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Carl Edward Merritt, the son of William and Bertha (Card) Merritt, was born on December 15, 1908, in Hudson, New York. He was living in Schenectady by 1925.
Carl enlisted in the US Navy August 15, 1926. He had the rank of Chief Quartermaster. Carl was killed by a train in Fairfield, Connecticut, on June 9, 1943. He is buried in Vale Cemetery, Schenectady, New York.
Sources: The Schenectady Gazette, Find A Grave, Ancestry
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
For the Fallen
Laurence Binyon