Leonard Roscoe Crews

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Leonard Roscoe Crews Veteran

Birth
Illinois, USA
Death
4 Mar 1977 (aged 86)
Burlingame, San Mateo County, California, USA
Burial
San Bruno, San Mateo County, California, USA Add to Map
Plot
G, 2172-A
Memorial ID
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Col. Leonard Roscoe Crews, Cir. # 0-7357.
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He was Supply Officer Harbor Defense, Headquarters Battery. He survived the DEATH MARCH and a Japanese Prisoner of War in Manchuria.

Name Leonard R Crews
Race White
Residence Place Indiana, USA
Report Date 7 May 1942
Latest Report Date 21 Sep 1945
Grade Colonel
Arm or Service Coast Artillery Corps
Arm or Service Code Coast Artillery Corps Or Amp: Army Mine Planter Service
Area Served Southwest Pacific Theatre: Philippine Islands
Detaining Country Japan
Camp Hoten POW Camp (Mukden) Manchuria 42-123
Status Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated
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According to the Genealogy Survey of the Crews Family, by Mary Ellen Crews Brach, as corrected by her sister, Evelyn Donoho, 1994

"In the spring of 1946, Colonel Leonard Crews, who had been a prisoner of war, taken off Corregidor with Lt. General Wainwright, came back home and expressed his desire to have a Crews Reunion. He and his wife Marjorie worked hard - personal visits, letters, and on Sunday, June 9, 1946, 82 descendants gathered at the old homestead of David Crews northwest of Mt. Erie."
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Col. Leonard Roscoe Crews, Cir. # 0-7357.
.
He was Supply Officer Harbor Defense, Headquarters Battery. He survived the DEATH MARCH and a Japanese Prisoner of War in Manchuria.

Name Leonard R Crews
Race White
Residence Place Indiana, USA
Report Date 7 May 1942
Latest Report Date 21 Sep 1945
Grade Colonel
Arm or Service Coast Artillery Corps
Arm or Service Code Coast Artillery Corps Or Amp: Army Mine Planter Service
Area Served Southwest Pacific Theatre: Philippine Islands
Detaining Country Japan
Camp Hoten POW Camp (Mukden) Manchuria 42-123
Status Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated
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According to the Genealogy Survey of the Crews Family, by Mary Ellen Crews Brach, as corrected by her sister, Evelyn Donoho, 1994

"In the spring of 1946, Colonel Leonard Crews, who had been a prisoner of war, taken off Corregidor with Lt. General Wainwright, came back home and expressed his desire to have a Crews Reunion. He and his wife Marjorie worked hard - personal visits, letters, and on Sunday, June 9, 1946, 82 descendants gathered at the old homestead of David Crews northwest of Mt. Erie."
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