U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #19054717
Enlistment Date: 05/19/1941
Philippine Engineer Depot
Leslie Stickelmeyer is listed as Died Non-Battle in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Stutsman County, North Dakota.
Name and Address of Next of Kin:
Mr. Christ Stickelmeyer (Father)
Esmond, North Dakota
***I would like to thank Mel Bouten Find A Grave ID 50582478 for adding his picture of Leslie to this memorial and linking family members to it***
The photo of the headstone is actually at Memorial ID 56791289 Manila American Cemetery and Memorial which is where he is laid to rest***
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The Cabanatuan Memorial is located 85 miles north of Manila, within the city of Cabanatuan, Luzon, and Republic of the Philippines. It marks the site of the Japanese Cabanatuan Prisoner of War Camp where approximately 75,000 American and Philippine servicemen and civilians were held captive from 1942 to 1945, after the fall of the Philippine Island during World War II.
The memorial consists of a 90-foot concrete base in the center of which rests a marble altar. It is surrounded on three sides by a fence of steel rods and on the fourth by a
Wall of Honor upon which are inscribed the names of the approximately 3,000 Americans who lost their lives while being held captive. Co-located on the site are the West Point Monument, which pays homage to the 170 American and 6 Filipino graduates of the U.S. Military Academy who lost their lives during the defense of the Philippines or while prisoner of war at Cabanatuan and the Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor (a Filipino veterans organization) memorial which salutes their American fallen comrades.
U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #19054717
Enlistment Date: 05/19/1941
Philippine Engineer Depot
Leslie Stickelmeyer is listed as Died Non-Battle in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Stutsman County, North Dakota.
Name and Address of Next of Kin:
Mr. Christ Stickelmeyer (Father)
Esmond, North Dakota
***I would like to thank Mel Bouten Find A Grave ID 50582478 for adding his picture of Leslie to this memorial and linking family members to it***
The photo of the headstone is actually at Memorial ID 56791289 Manila American Cemetery and Memorial which is where he is laid to rest***
********************************************************
The Cabanatuan Memorial is located 85 miles north of Manila, within the city of Cabanatuan, Luzon, and Republic of the Philippines. It marks the site of the Japanese Cabanatuan Prisoner of War Camp where approximately 75,000 American and Philippine servicemen and civilians were held captive from 1942 to 1945, after the fall of the Philippine Island during World War II.
The memorial consists of a 90-foot concrete base in the center of which rests a marble altar. It is surrounded on three sides by a fence of steel rods and on the fourth by a
Wall of Honor upon which are inscribed the names of the approximately 3,000 Americans who lost their lives while being held captive. Co-located on the site are the West Point Monument, which pays homage to the 170 American and 6 Filipino graduates of the U.S. Military Academy who lost their lives during the defense of the Philippines or while prisoner of war at Cabanatuan and the Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor (a Filipino veterans organization) memorial which salutes their American fallen comrades.
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