Anderson, James Curtis
Army Private 1st class

James Curtis Anderson, age 21, from Tyrone, Pennsylvania, Blair county.

Parents: Robert Anderson of Baltimore and Jessie E. Anderson

Service era: World War II
Schools: Tyrone public schools.
Military history: Private 1st class, Army. Enlisted in Feb. 1940. Attached to the battery headquarters of the coast artillery corps. Serving at Fort Mills, Corregidor, in the Philippines.

Date of death: Thursday, November 26, 1942
Death details: Died from beri beri disease while held in a Japanese Prison camp.
Cemetery: Buried in Hawaii, memorialized in Grandview, Tyrone

Source: Altoona Mirror, National Archives, grave marker