Wife: Ruth

Nickname: Bud

Enlisted: Kentucky National Guard

Inducted: U. S. Army - 25 November 1940

Training: 

    Fort Knox, Kentucky

    Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty: 

    Philippine Islands

Engagements: 

    Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War: 

    9 April 1942

        - Death March

POW Camps: 

    Philippine Islands:

        Camp O'Donnell

Died: 19 May 1942 - scurvy 

    - Ben was so sick that he couldn't relieve himself

    - his lips were soars 

        - Jack Field would wet his mouth to get it open and feed him

            - Bud stopped eating - died because he wanted to die

Buried: American Military Cemetery - Manila