Parents: Gerrit & Catherine Sterken

Siblings: 2 brothers, 1 sister

Hometown: Avalon, Wisconsin

Enlisted: Wisconsin National Guard

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 25 November 1940 - Janesville, Wisconisn

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

    Duties:

        - mechanic

Overseas Duty: 

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements: 

    - Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War: 

    - 9 April 1942

POW Camps: 

    Philippine Islands: 

        - Camp O'Donnell,

        - Cabanatuan

Died:

    - Friday, 24 July 1942 -dysentery & malaria

        - Approximate time of death - 11:30 PM

Memorial:

    - Tablets of the Missing - American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands