William Burley Alvis (1912 - 1943)

Born 25 Feb 1912 in Wise, Virginia, United States

Ancestors

Died 4 Feb 1943 at age 30 in Shenyang, Liaoning, China

Biography

Died as a prisoner of war

Virginia, U.S., Birth Records, 1912-2015, Delayed Birth Records, 1721-1911

Name: William Burley Alvis

Gender: Male

Birth Date: 25 Feb 1912

Birth Place: Wise, Virginia, USA

Certificate Number: 1912024430

Father: John W Alvis

Mother: Pearl M Phillips

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54485781/william-b.-alvis

Name: Sgt William B. Alvis

Gender: Male

Birth Date: 25 Feb 1912

Birth Place: Toms Creek, Wise County, Virginia, United States of America

Death Date: 4 Feb 1943

Death Place: China

Cemetery: Holston View Cemetery

Burial or Cremation Place: Weber City, Scott County, Virginia, United States of America

Has Bio?: Y

Father: John W Alvis

Mother: Martha Pearl Alvis

William joined the US Army Air Corps at Big Stone Gap, Virginia and was taken as a prisoner of war when the Philippines, where William was serving as a member of Headquarters, 24th Pursuit Group, fell to the Japanese during WWII. He left the Philippines in 1942, along with hundreds of other Allied prisoners of war, on the Japanese "hell ship" Tottori Maru, bound for Pusan, Korea. After he arrived at Pusan, he was taken to Camp Hoten in Mukden, Manchuria (present-day Shenyang, China) where he died of diarrhea and beri-beri. Military Serial Number 680968.

Sources

• Virginia, U.S., Birth Records, 1912-2015, Delayed Birth Records, 1721-1911

Acknowledgments

• This person was created through the import of Alvis families 9a.ged on 18 January 2011.