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Personal info

Full name
MURDOCK, Edison
Date of birth
1911
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma
Hometown
Davis, Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma
Ethnicity
Native American

Military service

Service number
38015074
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
371st Field Artillery Battalion,
99th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died non-Battle
Date of death
5 August 1945
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
E 7 11

Immediate family

Members
Bill McCoy (stepfather)
Etta S. McCoy (stepmother)
Frances McCoy (stepsister)
Loa (Reed) Murdock (wife)
Dolores J. Murdock (daughter)

More information

Pfc. Edison Murdock was a member of the Sac and Fox Tribe. He was married to Loa Reed, a member of the Mexican Kick Tribe, on 4 August 1932, but divorced some years later.

He enlisted on 20 November 1940 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Source of information: Yannick, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / World War II Army Enlistment Records / U.S., Indian Census Rolls / 1940 Census / Oklahoma Marriage Records
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