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Personal info

Full name
SCALLY, Marvin Edgar
Date of birth
4 January 1917
Age
28
Place of birth
Florida
Hometown
Fort Myers, Lee County, Florida

Military service

Service number
34796046
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
23rd Engineer Battalion,
3rd Armored Division
Awards
Silver Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
16 April 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Bernburg-Köthen (Anhalt), Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
K 7 16

Immediate family

Members
Oscar P. Scally (father)
Maude (Short) Scally (mother)
Nellie M. Scally (sister)
Florine M. Scally (sister)
Nellie I. (Jones) Scally (wife)
Judy D. Scally (daughter)

More information

Pvt Marvin E. Scally graduated from Fort Meyers Senior High School with the class of 1934. He worked as a machinery operator before he enlisted at Camp Blanding, Florida on 11 November 1943.

Pvt Scally was believed to have been killed while laying pontoon bridges over the Elbe river.

He left behind a wife and three-year-old daughter.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / family trees, www.newspapers.com - The Fort Myers News-Press

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, www.newspapers.com - The Fort Myers News-Press