Name:
Mervin Aaron Wanamaker
Rank:
Private
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Unit:
713th Military Police Battalion
Date of Death:
1944-03-24
State:
Pennsylvania
Cemetery:
Slatedale Cemetery, Slatedale, Pennsylvania
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Mervin Aaron Wanamaker was born on August 25, 1920. He was the son of Aaron A. Wanamaker and Annie S. Faust Wanamaker. He served in Company B, 713th Military Police Battalion as a Private during World War II. PVT Wanamaker died on March 24, 1944, at the age of 23, in Irvinestown, Northern Ireland, and was buried first in the Lisnabreeny Former American Military Cemetery in England. The cemetery closed in 1948 and his remains were exhumed and transferred. He is buried now in the Slatedale Cemetery, Slatedale, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA.