Rank and Name, Corporal Ruperto Alejandro.

Unit/Placed in,45th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Scouts.

POW

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

The 45^th Infantry Regiment resorted to fighting together among American and Filipino forces when compelled to surrender on 9 Apr 1942.

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

Ruperto is born in 1905 in the Philippines.

Parents and Sibling, No Record Available.

Ruperto enlisted the service in the Philippines with service number # 67377541.

Ruperto died as a POW in Camp O, Donnell on, May 17, 1942, he is honored with a POW Medal, Bronze Star Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

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

Walls 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