Justin Caleb Walsh
Son of Roderick Butler and Vada Ethel Shoun Walsh
Taken POW 6 May 1942
Latest report date – 10 Aug 1945
Camp Nagoya, Main Camp Nagoya Japan, 35-137
The Johnson County News, October 11, 1945
Justin C. Walsh, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rod Walsh, Rte. 3, who has been a prisoner of war since the fall of Corregidor, died August 9, in Tokyo, his parents were recently notified. He was with Gen. Wainwright’s army in the Philippines and was a survivor of the “Death March” of Bataan. The last word the parents had from him was in April of this year, dated some time in 1944.
- Rank: Corporal
- Date of birth: 3 September 1918
- Date of death: 10 August 1945
- County: Johnson
- Hometown: Mountain City
- Service Branch: Marine Corps
- Division/Assignment: 4th Marine Regiment
- Theater: Pacific
- Conflict: World War II
- Burial/Memorial Location: Shoun-McEwen Cemetery, Butler, Johnson County, TN
- Location In Memorial: Pillar VIII, Top Panel
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