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Personal info

Full name
CARNOCHAN, Gouverneur Morris Jr
Date of birth
7 July 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Manhattan, New York County, New York City, New York
Hometown
Cambridge, Somerset County, New Jersey

Military service

Service number
32386894
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
H Company,
2nd Battalion,
328th Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Silver Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
26 December 1944
Place of death
Insenborn, Luxembourg

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 16 29

Immediate family

Members
Gouverneur M. Carnochan (father)
Eleanor C. (Taylor) Carnochan (mother)
Sibyl (Bliss) Carnochan (stepmother)
Eleanor M. Carnochan (sister)
Walter B. Carnochan (stepbrother)

More information

Pvt Gouverneur M. Carnochan Jr. attended Harvard University.

He was a descendant of Lewis Morris, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

He enlisted in Newark, New Jersey on 27 June 1942 and was sent overseas in October 1944.

He was killed by by small arms fire.

Pvt Carnochan was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Grand-Failly, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Roy Hopkins Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files / New York Birth Index, www.findagrave.com - R.C., www.fold3.com - 26th Infantry Division 

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery, Loomis School 1937, Harvard University 1941