Rank and Name, Seaman First Class Enrique Abono.

Unit/Placed in on, POW Camp. No record Philippines.

Bataan Death March

(April 9, 1942)

Seaman First Class Enrique Abono became a POW(April 9, 1942) an walked (60 miles) the Bataan Death March (70.000 pow), Many walked this march and many died (aprox.600, lack of nutrition and water) to Prison Camps in the Philippines and he was send to Camp no record and, became part of a work detail .

Enrique is born in the Philippines in Iloilo, Western Visayas.

Parents and Sibling, No Record Available.

Enrique enlisted the U.S.Army in Philippines with service number # 4985282.

Enrique died in a POW Camp. no record on Aug. 10, 1942, Private First Class Enrique Abono is honored with a POW Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

Enrique is buried/mentioned at Manila American Cemetery and Memorial  Manila, Metro Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines.

Wall of the missing.

Thanks to Jean Louis Vijgen, ABMC,  https://abmc.gov Info P.O.W.

Wes Injerd, Dwight Rider: http://www.mansell.com/pow-index.html

NavyLog, http://navylog.navymemorial.org Philippine Scouts Heritage Society, Sean Conjenos, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/ Hendriks  https://hendrikswebdesign.nl/

Familysearch.com, https://www.familysearch.org Navy Marines Info Geoffrey Roecker, https://missingmarines.com/ Medals Info, http://www.honorstates.org