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STAFF
SERGEANT CHARLES R. MORRISSEY was born in 1913 to Charles
F. and Clara Morrissey in New Hampshire. He was the first child, brother Harry Clark Morrissey
being two years younger. The family moved to Rhode Island, where
sister Pearl was born in 1921, before moving to Camden NJ. At the time
of the 1930 census, the family was renting a home at 123 North 21st
Street in Camden NJ, where the elder Morrissey worked as a laborer at the
RCA-Victor plant, and Clara
Morrissey also worked as a stitcher in a
factory. The family later moved to 577 Mickle
Street in Camden NJ. This house
is no longer standing, and the site is now occupied by
Camden's Ronald McDonald House. The family later
moved to 2730 Pleasant
Street, Camden NJ after Charles
Morrissey had been inducted into the United States Army. Younger brother
Harry Morrissey joined the
United States Marine Corps.
Private
First Class Harry Clark Morrissey was reported killed in action at
Guadalcanal on
October 9, 1942. Charles R. Morrissey, went overseas as a Staff Sergeant
with the 110th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division, was wounded,
taken prisoner, and died in a German POW camp on March 6, 1945. Charles
Morrissey was buried at the Lorraine American Cemetery in St.
Avold, France. The brothers were survived by
their parents, and their sister, Miss Pearl Morrissey. Clara Morrissey passed
away on January 18, 1949 at the home of her daughter at 1289 Dayton
Street in Camden. Charles F. Morrissey lived until December of 1976, passing
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