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Post by dmether on Aug 15, 2014 18:52:50 GMT 8
Another non-WWII item, but again I think it is interesting. One of the many interesting people buried on Clark is Edward Dumaresq who enlisted in the Confederate Army on 7 September 1861 as a Private and ended the war as a 1st Sergeant. In 1864 he was recommended for the rank of Lieutenant for "distinguished valor" at Sharpsburg. He also engaged in hand-to-hand combat, once wrenching a pistol out of the hand of a Union soldier, forcing his surrender. He eventually made his way to the Philippines where he died in 1901 and is buried in the Clark Air Base Cemetery.
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Post by dmether on Aug 16, 2014 19:50:26 GMT 8
Frank Betron didn’t have a long military career but he went a lot of places: Service Dates: 1895 – 1902. Campaigns: Indian War – Spanish American War (Cuba) – Philippine American War (advance to San Fernando) – Boxer Rebellion – Philippine American War (Samar). Sergeant Frank Betron was born at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1874. He enlisted in the U.S. Army on July 26, 1895 and served in “H” Troop, 2ndSquadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment stationed at Fort Apache, Arizona. They patrolled the Mexican border preventing hostile forces reentering Mexico after raiding settlements. In the Philippines, Betron went with Company “C” to Balangiga, Samar. A month after arriving 400 bolomen from General Lukban’s Filipino Guerrilla Army attacked the 74 men of Company “C” while they were eating their breakfast. In a few minutes, three officers and 29 men had been hacked to death except four isolated pockets of soldiers who managed to regain their weapons and fight back. Sergeant Betron led one of these groups and fought hand-to-hand with several of the attackers, regained his weapon and started to counter attack. Eight rifles were secured from Sergeant Betron’s squad barracks. After about fifteen minutes half of the enemy force had been killed or wounded. Sergeant Betron was the senior non-commissioned officer standing after all the officers and senior NCOs had been killed. The group gathered the wounded, secured the flag and disabled as many Krag rifles as they could before moving to the riverbank. Sergeant Betron then organized the survivors into five native dugout outrigger canoes and despite his wounds kept the men together in two of the largest until they reached the next nearest outpost at Basay, Samar. In 1932 Sergeant Betron was nominated for the Medal of Honor for his actions during the massacre, he was included in a bill to the U.S.Senate. Unfortunately, the bill was not passed. It's a shame his headstone says "Civilian Employee" and not US Soldier. 1928 picture of the survivors of the Balangiga Massacre, L to R: John Uhtop, Charles Marak, Elbert DeGraffenreid, and Ernest Ralston, from David Demether.
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Post by Karl Welteke on Aug 13, 2017 20:18:36 GMT 8
This thread has been repaired! Za041. This is the way the thread looked, This is the way this thread from dmether with all his 6 pictures looked, from about June to this date in 2017. The reason is that the photo sharing company Photobucket changed their terms and blocked most images like this image above. The 6 previous images have been reposted at another server and are visible again as of this date. This thread has been repaired! This is the thread URL; corregidor.proboards.com/thread/1688/clark-cemetery
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Post by chadhill on Aug 13, 2017 21:10:03 GMT 8
Nice job, Karl!
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Post by Karl Welteke on Aug 14, 2017 20:57:58 GMT 8
Clark Veteran Cemetery Upgrade 11th Aug. 2017.The Clark Veteran Cemetery is being upgraded by the American Battle Monument Commission. On the 11th Aug. 2017 a friend from the USA and I visited the Clark Veteran Cemetery and were surprised by the intensive work that is being done to renovate, upgrade the cemetery. All the headstone are being raised because they were partially buried from the ash of the Mt. Pinatubo eruption. I let these 23 images in this album tell the story. www.flickr.com/photos/44567569@N00/albums/72157684992556714In this forum presentation I present 5 sample images, they are smaller: Za042 new main gate Clark Veteran Cemetery with monument. -008 this view of the new main gate Clark Veteran Cemetery and shows the new location of the old monument. Za043 Clark Veteran Cemetery is rectangle shaped -012 the Clark Veteran Cemetery is rectangle shaped on an east-west axis, we are looking east, and perhaps this pipe or hose will be part of a sprinkler system. Za044 raising the head stones -016 a view of the process, raising the head stones and put them in the new and final position at the Clark Veteran Cemetery. Za045 Clark Veteran Cemetery, setting head stones. -018 is a view of the process setting the grave stones in a new and higher position at the Clark Veteran Cemetery. Za046 old main gate at Clark Veteran Cemetery. -020 is a view of the old main gate at Clark Veteran Cemetery.
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Post by Karl Welteke on Aug 27, 2017 6:58:39 GMT 8
Clark Veterans Cemetery Correction In this forum I wrote that the grave stones were raised above the Mt. Pinatubo ash. The Superintended of the Clark Veterans Cemetery, Mr. Jeffrey Aarnio, sent me this email: Dear Mr. Welteke, Your email was forwarded to me while I was in the United States attending training. My name is Jeffrey Aarnio and I have been assigned to the Clark Veterans Cemetery as Superintendent since April 2017. Please allow me to make a correction about your forum posted recently that discusses ongoing renovation work by the American Battle Monuments Commission. As you state correctly the headstones were partially covered as a result of the volcanic eruption of Mt Pinatubo, the ABMC took on the task of eliminating the ash and other materials deposited on the cemetery in 1991. Knowing that this would be a significant undertaking, it was decided to take advantage of this work to install underground beams underneath the headstones to facilitate proper alignment of said headstones by inserting them into a special saddle along the concrete beams as was done in other ABMC overseas cemeteries. Looking at this operation it may indeed appear as if the headstones are being raised up, as you mention in your forum, but the headstones are actually being seated into the saddles at exactly the original height as they were before the volcanic eruption. The only difference being is that the ABMC has removed all the ash and other deposited material, allowing for the full exposure of the headstones. As we complete this part of the renovation, we also plan on replacing a good percentage of damaged headstones to properly honor our nation's veterans interred at Clark. Knowing that my father was at one time stationed at Clark Air Force Base during the Vietnam war and as a veteran myself, rest assured of the commitment by the ABMC to make Clark Veterans Cemetery the most fitting resting place for all eligible veterans. Respectfully, Jeffrey Aarnio Jeffrey Aarnio Superintendent Clark Veterans Cemetery Manila American Cemetery McKinley Road Fort Bonifacio Taguig City Philippines 1634 | T +(632) 8440212 Unit 8600 Box 1855 | DPO AP 96515-1855 | USA www.abmc.gov | Join us on Facebook
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Post by Karl Welteke on Jan 13, 2019 16:18:28 GMT 8
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