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Personal info

Full name
MORGAN, Raymond Richard
Date of birth
14 October 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Great Cacapon, Morgan County, West Virginia
Hometown
Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota

Military service

Service number
35754445
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
G Company,
2nd Battalion,
320th Infantry Regiment,
35th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
10 January 1945
Place of death
Near Martelange, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 3 37

Immediate family

Members
Albert W. Morgan (father)
Nellie L. (Foreback) Morgan (mother)
John V. Whisner (stepfather)
Albert G. Morgan (brother)
Esther L. Whisner (half-sister)
Reid R. Wishner (half-brother)
Bernice R. Wishner (half-sister)
June J. Wishner (half-sister)
John K. Whisner (half-brother)

More information

Pvt Raymond R. Morgan was employed at the B & O Railroad Company before he enlisted in Clarksburg, West Virginia on 13 May 1943.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments.

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 / 1930/1940 Census / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card, After Action Report 35th Infantry Division
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery