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World War I (1914-1918)

Robert M. Murray was born in Delaware County on February 8, 1887. By 1915, he was living in the city of Schenectady. 

On October 1, 1917, Robert enlisted in the United States Army.  He was a private first class serving with Headquarters Company, 105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Division. On May 8, 1918, he was sent overseas aboard the U.S. Army troopship the USS George Washington. On September 27, 1918, Robert was killed in combat in Ronssoy, France. He is buried in the Somme American Cemetery in France.

Sources: 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