Gerald Corbett Gaines

age 18

 

The Gaines Boys

l to r: Gerald, Marvin & Earl

ca 1941

Telegram reference the shipping of Gerald Gaines'

body to Electra, Texas for reburial in 1949

Gerald Corbett Gaines

Gaines Family Plot

Electra, Texas Cemetery (old side)

 

THE CABANATUAN ROSTER

 

By the time liberation came, more than a thousand members of the 31st Infantry

Regiment had perished. Among the dead were most of the regiment’s officers and senior

NCOs. While at Cabanatuan POW Camp, Lieutenant Colonel Jasper Brady and Major

Marshall Hurt covertly compiled a roster of those who had served with the regiment

during the war.

It covers the period December 8, 1941 through October 10, 1944 , when

Brady and Hurt were taken from Cabanatuan to be transported to Japan . It lists names,

ranks , service numbers, hometowns, combat wounds, decorations earned, next of kin, and

pending awards and disciplinary action. For those who died in combat or captivity before

Brady and Hurt were taken to their deaths aboard the Arisan Maru , the circumstance and

place of burial is annotated.

Given the conditions under which the roster was prepared, it

is remarkably legible and thorough. There are, however, some inevitable gaps, such as

the hometowns or next of kin of men who died before the roster was begun. Because the

roster was compiled from the memories of leaders incarcerated at Cabanatuan , some

spellings of names may also be inaccurate. The night before Brady and Hurt were to leave

Cabanatuan , they hid the roster

 

 

Antitank Company

(names of 62 who died in captivity)

 

CPT Robert A Barker

1LT Harold F Monson

SSG Cameron C Taylor

SGT Louis F Berendt

SGT Walter Kowalczyk

SGT James J Murphy

SGT Joseph R Vaughn

SGT Claude E Wilson

CPL Leo J Barlosky

CPL George L McCafferty

CPL Robert Spalek

CPL Paul F Welch

PFC Edward C Ambrose

PFC J S Anderson

PFC Thomas T Bailey

PFC Eugene E Bales

PFC David E Cross, Jr

PFC Clifford D Hendon

PFC Walter W Kean

PFC Jessie J Nelson

PFC Warren W Powless , Jr

PFC William W Utley

PFC Homer L Wood

PVT Don L Abernathy

PVT Cleveland Armond

PVT Cecil W Bradshaw

PVT C L Clark

PVT Charles B Clayton

PVT Patrick F Corcoran

PVT Elmo J Daigle

PVT Albert F D’Auria

PVT Bernard M Doxtator

PVT Paul L Foy

PVT Gerald C Gaines

PVT Siebelt R Goldenstein

PVT Gerald W Haman

PVT James E Hayward

PVT Frank S Heater

PVT Owen Hicks

PVT Albert C Kalen

PVT Raymond E Larson

PVT Fred A Luck

PVT Condia Lynch

PVT Joseph B Martineau

PVT Fiorino F Mazzucca

PVT Amos R McAfee

PVT Rovert L McIntyre

PVT James E Mines

PVT Orvel K Morris

PVT Floyd Moyer, Jr

PVT John D Nabb

PVT Glenwood D Porter

PVT Fred J Reed

PVT Gerald D Reeves

PVT Edmund F Sadler

PVT Ari Self

PVT Clarence Smith, Jr

PVT Marion R Thompson

PVT Gerald K Titman

PVT Clyde White, Jr

PVT Jerry D Williams

PVT Charles C Zenchenko