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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.

Remembering the Korean War Korean War Casualties with a Nova Scotia Connection

Sources: Korean War Project American Battle Monuments Commission

Lovell's brother James, their mother, and Lovell

Baltimore National Cemetery