Portrait of Dexter Murray
Born September 15, 1925 in Gloucester
Rank: Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class. Service: Seabees. Division/Ship: 13th Special Battalion. Theater: South Pacific. Dates of Service: 1943 - 1946. Specific Battles: Invasion of Guam. Special Citations: Bronze Star.

Born in his family's Maplewood Avenue Kitchen, Dexter Murray had three brothers and one sister. All four boys in the family served in combat during the war. At 17, eager to enlist in the Marines, color blindness sent him instead to the 13th Special Battalion of the Seabees where he handled munitions and resupplied combat troops in the Pacific. He earned a Bronze Star for his actions during the invasion in Guam. On a train to Boston where he was 20, Murray would meet his future wife, Marion Hubbard. The couple married six years later, and have been so for 64 years. They have seven children. When one of his sons was asked at school, "Where is the Statue of Liberty?," he answered to the best of his knowledge, "on my father's arm," referring to the tattoo on his left bicep. Murray spent 15 years in the Gloucester Police Department as well as working as a quarryman and for United Engineers. He remains active in the quest to make sure no one forgets our MIAs and POWs.