Rank and Name, Merchant Seaman Cyril Hepley Ellis.

Unit/Placed in, S.S. Harvey C. Miller (Liberty Ship), US Merchant Marine.

Cyril is born approx. 1913 in Costa Rica.

Mother, Lilian R. White.

Cyril enlisted the service in Costa Rica with service number # Z-136908.

Cyril died of drowning on July 27, 1945, he is honored with a Combat Action Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Distinguished Unit Citation, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

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

Walls of the missing.

Thanks to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Liberty_ships_(G%E2%80%93Je) Jean Louis Vijgen, ABMC, https://abmc.gov

P.O.W. info, Wes Injerd and Dwight Rider, http://www.mansell.com/pow-index.html  Air-Force, Rolland Swank NavyLog, http://navylog.navymemorial.org Familysearch.com, https://www.familysearch.org

Philippine Scouts Heritage Society,http://www.philippine-scouts.org/

Marines Info Geoffrey Roecker, https://missingmarines.com/   

Medals Info, http://www.honorstates.org    

Hendriks Webdesign, https://hendrikswebdesign.nl/

From the Merchant Marine Records,

Ellis    Cyril Hedly    Buried Manila NatCem       09/24/45    Unknown      Costa Rica     Unknown