Jay V. Ledgerwood
Rank: Private First Class
Branch: Army
UT Major/Affiliation: Business Administration, 1940-1943
Hometown: Knoxville, TN
- Oct. 10, 1923 – March 25, 1945
- Born in Knoxville, Tennessee
- Business Administration 1940-1943
- Private First Class – Army
- 104th Inf Reg, 26th Inf Div. Died of spinal meningitis in Germany.
- Lynnhurst Cemetery in Knoxville, Tennessee
Jay Vivian Ledgerwood Jr. (Oct. 10, 1923 – March 25, 1945) was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. He attended the University of Tennessee for Business Administration from 1940 until he entered service in April 1943. He was trained at Fort McClellan, Alabama, and Fort Jackson, South Carolina, with the United States Army. He was deployed to the European Theater in 1944 as a Private First Class with the 104th Infantry Regiment of the 26th Infantry Division in General Patton’s Third Army. He saw action in France, Luxembourg, and Germany, particularly on the Siegfried Line. He died on March 25, 1945, in Germany after he contracted spinal meningitis while serving on the front line. PFC. J. V. Ledgerwood Jr. is buried at Lynnhurst Cemetery in Knoxville, Tennessee.
