Born: April 15, 1926
Died: June 9, 1975
Campaigns Served: Namur, Saipan (wounded)
Highest Rank Attained: Private First Class
Decorations: Purple Heart
Robert Conway was born to Leo and Coletta Conway in 1926. He grew up in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Conway enlisted in the Marine Corps after the attack on Pearl Harbor; he qualified as a rifleman and joined Company A in 1943. He was promoted to Private First Class on August 30, 1943.
Conway was a rifleman - possibly an assistant to a BAR gunner - during the battle of Namur. He carried the BAR itself on Saipan, where he was wounded on July 5, 1944.
PFC Conway was transferred to Naval Hospital #10 on July 20; he would never return to the company. After the war, he moved back to Ohio, where he married. Conway died in Cuyahoga at the age of 49.