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PVT Walton Leroy Gilbert Jr

1913 – 7 Jul 1942

Birth	1913
Death	7 Jul 1942
Cemetery	Manila American Cemetery and Memorial Manila , Capital District , National Capital Region , Philippines
Added by	Family Searcher#1 on 19 Oct 2023
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56788312

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Actual final resting place lost to war and time.

Bio

Rush County, Kansas Newspaper in 1943. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Gilbert, of McCracken, were notified Tuesday, in a telegram from the War Department, that their son, Pvt. Walton Gilbert, had died from malnutrition in a prison camp, somewhere in the Philippines. They had heard nothing from him since 1942 when he was reported as being a prisoner of the Japanese. Pvt.Gilbert was taken prisoner of war after the fall of Corregidor and was interned in a Japanese prison camp. The telegram stated that he had died of starvation in 1943. Walton had attended school at McCracken and graduated from the McCracken high school in the class of 1934. ******************************************************** U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #20939265 Enlistment Date: 04/17/1941 at Fort Stevens, Oregon Entered the Service from: Oregon 34th Pursuit Squadron, 24th Pursuit Group Walton L. Gilbert is listed as Died Non-Battle in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Linn County, Oregon. Died Or Killed In Prisoner Of War Status. https://www.abmc.gov/decedent-search/gilbert%3Dwalton lists his DOD as July 7th, 1942.

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Family

Parents

• Leonard A "Len" Gilbert 1873–1964
• Flora B Higgins Gilbert 1885–1968

Siblings

• Clarence A Gilbert 1909–1926
• Harold Leonard "Hap" Gilbert 1911–1978

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