Birth:
 
Oct. 23, 1914
Death: Feb. 27, 2002
 
Note: Interment date 4-1-2002. Colonel US Army. Veteran Service Dates from 01-03-1940 to 06-30-1967. Information extracted from the National Cemetery Administration's National Gravesite Locator. http://www.cem.va.gov/
 
Burial:
Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington
Arlington County
Virginia, USA
Plot: Section 5-N1 Row 1 Site 2

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John E. Arthur Jr. 
NEWPORT NEWS -- Retired U.S. Army Col. John Elliott Arthur Jr., 87, 
passed away on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2002, after a brief illness. He 
was preceded in death by his first wife of 26 years and the mother of his children, Esther Austin Arthur; his parents, John E. III and Sara Daniels Arthur and his sister, Ruth Arthur Anderton. He is survived 
by his wife, Audrey; three daughters, Sharon Arthur Spencer and her 
spouse, retired U.S. Marine Corps Major C.W. Spencer, Catherine 
Arthur-MacDonald and her spouse, J. Alexander MacDonald, and Kim 
Arthur Pruden and her spouse, John (Jay) Pruden; two sons, retired 
U.S. Army Lt. Col. John E. 
Arthur V. and his spouse, Jessie E. Arthur and Charles W. Arthur and 
his spouse, Diane K. Arthur; his brother, Charles Daniels Arthur and 
brother-in-law, James R. Austin. He will be remembered by his 
grandchildren, Sara Spencer Sharratt, James and Colin MacDonald, 
Allison and John Arthur VI, Nichole, Emily and Austin Arthur and 
Ellen and Elizabeth Pruden, as a ``GREAT MAN''. Colonel Arthur was 
born in Reading, Pa., on Oct. 23, 1914. He had been a Hampton Roads 
resident since 1966. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh 
with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry, and subsequently 
earned Masters of Art degrees from George Washington University in 
Government Administration and International Affairs. Col. Arthur was 
commissioned in 1937 as a second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery 
Corps, through the University of Pittsburgh ROTC program. He embarked upon a career in his nation's service that was to span three 
continents and 30 years, until his retirement in 1967. After a 
Battery Officers Course at Fort Monroe, he was assigned as the 
Battery Commander and Artillery Operations Officer, 99th Coast 
Artillery, US Forces Panama/Trinidad/Surinam. In 1943, he departed 
the West Indies for a brief assignment as a Gunnery Instructor and 
then Student Officer at the AAA School at Camp Davis, North Carolina.

In 1945, Col. Arthur was assigned as the Assistant G2 (Intelligence), HQ, Tenth U.S. Army in Okinawa, Japan. He was a veteran of numerous 
World War II campaigns, and later served in General Douglas 
MacArthur's Headquarters as an Intelligence Staff Officer in Tokyo, 
Japan. On his return to the U.S., he went to the University of 
Delaware as an Assistant Professor of Military Science, prior to 
attending the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, 
Kan. In 1953, Col. Arthur was transferred to Stuttgart, Germany to 
assume command of the 889th AAA Battalion, 28th Infantry Division, 
followed by the command of the 42nd AAA (SP) Battalion, 9th Infantry 
Division. He then became the ACofS, G1 for 9th Infantry Division. In 
1957, Col. Arthur was assigned to the Armed Forces Staff College in 
Norfolk, with a subsequent assignment to Headquarters, Department of 
the Army, Washington, D.C. He also served with the Weapons Systems 
Evaluation Group, Department of Defense Research and Evaluation in 
the Office of the Secretary of Defense. In 1962, Col. Arthur 
proceeded to Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, as a student at the 
U.S. Army War College. Upon completion, he was assigned as the Army
Advisor to the Naval War College, Newport, R.I. Col. Arthur's final military command was as the area Defense Commander, 
Hampton Roads Army Air Defense (Nike Hercules) Command, 35th 
Artillery Brigade (AD), Norfolk. In his 30 years of service to the 
nation, Colonel Arthur had served five overseas assignments and his 
decorations included the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal, 
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Army 
Occupation Medal, and the Commendation Ribbon with Medal Pendant. 
Upon his retirement from active duty, Col. Arthur spent 10 years with the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company as a military 
contract administrator. An avid historian, he served on the Board of 
Directors and was past president of the Casemate Museum Foundation; 
liaison and past treasurer of the Fort Monroe Historical and 
Archaeological Society; and he was a former docent of the Casemate 
Museum. A memorial service will be held at the Chapel of the 
Centurion, Fort Monroe, on Monday, March 4 at 2 p.m. Interment with 
military honors will be held at a later date in Arlington National 
Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, expressions of sympathy may be made to 
the Casemate Museum at Fort Monroe or the Riverside Regional Medical 
Center Hospice Program in recognition of our caregivers. The family 
will receive visitors at home on Sunday, March 3, between 7 and 9
p.m. 
Arrangements are under the care of Peninsula Funeral Home. 

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about John E Col Arthur
Name: John E Col Arthur
Address: 105 Montague Cir
City: Williamsburg
State: Virginia
Zip Code: 23185-5009
Phone Number: 804-220-2163
Residence Years: 1995 1996 1997
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