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Personal info

Full name
MURRAY, James
Date of birth
28 May 1918
Age
26
Place of birth
Rhode Island
Hometown
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
32312538
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
D Company,
307th Airborne Engineer Battalion,
82nd Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
20 September 1944
Place of death
Beek, the Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
P 7 15

Immediate family

Members
Robert Murray (father)
Mary E. (Mellor) Murray (mother)
Isabel Murray (sister)
Agnes Murray (sister)
Jean Murray (sister)
Ruth Murray (sister)
Clarissa N. (Weldon) Murray (wife)

More information

Pvt James Murray worked in the aircraft industry before he enlisted at Fort Jay, New York on 10 April 1942.

Pvt Murray was killed at a roadblock in Beek together with Pvt Ralph C. Pulliam, Pfc James S. Stephenson and Pvt William B. Harris.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Molenhoek, near Nijmegen.

Source of information: www.307th.org, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Family Trees, www.bevrijdingsmuseum.nl

Photo source: www.307th.org, www.ancestry.com - Joe