20 September 2000
    Request for Help

    My cousin, Henry Ashton is reported to have died during the Bataan Death March in 1942.   Is there any way I may obtain more information about him?

    Charles H. Ashton
    CAshton105@aol.com

      Father Bob Phillips went to:
      "The American Battle Monuments Commission" Web Site
      and did a quick search for Henry Ashton.


      Website Information:
      Henry Ashton,  1st Lieutenant,  U.S. Army,   Serial Number O-334549
      24th Field Artillery Regiment, Philippine Scouts.
      Entered the Service from Nevada;  died August 24, 1942
      Missing in Action or Buried at Sea
      "Tablets of the Missing" at the Manila American Cemetery, Manila, P.I.

        "We learn from this website that he was not in the Philippine Army, but in the Philippine Scouts (PS), which was a part of the U.S. Army; officers were Americans and enlisted men were indigenous men."