Ashland Wisconsin

Edward Marshall Morrison, age 19, from Ashland County Ashland, Wisconsin .

Parents: Edward Morrison

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Thursday, July 6, 1950
Death details: On May 31, 2019, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced it has accounted for Private Edward Marshal Morrison, missing from the Korean War. Private Morrison entered the U.S. Army from Wisconsin and was a member of B Company, 1st Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. On July 6, 1950, he was killed by enemy small arms fire while taking cover in a foxhole at the platoon’s command post on Hill 135, located north of the village of Naech’on-ni, near Chonan, South Korea. Platoon members removed his body from the foxhole and placed it temporarily on the hillside, but the active enemy presence forced a withdrawal from the area and his remains could not be recovered at the time. In 1951, American Graves Registration Service personnel recovered a set of unidentified remains from an area near Kwang Jong-ni, South Korea, and interred PVT Morrison’s remains in the United Nations Military Cemetery (UNMC) at Tanggok. Along with other unidentified remains recovered from the Korean Peninsula to UNMC Tanggok, PVT Morrison’s remains were eventually shipped to the Central Identification (CIU), Japan. In 1954, his remains were determined “unidentifiable” and transferred to the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP), Hawaii, where they were interned as an unknown. In 2018, DPAA disinterred these from NMCP, and accessioned them into the DPAA laboratory. Using modern forensic techniques and historical facts, PVT Morrison’s remains were successfully identified. Private Morrison is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. His name is also inscribed on the Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, DC, which was updated in 2022 to include the names of the fallen.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Stoughton Courier (1950)