Parents: Raymond Fearson Gheen & Lillian M. Warne-Gheen

    - mother died in 1918

Siblings: 1 brother, 1 sister

Stepmother: Mary Gheen

Siblings: 3 half-sisters

Guardian: Eleanor Warne - Grandmother  

    - lived in Zanesville, Ohio with siblings

Home: Bellaire, Ohio

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - Fort Hayes - Columbus, Ohio

Training: 

   - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty: 

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements:

    - Battle of Luzon 

    - Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War: 

    - 9 April 1941

        -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

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

Died: 5 May 1942 - dysentery

    - other records indicate date of death as: 7 May 1942 

Buried:

    - American Military Cemetery - Manila

        - Plot: L  Row: 1   Grave:  87