THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS, ABILENE, TEXAS, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 16, 1945, PAGE FIVE
PUTNAM FATHER GETS DETAILS OF SON'S DEATH IN NIP PRISON
James A. Brandon, of Putnam has been notified by the adjutant general that his son, Pt. James W. Brandon, died in O'Donnell prison camp in the Philippines May 30, 1942 instead of May 8, 1942 as previously reported.
Private Brandon, who lacked a month of being 20 years old, was captured on Corregidor only about a month before his death which was caused by dysentery.
When he joined the army almost three years before Pearl Harbor, young Brandon resided with his father and brother in Abilene and he enlisted here. The boys' mother died when they were small and their father reared them alone. A cattle man, he and the boys "batched" together a lot and were constant companions.
James W. Brandon's brother is in the Navy, stationed at Galveston.
The letter just received by Mr. Brandon from the acting adjutant general read as follows: "I am writing you relative to my previous letter in which you were regretfully informed that a Finding of Death had been made in the case of your son, Pvt. James W. Brandon, infantry, and that the presumptive date of his death had been established as May 8, 1942.
"An official report has been received that he died on May 30, 1942 in Camp O'Donnell, Japanese prisoner of war camp in the Philippine islands as a result of dysentery. The report states that he was a member of the Quartermaster corps at the time of his death."
Information from www.wwiimemorial.com/registry:
James W. Brandon
ID: 06296805
Entered the Service From: Taylor County, Texas
Rank: Private
Service: U.S. Army, 31st Infantry Regiment
Died: Saturday, May 30, 1942
Buried at: Manila American Cemetery
Location: Fort Bonifacio, Manila, Philippines
Plot: N Row: 6 Grave: 14
Submitted by
Eric Ackerman
PUTNAM FATHER GETS DETAILS OF SON'S DEATH IN NIP PRISON
James A. Brandon, of Putnam has been notified by the adjutant general that his son, Pt. James W. Brandon, died in O'Donnell prison camp in the Philippines May 30, 1942 instead of May 8, 1942 as previously reported.
Private Brandon, who lacked a month of being 20 years old, was captured on Corregidor only about a month before his death which was caused by dysentery.
When he joined the army almost three years before Pearl Harbor, young Brandon resided with his father and brother in Abilene and he enlisted here. The boys' mother died when they were small and their father reared them alone. A cattle man, he and the boys "batched" together a lot and were constant companions.
James W. Brandon's brother is in the Navy, stationed at Galveston.
The letter just received by Mr. Brandon from the acting adjutant general read as follows: "I am writing you relative to my previous letter in which you were regretfully informed that a Finding of Death had been made in the case of your son, Pvt. James W. Brandon, infantry, and that the presumptive date of his death had been established as May 8, 1942.
"An official report has been received that he died on May 30, 1942 in Camp O'Donnell, Japanese prisoner of war camp in the Philippine islands as a result of dysentery. The report states that he was a member of the Quartermaster corps at the time of his death."
Information from www.wwiimemorial.com/registry:
James W. Brandon
ID: 06296805
Entered the Service From: Taylor County, Texas
Rank: Private
Service: U.S. Army, 31st Infantry Regiment
Died: Saturday, May 30, 1942
Buried at: Manila American Cemetery
Location: Fort Bonifacio, Manila, Philippines
Plot: N Row: 6 Grave: 14
Submitted by
Eric Ackerman
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS, ABILENE, TEXAS, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 16, 1945, PAGE FIVE
PUTNAM FATHER GETS DETAILS OF SON'S DEATH IN NIP PRISON
James A. Brandon, of Putnam has been notified by the adjutant general that his son, Pt. James W. Brandon, died in O'Donnell prison camp in the Philippines May 30, 1942 instead of May 8, 1942 as previously reported.
Private Brandon, who lacked a month of being 20 years old, was captured on Corregidor only about a month before his death which was caused by dysentery.
When he joined the army almost three years before Pearl Harbor, young Brandon resided with his father and brother in Abilene and he enlisted here. The boys' mother died when they were small and their father reared them alone. A cattle man, he and the boys "batched" together a lot and were constant companions.
James W. Brandon's brother is in the Navy, stationed at Galveston.
The letter just received by Mr. Brandon from the acting adjutant general read as follows: "I am writing you relative to my previous letter in which you were regretfully informed that a Finding of Death had been made in the case of your son, Pvt. James W. Brandon, infantry, and that the presumptive date of his death had been established as May 8, 1942.
"An official report has been received that he died on May 30, 1942 in Camp O'Donnell, Japanese prisoner of war camp in the Philippine islands as a result of dysentery. The report states that he was a member of the Quartermaster corps at the time of his death."
Information from www.wwiimemorial.com/registry:
James W. Brandon
ID: 06296805
Entered the Service From: Taylor County, Texas
Rank: Private
Service: U.S. Army, 31st Infantry Regiment
Died: Saturday, May 30, 1942
Buried at: Manila American Cemetery
Location: Fort Bonifacio, Manila, Philippines
Plot: N Row: 6 Grave: 14
Submitted by
Eric Ackerman
PUTNAM FATHER GETS DETAILS OF SON'S DEATH IN NIP PRISON
James A. Brandon, of Putnam has been notified by the adjutant general that his son, Pt. James W. Brandon, died in O'Donnell prison camp in the Philippines May 30, 1942 instead of May 8, 1942 as previously reported.
Private Brandon, who lacked a month of being 20 years old, was captured on Corregidor only about a month before his death which was caused by dysentery.
When he joined the army almost three years before Pearl Harbor, young Brandon resided with his father and brother in Abilene and he enlisted here. The boys' mother died when they were small and their father reared them alone. A cattle man, he and the boys "batched" together a lot and were constant companions.
James W. Brandon's brother is in the Navy, stationed at Galveston.
The letter just received by Mr. Brandon from the acting adjutant general read as follows: "I am writing you relative to my previous letter in which you were regretfully informed that a Finding of Death had been made in the case of your son, Pvt. James W. Brandon, infantry, and that the presumptive date of his death had been established as May 8, 1942.
"An official report has been received that he died on May 30, 1942 in Camp O'Donnell, Japanese prisoner of war camp in the Philippine islands as a result of dysentery. The report states that he was a member of the Quartermaster corps at the time of his death."
Information from www.wwiimemorial.com/registry:
James W. Brandon
ID: 06296805
Entered the Service From: Taylor County, Texas
Rank: Private
Service: U.S. Army, 31st Infantry Regiment
Died: Saturday, May 30, 1942
Buried at: Manila American Cemetery
Location: Fort Bonifacio, Manila, Philippines
Plot: N Row: 6 Grave: 14
Submitted by
Eric Ackerman
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