Rank and Name,Corporal Cornelio Alconis.

Unit/Placed in,92nd Coast Artillery Regiment, Philippine Scouts.

POW

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

The 92^nd Coast Artillery resorted to fighting together among American and Filipino forces when compelled to surrender on 9 Apr 1942.

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

Cornelio is born in 1912 in the Philippines.

Parents and Sibling, No Record Available.

Cornelio enlisted the service in the Philippines with service number # 6865581.

Cornelio died as a POW on May 31, 1942, he is honored with a POW Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

Cornelio 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