oct 2010

David Shoup 30 Dec 1904 Battle Ground, Indiana, United States - 13 Jan 1983

Rodney Allan Walker 19 Oct 1933 Roanoke, Virginia, United States - 23 Jul 1996

William Whaling 26 Feb 1894 St Cloud, Minnesota, United States - 20 Nov 1989

Louis Wilson 11 Feb 1920 Brandon, Mississippi, United States - 21 Jun 2005

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