Born: 1918 - Massachusetts

Family: One of seven children

Hometown: 

    -Boston

     Port Clinton - age of 13 -resided with aunt & uncle

Education: Port Clinton High School - 1938

National Guard: 1938

Inducted: U. S. Army - 25 November 1940

Training: 

    Fort Knox, Kentucky

    Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty: 

    Philippine Islands

Engagements: 

    Battle of Bataan

        - Wounded - 2 February 1942

             -Purple Heart

Prisoner of War: 

    9 April 1942

        - Death March

            - Mariveles - POWs start march at southern tip of Bataan
            - POWs ran past Japanesee artillery firing at Corregidor
                - Americans on Corregidor returned fire
            - San Fernando - POWs put into small wooden boxcars
                - each boxcar could hold eight horses or forty men
                - 100 POWs packed into each car
                - POWs who died remained standing
            - Capas - dead fell to floor as living left boxcars
            - POWs walked last ten miles to Camp O'Donnell

            - reported missing during march

            - reported to be at San Fernando - 1 June 1942

POW Camps: 

    Philippine Islands: 

        - Camp O'Donnell

            - unfinished Filipino training base
            - Japanese put camp into use as POW Camp
            - only one water spiget for entire camp
            - as many as 50 POWs died each day
            - Japanese opened new POW camp to lower death rate 

            - POWs went out on work details to get out of camp 

        - Ft. Stotsenburg

Died: 14 June 1942 - dysentery

Memorial: Tablets of the Missing - Manila