Parents: Gladys Chilton-Foster & Arthur Foster

    - father died in the late 1920s 

Siblings: 1 brother, 2 sisters

Home: Dixville Road, Rose Hill, 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

        - 8 December 1941 - 6 January 1942 

    - Battle of Bataan

        - 7 January 1942 - 9 April 1942 

Prisoner of War: 9 April 1941

    - Death March

            - Mariveles - POWs started march at southern tip of

              Bataan
            - POWs ran past Japanese 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 spigot for entire camp
            - as many as 50 POWs died each day
            - Japanese opened new POW camp to lower death rate 

        - Cabanatuan #1

Died: 1 June 1942 - dysentery

Buried:

    - American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands

        - Plot:  D   Row:  1   Grave:  257