Hometown: Rosehill, Kentucky

Enlisted:

    - 20 May 1940 - Kentucky National Guard

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 25 November 1940 - Harrodsburg, Kentucky

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

POW Camps: 

    - Philippine Islands: 

        - Camp O'Donnell

        - Cabanatuan #1

Died: 1 June 1942 - dysentery

Buried: American Military Cemetery - Manila