Rank and Name, Corpral Royal Eugene Agens.

Unit/Placed in, 515^th Coast Artillery Regiment, C-Battery.

POW

The Imperial Japanese began their Invasion in the Philippines on 8 Dec 1941.

The 2th Generals Personal resorted to fighting together among American and Filipino forces when compelled to surrender on 9 Apr 1942.

Corporal Agens became a POW and was imprisoned at Pow Camp no record, he survived the Bataan Death March, but died shortly after it.

Royal was born on, Nov. 4, 1916 in Bessie, Oklahoma.

Father, Charles E. Agens.

Mother, Donia M. Agens.

Sisters, Phoebe S. Jewell S. Inez J. and Lottie B. Agens .

Brothers, William E. and Ralph C. Agens.

Royal enlisted the Army in Santa Fe, New Mexico on Jan. 6, 1941 with service-number # 20843130.

Royal died as a POW on June 2, 1942, he is honored with a  POW Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

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

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