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Personal info

Full name
MURCHISON, Ivan Edgar
Date of birth
1926
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Maine
Hometown
Aroostook County, Maine

Military service

Service number
31401541
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
D Company,
36th Tank Battalion,
8th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
5 March 1945
Place of death
Rheinberg, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
C 17 22

Immediate family

Members
Charles F. Murchison (father)
Helen R. (Dale) Murchison (mother)
James C. Murchison (brother)
Joyce Murchison (sister)

More information

Pvt Ivan E. Murchison graduated from Caribou High School in Caribou, Maine in 1944.

He enlisted on 3 August 1944 at Portland, Maine and trained in Camp Blanding. He was sent overseas on 15 January 1945.
At the time of Pvt Murchison's death, his father was serving with the Royal Canadian Engineers in Holland.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Astrid van Erp www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.8th-armored.org, www.ancestry.com - Family Tree / Headstone and Interment Record

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, www.ancestry.com - Caribou High School Yearbook 1944