• April 22, 1923 – Nov. 2, 1944
• Columbia, Tennessee
• Business Adm. – 1941-1943
• Private First Class – Army
• KIA, H Co, 415th Inf Reg, 104th Inf Division.
• Artillery Shell on the Meuse line at the Belgian Border
• Zion Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Maury County, Tennessee. 

Meredith Smith King Jr. (April 22, 1923 – Nov. 2, 1944) was born in Columbia, Tennessee. He was a student at the University of Tennessee for Business Administration from 1941 until he enlisted in the United States Army in 1943. He was a Private First Class serving in Europe with the 415th Infantry Regiment in the 104th Infantry Division. He was mortally wounded by an artillery shell while participating in the 104th’s assault on the German lines at the Meuse River near the Belgian border in October 1944 and later died from his injuries on November 2, 1944. He is buried at Zion Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Maury County, Tennessee. 

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