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John "Chet" Ashworth (1894-1994) - U.S. Marine Corp., WWI
- served with the 77th Company, 6th Machine-Gun Battalion, 2nd Division as a Gunnery Sargent. He participated in the battles of the Argonne Forest and Belleau Wood, where he
earned a Silver Star for bravery.
Later he was a captain in the Massachusetts
State Guard during World War II.
Mr. Ashworth was born in Waltham, graduated
from Colby College in 1916, and played semipro baseball
for four years in Texas before returning to Winthrop, where he joined the
Housing Authority. He was also a member and past Commander of American Legion Post 146, the Veterans of
Foreign Wars and the Winthrop Elks.
Memorial location: At circle in Senior Housing
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