Crisp-Turner County GaArchives Military Records.....HENDRY, LT JAMES L. May 21, 1943
WWII U.S. ARMY
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DEATH
 THE DEATH OF LT. JAMES L. HENDTY, CON OF CHIEF AND MRS F.M. HENDRY OF ASHBURN,
WHICH OCCURED ON MAY 21N A JAP PRISON, WAS DUE TO A MALARIAL CONDITION, ACCORDING TO
THE WAR DEPT. BY THE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS. AN EFFORT TO SECURE MORE MINUTE
DETAILS OF THE MATYR'S DEATH IS BEING MADE BY THE LEE COUNTY CHAPTER, AMERICAN RED
CROSS, IT WAS STATED HERE TODAY.
 LT HANDRY,27, WJO HAS BEEN HELD PRISONER OF WAR BY THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT SINCE
THE SURRENDER OF BATAAN,PHILIPINE ISLANDS DIED SOMEWHERE IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC.
 YOUNG HENDRY, A GRADUATE OF ASHBURN AND WELL AND FAVORABLY KNOWN HERE, WHERE HIS
FATHER IS CO-  CHIEF OFHE POLICE DEPARTMENT, HAS BEEN STATIONED IN THE PHILIPPINES
SINCE JULY, 1941, ABOUT 50 MILES FROM MANILA. HE WAS IN THE THICKEST OF THE FIGHTING
ON BATAAN PENISULA AND WAS WOUNDED, ACCORDING TO A LETER RECEIVED BY CHIEF HENDRY IN
FEB. 1942. HE HAD BEEN A PRISONER OF WAR SINCE APRIL 9,1942, BUT NO INFORMATION WAS
EVER GIVEN AS TO WHERE HE WAS BEING HELD.
 A LETTER, WRITTEN BY MAJOR GENERAL J.A. ULIO, WASHINGTON, AND RECEIVED A FEW DAYS
AGO BY THE FATHER OF THE YOUNG OFFICER, EXPRESSED REGRETS THAT MORE INFORMATION WAS
NOT AVAILABLE. THE LETTER IN FULL FOLLOWS;
 '' IT IS DEEPLY REGRETTED THAT IT WAS NECESSARY TO NOTIFY YOU BY  TELEGRAM ON MAY
26,1943, OF THE DEATH OF YOUR SON,  1ST LT. JAMES L. HENDRY, 0350-035, FIELD
ARTILLERY. THE CASUALITY REPORT IN HIS CASE SHOWS HE DIED AT A PRISONER OF WAR CAMP,
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, AS A RESULT OF MALARIA, BUT FAILS TO GIVE THE EXACT DATE OF HIS
DEATH. FROM THE MEAGER INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM THE JAPANNESE GOVERNMENT, THROUGH
THE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS, THE WAR DEPT. REGARDS HIM AS BEING DEAD FROM THE DATE
OF DISPATCH OF THE REPORTING MESSAGE. THE REPORTING MESSAGE WAS DATED MAY 21,1943,
AND THERE FORE,THIS DATE HAS BEEN ENTRED ON THE RECORDS OF THE WAR DEPT.AS THE DATE
OF HIS DEATH
 '' MAY THE THOUGHT THAT HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY AS UNSELFISHLY AND
HERORICALLY AS IF HE HAD DIED ON THE FIELD OF BATLE, BE A SOURCE OF SUSTAINING
COMFORT TO YOU.
 ''I EXTEND MY DEEPEST SYMPATHY IN YOUR GREAT LOSS.'' 

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