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STAFF SERGEANT JOHN
McCAUGHEY was born in Pennsylvania in 1917 to Robert and Ida McCaughey.
The family moved to New jersey in the early 1920s, and in 1930 they were
renting a house at 503 Kings Highway in Brooklawn NJ. At the time of the
1930 census. Robert McCaughey was the working as a salesman for a tea
company, daughters Edna, 19, and Annette, 16, had gone to work as
assemblers in the radio industry. After the two sisters came Robert Jr.,
John, Richard, Hugh, and Alexander.
John McCaughey was
inducted into the United States Army. He was assigned to a military
police unit. He was killed in action in the Philippines on May 3, 1945.
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