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1SGT Alvin F Watson

Birth
Oklahoma, USA
Death
6 Jun 1942 (aged 31)
Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija Province, Central Luzon, Philippines
Monument
Manila, Capital District, National Capital Region, Philippines Add to Map
Plot
CENOTAPH to MEMORIAL ID 41568963 Belmont Memorial Park
Memorial ID
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Serial No. #20842742
Induction Date: 01/06/1941
Battery A, 200th Coast Artillery Regiment

NARA War Department records list this soldiers Home of Record as Bernalillo County, New Mexico.

Name and Address of Next of Kin:
Charlotte Watson
715 5th Street
Las Vegas, New Mexico

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The Cabanatuan Memorial is located 85 miles north of Manila, within the city of Cabanatuan, Luzon, and Republic of the Philippines. It marks the site of the Japanese Cabanatuan Prisoner of War Camp where approximately 75,000 American and Philippine servicemen and civilians were held captive from 1942 to 1945, after the fall of the Philippine Island during World War II.
The memorial consists of a 90-foot concrete base in the center of which rests a marble altar. It is surrounded on three sides by a fence of steel rods and on the fourth by a
Wall of Honor upon which are inscribed the names of the approximately 3,000 Americans who lost their lives while being held captive. Co-located on the site are the West Point Monument, which pays homage to the 170 American and 6 Filipino graduates of the U.S. Military Academy who lost their lives during the defense of the Philippines or while prisoner of war at Cabanatuan and the Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor (a Filipino veterans organization) memorial which salutes their American fallen comrades.
Serial No. #20842742
Induction Date: 01/06/1941
Battery A, 200th Coast Artillery Regiment

NARA War Department records list this soldiers Home of Record as Bernalillo County, New Mexico.

Name and Address of Next of Kin:
Charlotte Watson
715 5th Street
Las Vegas, New Mexico

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The Cabanatuan Memorial is located 85 miles north of Manila, within the city of Cabanatuan, Luzon, and Republic of the Philippines. It marks the site of the Japanese Cabanatuan Prisoner of War Camp where approximately 75,000 American and Philippine servicemen and civilians were held captive from 1942 to 1945, after the fall of the Philippine Island during World War II.
The memorial consists of a 90-foot concrete base in the center of which rests a marble altar. It is surrounded on three sides by a fence of steel rods and on the fourth by a
Wall of Honor upon which are inscribed the names of the approximately 3,000 Americans who lost their lives while being held captive. Co-located on the site are the West Point Monument, which pays homage to the 170 American and 6 Filipino graduates of the U.S. Military Academy who lost their lives during the defense of the Philippines or while prisoner of war at Cabanatuan and the Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor (a Filipino veterans organization) memorial which salutes their American fallen comrades.

Inscription

WATSON ALVIN F 1 SGT


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  • Created by: Eric Ackerman
  • Added: Dec 11, 2020
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/219628446/alvin_f-watson: accessed ), memorial page for 1SGT Alvin F Watson (12 May 1911–6 Jun 1942), Find a Grave Memorial ID 219628446, citing Cabanatuan Memorial, Manila, Capital District, National Capital Region, Philippines; Maintained by Eric Ackerman (contributor 48445240).