DOB/DOD: September 16, 1920 (Meriden, CT) – February 27, 1945; 24 years old
MARITAL STATUS: Unmarried
LOCAL ADDRESS: 2 Billiard Street, Meriden
ENLISTMENT: June 16, 1944, in Hartford, Connecticut
SERVICE NUMBER: 987668
UNIT: Company I, 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, 4th Marine Division
MILITARY OCCUPATIONAL SPECIALTY: 0521, Basic Marine
FAMILY: Born to John Logoyke (1884-1955) and Annie Audevich Logoyke (1896-1955). Both parents were born in Russia. They died 5 months apart in 1955. The second youngest of five children. Siblings are Nicholas (1915-1974), Walter (1917-2003), Natalie Logoyke Yasensky (1918-2018), and Alexandria “Alice” Logoyke Bennett (1930-1998). 1, 2 Worked at Connecticut Telephone and Electric Corporation in Meriden prior to the service. 3
CIRCUMSTANCES: Boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, in the summer of 1944. Camp Lejeune for Infantry training in the Fall of 1944. Assigned to the 30th Replacement Draft of the 4th Marine Division in early 1945. 5 Died from “multiple wounds.” 4 He was in the Marine Corps for 8 months.
Photos contributed by Ruth Borsuk, Volunteer, Meriden Historical Society.
From The Journal (Meriden) January 18, 1949
The body of Private Alexander Logoyke, U.S. Marine Corps, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Logoyke of 64 Webster Street, will arrive in Meriden on the 2:07 p.m. train Thursday afternoon. His body was returned to this country recently aboard the U.S. Army Transport Dalton Victory from the Pacific. Private Logoyke was 24 years old when he was killed on February 27, 1945, in the invasion of Iwo Jima. Besides his parents, he is survived by two brothers, Nicholas and Walter Logoyke, and two sisters, Mrs. Frank Yasensky and Mrs. Ward Bennett, of this city. The funeral will be held at 8:45 a.m. Friday morning from the funeral home of John J. Ferry and Sons, 88 East Main Street, and at 9:30 a.m. at Saints Peter and Paul Russian Orthodox Church. Burial will be in the Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 3 to 10 o’clock on Thursday evening.
Initially buried in the 4th Marine Division Cemetery on Iwo Jima, Plot 1, Row 21, Grave 1038. At his mother’s request, his remains were repatriated and buried on January 21, 1949, in Saint Peter and Paul Cemetery, 366 Westfield Road, Meriden, Connecticut; plot number unknown. 4 Photo by Jeff DeWitt. On the first visit, the footstone was completely buried.
1 – 1930 census https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/6224/
2 – 1940 census https://www.ancestry.com/cs/1940-census
3 – https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2238/
4 – USMC Casualty Report received via FOIA request
5 – USMC Muster Rolls: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1089/