Haldane, Andrew Allison “Ack Ack”, born 22-08-1917, in Lawrence, 
Essex, Massachusetts, United States, the second oldest son of Sydney Haldane and Margaret Allison. Andrew also had an older sister. Haldane grew up in the Essex County area, where many able-bodied men worked in the American Woolen Company, his father being one of their employees. By 1935, his family had moved to Methuen, Massachusetts. He attended Methuen High School 
and graduated in 1935 as a baseball catcher and football star. During his time there, he also played the saxophone in the orchestra. After high school, he was captain of the football team at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Cumberland County, Maine, 
and coached football there after graduating from the college in 1941. However, that gig only lasted for two weeks before being called up by the U.S Marine Corps. 
By 1942, Haldane graduated from the Marine Corps Reserve Officers’ Training School in Quantico, 
Virginia. He was assigned to Company “K,” 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, under command of Major General Alexander Vandegrift . 
Andrew 
received the Silver Star 
for his actions during the Battle of Cape Gloucester. The Battle of Cape Gloucester was fought in the Pacific theater of World War II between Japanese and Allied forces on the island of New Britain, Territory of New Guinea, between 26-12-1943 and 16-01-1944. Codenamed Operation Backhander, 
Andrew fearlessly led and directed his troops in hand-to-hand combat against Japanese forces near Aogiri Ridge. The next morning before sunrise, he commanded his men to hold the line against five Japanese counterattacks, helping secure the beachhead line of the airdrome.
Death and burial ground of Haldane, Andrew Allison “Ack Ack”.
At the time of Captain Haldane’s death, the bulk of Company K was operating with its parent battalion on Hill 140 within the Umurbrogol Pocket. On 12-10-1944 in an attempt to orient himself to the strange terrain his company was occupying, Haldane was peeking over a ridge and was shot, age 27, by a Japanese sniper and was killed instantly. First Lieutenant Thomas J. “Stumpie” Stanley 
succeeded him as commander of K/3/5. Stanley led Company K through the remainder of the Peleliu campaign and on to Okinawa the following spring. In mid-May 1945, he collapsed in the command post after contracting malaria, after which he was evacuated from the battlefield. After the war: He survived his illness and the war, eventually retiring as a retired officer of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, In mid-May 1945, he collapsed in the command post after contracting malaria, after which he was evacuated from the battlefield. After the war: He survived his illness and the war, eventually retiring as a retired officer of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve.
Haldane, Andrew Allison “Ack Ack” is buried at the large Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington, Virginia, Section 12 Site 5367.
At the American military cemetery Arlington National Cemetery, more than 400,000 people are buried. In addition to American soldiers and veterans from nearly all American wars, you will also find partners, survivors, and famous Americans (such as President John F. Kennedy) 
there. New burials: Daily, there are still about 25 to 30 burials and memorial services taking place.
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