Service #- 20842493
Rank- Private United States Army
Pvt, Eugene Burruss, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Burruss of Lordsburg N.M. has been listed as killed in action, according to word received by his parents from the War Department.
Private Burruss was on a POW Ship which left Manilla Oct. 11 with 1775 prisoners. The ship was sunk by submarine action Oct 24 in the South China Sea.
In 1935 he was graduated from Santa Rosa High School and the following year attended business college in Lubbock. The family later moved to Lordsburg where he was a clerk in the post office up to the time of his enlistment.
A nephew, William Leon Bruce, who was with Private Burruss at the fall of Corregidor, is still a prisoner of the Japanese in Osaka.
Rank- Private United States Army
Pvt, Eugene Burruss, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Burruss of Lordsburg N.M. has been listed as killed in action, according to word received by his parents from the War Department.
Private Burruss was on a POW Ship which left Manilla Oct. 11 with 1775 prisoners. The ship was sunk by submarine action Oct 24 in the South China Sea.
In 1935 he was graduated from Santa Rosa High School and the following year attended business college in Lubbock. The family later moved to Lordsburg where he was a clerk in the post office up to the time of his enlistment.
A nephew, William Leon Bruce, who was with Private Burruss at the fall of Corregidor, is still a prisoner of the Japanese in Osaka.
Service #- 20842493
Rank- Private United States Army
Pvt, Eugene Burruss, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Burruss of Lordsburg N.M. has been listed as killed in action, according to word received by his parents from the War Department.
Private Burruss was on a POW Ship which left Manilla Oct. 11 with 1775 prisoners. The ship was sunk by submarine action Oct 24 in the South China Sea.
In 1935 he was graduated from Santa Rosa High School and the following year attended business college in Lubbock. The family later moved to Lordsburg where he was a clerk in the post office up to the time of his enlistment.
A nephew, William Leon Bruce, who was with Private Burruss at the fall of Corregidor, is still a prisoner of the Japanese in Osaka.
Rank- Private United States Army
Pvt, Eugene Burruss, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Burruss of Lordsburg N.M. has been listed as killed in action, according to word received by his parents from the War Department.
Private Burruss was on a POW Ship which left Manilla Oct. 11 with 1775 prisoners. The ship was sunk by submarine action Oct 24 in the South China Sea.
In 1935 he was graduated from Santa Rosa High School and the following year attended business college in Lubbock. The family later moved to Lordsburg where he was a clerk in the post office up to the time of his enlistment.
A nephew, William Leon Bruce, who was with Private Burruss at the fall of Corregidor, is still a prisoner of the Japanese in Osaka.
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Entered the service from New Mexico.
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