Harry Clark Morrissey

PRIVATE FIRST CLASS HARRY CLARK MORRISEY was born on October 8, 1915 to Charles and Clara Morrissey in New Hampshire. He was the second child, brother Charles being two years older. 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 Charles 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 Harry Morrissey had joined the Marines.

Private First Class Harry Clark Morrissey was killed in action on Guadalcanal on October 9, 1942. His brother, Charles R. Morrissey, who had been inducted into the United States Army in 1941, 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. 

The body of Harry Morrissey was not recovered. He is memorialized at Fort William McKinley, Manila, Philippine Islands, and at the Beverly National Cemetery in Beverly NJ. The brothers were survived by their parents, and 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 Morrissey lived until December of 1976, passing on in Phoenix AZ.