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Personal info

Full name
MURRAY, Martin Joseph
Date of birth
3 October 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33140489
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
179th Infantry Regiment,
45th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
6 October 1944
Place of death
Grandvillers, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 33 16

Immediate family

Members
Thomas Murray (father)
Jane (Bartleson) Murray (mother)
William L. Murray (brother)
Donald Murray (brother)
Thomas Murray (brother)
Howard Murray (brother)
Mildred Murray (sister)

More information

Pvt Martin J. Murray enlisted in Fort George G. Meade, Maryland on 10 February 1942 and was sent overseas in January 1944.

He was awarded the Purple Heart for the first time for wounds sustained at Anzio beachhead on 2 May 1944. After recovering for nearly a month in a military hospital, he returned to his unit.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Pennsylvania Veteran Compensation Application Files WWII / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1930 Census, www.newspapers.com, http://www.45thdivision.org
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy