Ashmead, Morris Leland
Navy Seaman 1st class

Morris Leland Ashmead, age 23, from Wapello County Ottumwa, Iowa .

Parents: Florence Kyle Belvel

Service era: World War II

Date of death: Sunday, March 1, 1942
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Houston when the ship was attacked traveling from Batavia to Java.
Cemetery: Tablets of the Missing at Manila American Cemetery

Source: National Archives, American Battle Monuments Commission, USSHouston.org