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Alerta, Brigado R.

Rank and Name,Private Brigido R. Alerta.

Unit/Placed in,57th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Scouts.

POW

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

The 57th Infantry Regiment resorted to fighting together among American and Filipino forces when compelled to surrender on 9 Apr 1942.

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

 

Brigido is born in 1919 in the Philippines.

 

Parents and Sibling, No Record Available.

 

Brigido enlisted the service in the Philippines with service number # 10303727.

 

Brigido died as a POW on July 3, 1942, he is honored with a POW Medal, Bronze Star Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

 

Brigido 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

 

Pow Camp (no record)
Bataan Death March
His rank Private