Robert E. Lund
Service #: 0-243640
Rank: Major, U.S. Army
Unit: 31st Infantry Regiment
Entered Service From: Washington
Date of Death: March/April 1942 Bataan Province, Central Luzon, Philippines
Status: Missing in Action
Awards: Bronze Star, Purple Heart
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Son of Charles Patrick Lund (1876-1960) and Anna Porter Ewart (1881-1933).
1910 United States Federal Census (20 April 1910): Spokane (Ward 5), Spokane County, Washington (sheet 9B, family 210, 1008 Nora Avenue) – Robert Lund (3 Washington).
1920 United States Federal Census (07 January 1920): Spokane (Ward 5), Spokane County, Washington (sheet 5B, family 111, 124 W-15th Av) – Robert E. Lund (12 Washington).
Robert E. Lund attended the University of Washington from 1925 to 1927. He studied engineering.
Robert Ewart Lund, a resident of Pierce County, Washington, married Margaret Crystal Argall, also a resident of Pierce County, Washington, on 12 February 1927 in Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington. They were married by R. H. McGinnis, minister. He was the son of Charles Patrick Lund and Anna Porter Ewart; Margaret was the daughter of John Charles Argall and Olive Rebecca Moore.
KEPT THEIR WEDDING SECRET
Miss Argall Becomes Bride of R. E. Lund in February.
Mr. and Mrs. John Charles Argall sent out announcements yesterday which made known the marriage of their daughter, Miss Margaret Crystall Argall, and Robert Ewart Lund, in Tacoma, Saturday, February 12.
Owing to the secrecy surrounding their wedding, which was kept quiet except from their parents, the news of the marriage of Miss Argall and Mr. Lund came as a distinct surprise to their friends here as well as on the Coast. Miss Argall has been teaching in the high school in Renton, Wash., near Seattle, and the marriage announcement was withheld until the termination of her school contract.
The romance began at the University of Washington while both young people were students there. Upon graduating from Lewis and Clark high school, Miss Argall took a two years course at Mills college, Oakland Cal., and later received her diploma from the University of Washington. She returned to Spokane last summer, following several months spent in travel in Europe.
Mr. and Mrs Argall have been residents of Spokane for many years. Mr. Argall was formerly city commissioner.
Robert Lund is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Lund, also long-time residents of the city, who have for many years been prominently identified with its social and business activities. He was educated in the public schools, attended Lewis and Clark high school, and has been studying at the University of Washington for the last two years.
With his bride, Mr. Lund will arrive from Seattle on Sunday. For the summer, Mr. and Mrs. Lund will be with Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Lund at their home, W624 Fifteenth. The bridegroom will be connected with the American bank of which his father is director. Source: The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington), Wednesday, 08 June 1927, page 9.
ROBERT E. LUND WINS COMMISSION
Robert Ewart Lund, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Lund, W624 Fifteenth avenue, was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of Infantry in the Reserves Corps today, according to a special dispatch received from the Chronicle's correspondent at Washington, D. C. Source: Spokane Chronicle (Spokane, Washington), Saturday, 23 July 1927, page 1.
Robert Lund (24 Washington) is found in the 1930 United States Federal Census (14 April 1930) for Spokane (Ward 5), Spokane County, Washington (sheet 10A, family 201, 124 Lincoln Place) along with his wife, Margaret Lund (27 Washington) and daughter Joan Lund (7/12 Washington). Robert was 21 and Margaret 23, when they married. He was a traffic manager for an airline.
Robert and Margaret had two children, Joan Argall Lund Burgan (03 September 1929 - 28 October 1990) and Charles Patrick Lund (1932-?).
1937 Lieutenant Robert E. Lund.
Sometime around this period Robert and Margaret divorced.
1940 United States Federal Census (09 April 1940): Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington (sheet 4B, household , 233 Fifth Street) – Robert Lund (35 Washington, Engineer, Gas House). He was a lodger in the Lenore Wright home. Robert had live in Spokane, Washington in 1935. He had completed four years of college. Robert was divorced. Margaret and the kids had moved to Santa Monica, California.
June 1940 Robert married again.
Selah Girl Is Married
Miss Abbie Adley Is Bride of Robert Lund
PORT ORCHARD. June 17 – Miss Abbie Adley, of Port Orchard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Adley, of Selah, exchanged wedding vows with Robert Lund of Bremerton, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Lund, Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Nuptial music was given by Miss Betty Warner, piano, and Miss Shirley Warner, violin, and vocal solos bu Mr. and Mrs. Sanky Johnson of Poulsbo, accompanied by Miss Margaret McCrory.
The bride's sister, Miss Doris Adley, was the maid of honor and John Snow of Bremerton, groomsman.
A reception was held immediately following the wedding. After a honeymoon the couple will be at home in Bremerton at 513 Summit avenue.
The bride graduated from Washington State college in 1930 and for the past four years has been a member of the faculty of South Kitsap high school in Port Orchard.
Mr. Lund attended the University of Washington. Source: The News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington), Tuesday, 19 June 1940, page 14.
Robert E. and Abbie Lund had one son, Robert Ewart Lund, Jr. (born 14 October 1941).
Reserve Officer Called For Duty With Army Unit
Capt. Robert E. Lund, president of the Army Officers Reserve Association has been inducted into the regular service and will leave this week to join the 15th U.S. Infantry which recently returned from China. He enters the service for an undetermined period.
Captain Lund, who has been with the Western Gas Company for several years, commenced his military career 15 years ago when he was an enlisted man in Headquarters Company, U.S. Infantry, California. He was sent to the University of California for training and awarded a reserve commission in which he rose from a lieutenancy.
The Army Reserve Officers will meet tomorrow night for weekly school in the Navy Y. M. C. A. where classes will be held every Tuesday night. Captain Lund will preside for the last time... Source: Bremerton Daily News Searchlight (Bremerton, Washington), Monday, 28 October 1940, page 3.
October 1941
Captain Robert E. Lund, 2405 Buker Avenue, has received orders from the War Department for his transfer from Fort Lewis to the Philippine Department, according to a release from the Fort this week. Captain Lund will sail for the Far East soon.
He will thus leave the famous Fifteenth "Can Do" Infantry, which is now stationed here after serving intermittently in China from 1900 to 1938. The captain first came to the regiment in November of last year and now is both executive officer and plans and training officer of the Second Battalion.
Captain Lund came from the ranks, enlisting into the service before entering the University of Washington, from which he was graduated as an engineer in 1926. He married Abbie Adley of Selah, Washington. Mrs. Lund, in accordance with an army requirement allowing no families to accompany officers to eastern service, will continue to live in the Lund home at 2405 Buker Avenue.
The Lunds have two children, Charles P. Lund, II, 10 years old, and a daughter, Joan, aged 14, who is at present attending High School in Los Angeles. Source: The Daily Olympian (Olympia, Washington), Friday, 10 October 1941, page 5.
With the possibility of war looming Captain Robert Lund was sent with a detachment of 10 officers to the Philippine Islands and assigned to the 31st Infantry Regiment and stationed in Manila.
War with Japan broke out on 08 December 1941. By the middle of December the 31st Infantry Regiment was transferred to the Bataan Peninsula as part of War Plan Orange. Japanese forces began a full-scale invasion of Luzon on 22 December.
In December 1941 Captain Robert Lund was promoted to Major. On Christmas Day, cabled his father to say that he was safe.
On 06 January 1942 the battle for Bataan began. Japanese artillery began shelling the Fil-American positions. "The loud, earth-shaking "carrump , of impacting shells was unnerving to even those not directly affected." The 31st Infantry Regiment was at the forefront of combat on Bataan in January, helping to form the right flank of USAFFE's main line of resistance. The 31st Infantry was in some of the fiercest fighting with the Japanese Fourteenth Army on Bataan in places like Layac Junction, Abucay and Orion-Bagac. By the middle of March, fifty percent of the regiment was sick with malaria or dysentery.
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MANY SPOKANE MEN ON BATAAN
Many Spokane men are with the forces of Lieutenant General Jonathan M. Wainwright's army on Bataan peninsula in the Philippines ... Captain Robert Lund, son of Attorney Charles P. Lund, was with the Bataan forces, his father said today. He has not heard recently from his son, Attorney Lund added. Captain Lund's wife is with her relatives in Selah, near Yakima.
Source: The Spokesman Chronicle (Spokane, Washington), Thursday, 09 April 1942, page 5.
FEAR JAPS HOLD MAJOR R. LUND
Four letters written in Bataan last March by Major Robert Lund of Spokane to his home folk and his wife at Selah reached their destination this week, it was revealed by his father, Charles P. Lund, who has been advised by the war department that his son presumably is a prisoner of the Japanese on Bataan.
Major Lund went with a detachment of 10 officers to the Philippines last October and on Christmas Day, cabled his father that he was safe. Three of the group since have been killed. During December Lund was promoted to his present rank from captain.
That was the last direct information had, aside from Colonel George S. Clarke telling Mr. Lund he had seen Robert the day he left Bataan, and Lund was "all right." The fighting continued for a month after Clarke left and nothing has been heard of Robert since, said Mr. Lund.
The letters of Major Lund indicate he had lost 40 pounds during the fighting, due to dysentery, with the lack of tobacco the toughest of their trials. Soap and cigarettes were not to be had. "I find I can do without a bath for longer time than I had ever dreamed," he wrote.
Major Lund said he was "ticked by an airplane bomb on the forehead." It was just a scratch without a scar and he was not hospitalized. Source: The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington), Friday, 14 August 1942, page 6.
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It was presumed that Major Lund became a prisoner of the Japanese when Bataan fell on 09 April 1942 but his name never showed up on any of the POW lists and after the war no survivors reported seeing him as a prisoner. What happened to him is unknown. He is still listed as an unresolved casualty today.
Major Robert Ewart Lund (S/N O-243640) is among twenty officers (unresolved casualties) recorded by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) as having been lost on Bataan.
In a statement from Robert's father's obituary: "A son, Robert, was killed at Bataan during World War II." Source: Spokane Chronicle (Spokane, Washington), Saturday, 28 May 1960, page 1.
01 February 1946 FOD – Finding of Death
In the absence of a recovered body, soldiers who were determined to be dead under Public Law 490 are designated "FOD" – finding of death. Made in cases, after at least one year from time of disappearance, when there was either conclusive proof that the person is dead or equally overwhelming evidence that the person could not have remained alive. Major Robert E. Lund was officially declared dead (FOD) on 01 February 1946.
Major Robert Ewart Lund is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing - United States Army and Army Air Forces at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
Service #: 0-243640
Rank: Major, U.S. Army
Unit: 31st Infantry Regiment
Entered Service From: Washington
Date of Death: March/April 1942 Bataan Province, Central Luzon, Philippines
Status: Missing in Action
Awards: Bronze Star, Purple Heart
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Son of Charles Patrick Lund (1876-1960) and Anna Porter Ewart (1881-1933).
1910 United States Federal Census (20 April 1910): Spokane (Ward 5), Spokane County, Washington (sheet 9B, family 210, 1008 Nora Avenue) – Robert Lund (3 Washington).
1920 United States Federal Census (07 January 1920): Spokane (Ward 5), Spokane County, Washington (sheet 5B, family 111, 124 W-15th Av) – Robert E. Lund (12 Washington).
Robert E. Lund attended the University of Washington from 1925 to 1927. He studied engineering.
Robert Ewart Lund, a resident of Pierce County, Washington, married Margaret Crystal Argall, also a resident of Pierce County, Washington, on 12 February 1927 in Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington. They were married by R. H. McGinnis, minister. He was the son of Charles Patrick Lund and Anna Porter Ewart; Margaret was the daughter of John Charles Argall and Olive Rebecca Moore.
KEPT THEIR WEDDING SECRET
Miss Argall Becomes Bride of R. E. Lund in February.
Mr. and Mrs. John Charles Argall sent out announcements yesterday which made known the marriage of their daughter, Miss Margaret Crystall Argall, and Robert Ewart Lund, in Tacoma, Saturday, February 12.
Owing to the secrecy surrounding their wedding, which was kept quiet except from their parents, the news of the marriage of Miss Argall and Mr. Lund came as a distinct surprise to their friends here as well as on the Coast. Miss Argall has been teaching in the high school in Renton, Wash., near Seattle, and the marriage announcement was withheld until the termination of her school contract.
The romance began at the University of Washington while both young people were students there. Upon graduating from Lewis and Clark high school, Miss Argall took a two years course at Mills college, Oakland Cal., and later received her diploma from the University of Washington. She returned to Spokane last summer, following several months spent in travel in Europe.
Mr. and Mrs Argall have been residents of Spokane for many years. Mr. Argall was formerly city commissioner.
Robert Lund is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Lund, also long-time residents of the city, who have for many years been prominently identified with its social and business activities. He was educated in the public schools, attended Lewis and Clark high school, and has been studying at the University of Washington for the last two years.
With his bride, Mr. Lund will arrive from Seattle on Sunday. For the summer, Mr. and Mrs. Lund will be with Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Lund at their home, W624 Fifteenth. The bridegroom will be connected with the American bank of which his father is director. Source: The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington), Wednesday, 08 June 1927, page 9.
ROBERT E. LUND WINS COMMISSION
Robert Ewart Lund, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Lund, W624 Fifteenth avenue, was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of Infantry in the Reserves Corps today, according to a special dispatch received from the Chronicle's correspondent at Washington, D. C. Source: Spokane Chronicle (Spokane, Washington), Saturday, 23 July 1927, page 1.
Robert Lund (24 Washington) is found in the 1930 United States Federal Census (14 April 1930) for Spokane (Ward 5), Spokane County, Washington (sheet 10A, family 201, 124 Lincoln Place) along with his wife, Margaret Lund (27 Washington) and daughter Joan Lund (7/12 Washington). Robert was 21 and Margaret 23, when they married. He was a traffic manager for an airline.
Robert and Margaret had two children, Joan Argall Lund Burgan (03 September 1929 - 28 October 1990) and Charles Patrick Lund (1932-?).
1937 Lieutenant Robert E. Lund.
Sometime around this period Robert and Margaret divorced.
1940 United States Federal Census (09 April 1940): Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington (sheet 4B, household , 233 Fifth Street) – Robert Lund (35 Washington, Engineer, Gas House). He was a lodger in the Lenore Wright home. Robert had live in Spokane, Washington in 1935. He had completed four years of college. Robert was divorced. Margaret and the kids had moved to Santa Monica, California.
June 1940 Robert married again.
Selah Girl Is Married
Miss Abbie Adley Is Bride of Robert Lund
PORT ORCHARD. June 17 – Miss Abbie Adley, of Port Orchard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Adley, of Selah, exchanged wedding vows with Robert Lund of Bremerton, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Lund, Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Nuptial music was given by Miss Betty Warner, piano, and Miss Shirley Warner, violin, and vocal solos bu Mr. and Mrs. Sanky Johnson of Poulsbo, accompanied by Miss Margaret McCrory.
The bride's sister, Miss Doris Adley, was the maid of honor and John Snow of Bremerton, groomsman.
A reception was held immediately following the wedding. After a honeymoon the couple will be at home in Bremerton at 513 Summit avenue.
The bride graduated from Washington State college in 1930 and for the past four years has been a member of the faculty of South Kitsap high school in Port Orchard.
Mr. Lund attended the University of Washington. Source: The News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington), Tuesday, 19 June 1940, page 14.
Robert E. and Abbie Lund had one son, Robert Ewart Lund, Jr. (born 14 October 1941).
Reserve Officer Called For Duty With Army Unit
Capt. Robert E. Lund, president of the Army Officers Reserve Association has been inducted into the regular service and will leave this week to join the 15th U.S. Infantry which recently returned from China. He enters the service for an undetermined period.
Captain Lund, who has been with the Western Gas Company for several years, commenced his military career 15 years ago when he was an enlisted man in Headquarters Company, U.S. Infantry, California. He was sent to the University of California for training and awarded a reserve commission in which he rose from a lieutenancy.
The Army Reserve Officers will meet tomorrow night for weekly school in the Navy Y. M. C. A. where classes will be held every Tuesday night. Captain Lund will preside for the last time... Source: Bremerton Daily News Searchlight (Bremerton, Washington), Monday, 28 October 1940, page 3.
October 1941
Captain Robert E. Lund, 2405 Buker Avenue, has received orders from the War Department for his transfer from Fort Lewis to the Philippine Department, according to a release from the Fort this week. Captain Lund will sail for the Far East soon.
He will thus leave the famous Fifteenth "Can Do" Infantry, which is now stationed here after serving intermittently in China from 1900 to 1938. The captain first came to the regiment in November of last year and now is both executive officer and plans and training officer of the Second Battalion.
Captain Lund came from the ranks, enlisting into the service before entering the University of Washington, from which he was graduated as an engineer in 1926. He married Abbie Adley of Selah, Washington. Mrs. Lund, in accordance with an army requirement allowing no families to accompany officers to eastern service, will continue to live in the Lund home at 2405 Buker Avenue.
The Lunds have two children, Charles P. Lund, II, 10 years old, and a daughter, Joan, aged 14, who is at present attending High School in Los Angeles. Source: The Daily Olympian (Olympia, Washington), Friday, 10 October 1941, page 5.
With the possibility of war looming Captain Robert Lund was sent with a detachment of 10 officers to the Philippine Islands and assigned to the 31st Infantry Regiment and stationed in Manila.
War with Japan broke out on 08 December 1941. By the middle of December the 31st Infantry Regiment was transferred to the Bataan Peninsula as part of War Plan Orange. Japanese forces began a full-scale invasion of Luzon on 22 December.
In December 1941 Captain Robert Lund was promoted to Major. On Christmas Day, cabled his father to say that he was safe.
On 06 January 1942 the battle for Bataan began. Japanese artillery began shelling the Fil-American positions. "The loud, earth-shaking "carrump , of impacting shells was unnerving to even those not directly affected." The 31st Infantry Regiment was at the forefront of combat on Bataan in January, helping to form the right flank of USAFFE's main line of resistance. The 31st Infantry was in some of the fiercest fighting with the Japanese Fourteenth Army on Bataan in places like Layac Junction, Abucay and Orion-Bagac. By the middle of March, fifty percent of the regiment was sick with malaria or dysentery.
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MANY SPOKANE MEN ON BATAAN
Many Spokane men are with the forces of Lieutenant General Jonathan M. Wainwright's army on Bataan peninsula in the Philippines ... Captain Robert Lund, son of Attorney Charles P. Lund, was with the Bataan forces, his father said today. He has not heard recently from his son, Attorney Lund added. Captain Lund's wife is with her relatives in Selah, near Yakima.
Source: The Spokesman Chronicle (Spokane, Washington), Thursday, 09 April 1942, page 5.
FEAR JAPS HOLD MAJOR R. LUND
Four letters written in Bataan last March by Major Robert Lund of Spokane to his home folk and his wife at Selah reached their destination this week, it was revealed by his father, Charles P. Lund, who has been advised by the war department that his son presumably is a prisoner of the Japanese on Bataan.
Major Lund went with a detachment of 10 officers to the Philippines last October and on Christmas Day, cabled his father that he was safe. Three of the group since have been killed. During December Lund was promoted to his present rank from captain.
That was the last direct information had, aside from Colonel George S. Clarke telling Mr. Lund he had seen Robert the day he left Bataan, and Lund was "all right." The fighting continued for a month after Clarke left and nothing has been heard of Robert since, said Mr. Lund.
The letters of Major Lund indicate he had lost 40 pounds during the fighting, due to dysentery, with the lack of tobacco the toughest of their trials. Soap and cigarettes were not to be had. "I find I can do without a bath for longer time than I had ever dreamed," he wrote.
Major Lund said he was "ticked by an airplane bomb on the forehead." It was just a scratch without a scar and he was not hospitalized. Source: The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington), Friday, 14 August 1942, page 6.
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It was presumed that Major Lund became a prisoner of the Japanese when Bataan fell on 09 April 1942 but his name never showed up on any of the POW lists and after the war no survivors reported seeing him as a prisoner. What happened to him is unknown. He is still listed as an unresolved casualty today.
Major Robert Ewart Lund (S/N O-243640) is among twenty officers (unresolved casualties) recorded by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) as having been lost on Bataan.
In a statement from Robert's father's obituary: "A son, Robert, was killed at Bataan during World War II." Source: Spokane Chronicle (Spokane, Washington), Saturday, 28 May 1960, page 1.
01 February 1946 FOD – Finding of Death
In the absence of a recovered body, soldiers who were determined to be dead under Public Law 490 are designated "FOD" – finding of death. Made in cases, after at least one year from time of disappearance, when there was either conclusive proof that the person is dead or equally overwhelming evidence that the person could not have remained alive. Major Robert E. Lund was officially declared dead (FOD) on 01 February 1946.
Major Robert Ewart Lund is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing - United States Army and Army Air Forces at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
Robert E. Lund
Service #: 0-243640
Rank: Major, U.S. Army
Unit: 31st Infantry Regiment
Entered Service From: Washington
Date of Death: March/April 1942 Bataan Province, Central Luzon, Philippines
Status: Missing in Action
Awards: Bronze Star, Purple Heart
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Son of Charles Patrick Lund (1876-1960) and Anna Porter Ewart (1881-1933).
1910 United States Federal Census (20 April 1910): Spokane (Ward 5), Spokane County, Washington (sheet 9B, family 210, 1008 Nora Avenue) – Robert Lund (3 Washington).
1920 United States Federal Census (07 January 1920): Spokane (Ward 5), Spokane County, Washington (sheet 5B, family 111, 124 W-15th Av) – Robert E. Lund (12 Washington).
Robert E. Lund attended the University of Washington from 1925 to 1927. He studied engineering.
Robert Ewart Lund, a resident of Pierce County, Washington, married Margaret Crystal Argall, also a resident of Pierce County, Washington, on 12 February 1927 in Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington. They were married by R. H. McGinnis, minister. He was the son of Charles Patrick Lund and Anna Porter Ewart; Margaret was the daughter of John Charles Argall and Olive Rebecca Moore.
KEPT THEIR WEDDING SECRET
Miss Argall Becomes Bride of R. E. Lund in February.
Mr. and Mrs. John Charles Argall sent out announcements yesterday which made known the marriage of their daughter, Miss Margaret Crystall Argall, and Robert Ewart Lund, in Tacoma, Saturday, February 12.
Owing to the secrecy surrounding their wedding, which was kept quiet except from their parents, the news of the marriage of Miss Argall and Mr. Lund came as a distinct surprise to their friends here as well as on the Coast. Miss Argall has been teaching in the high school in Renton, Wash., near Seattle, and the marriage announcement was withheld until the termination of her school contract.
The romance began at the University of Washington while both young people were students there. Upon graduating from Lewis and Clark high school, Miss Argall took a two years course at Mills college, Oakland Cal., and later received her diploma from the University of Washington. She returned to Spokane last summer, following several months spent in travel in Europe.
Mr. and Mrs Argall have been residents of Spokane for many years. Mr. Argall was formerly city commissioner.
Robert Lund is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Lund, also long-time residents of the city, who have for many years been prominently identified with its social and business activities. He was educated in the public schools, attended Lewis and Clark high school, and has been studying at the University of Washington for the last two years.
With his bride, Mr. Lund will arrive from Seattle on Sunday. For the summer, Mr. and Mrs. Lund will be with Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Lund at their home, W624 Fifteenth. The bridegroom will be connected with the American bank of which his father is director. Source: The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington), Wednesday, 08 June 1927, page 9.
ROBERT E. LUND WINS COMMISSION
Robert Ewart Lund, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Lund, W624 Fifteenth avenue, was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of Infantry in the Reserves Corps today, according to a special dispatch received from the Chronicle's correspondent at Washington, D. C. Source: Spokane Chronicle (Spokane, Washington), Saturday, 23 July 1927, page 1.
Robert Lund (24 Washington) is found in the 1930 United States Federal Census (14 April 1930) for Spokane (Ward 5), Spokane County, Washington (sheet 10A, family 201, 124 Lincoln Place) along with his wife, Margaret Lund (27 Washington) and daughter Joan Lund (7/12 Washington). Robert was 21 and Margaret 23, when they married. He was a traffic manager for an airline.
Robert and Margaret had two children, Joan Argall Lund Burgan (03 September 1929 - 28 October 1990) and Charles Patrick Lund (1932-?).
1937 Lieutenant Robert E. Lund.
Sometime around this period Robert and Margaret divorced.
1940 United States Federal Census (09 April 1940): Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington (sheet 4B, household , 233 Fifth Street) – Robert Lund (35 Washington, Engineer, Gas House). He was a lodger in the Lenore Wright home. Robert had live in Spokane, Washington in 1935. He had completed four years of college. Robert was divorced. Margaret and the kids had moved to Santa Monica, California.
June 1940 Robert married again.
Selah Girl Is Married
Miss Abbie Adley Is Bride of Robert Lund
PORT ORCHARD. June 17 – Miss Abbie Adley, of Port Orchard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Adley, of Selah, exchanged wedding vows with Robert Lund of Bremerton, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Lund, Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Nuptial music was given by Miss Betty Warner, piano, and Miss Shirley Warner, violin, and vocal solos bu Mr. and Mrs. Sanky Johnson of Poulsbo, accompanied by Miss Margaret McCrory.
The bride's sister, Miss Doris Adley, was the maid of honor and John Snow of Bremerton, groomsman.
A reception was held immediately following the wedding. After a honeymoon the couple will be at home in Bremerton at 513 Summit avenue.
The bride graduated from Washington State college in 1930 and for the past four years has been a member of the faculty of South Kitsap high school in Port Orchard.
Mr. Lund attended the University of Washington. Source: The News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington), Tuesday, 19 June 1940, page 14.
Robert E. and Abbie Lund had one son, Robert Ewart Lund, Jr. (born 14 October 1941).
Reserve Officer Called For Duty With Army Unit
Capt. Robert E. Lund, president of the Army Officers Reserve Association has been inducted into the regular service and will leave this week to join the 15th U.S. Infantry which recently returned from China. He enters the service for an undetermined period.
Captain Lund, who has been with the Western Gas Company for several years, commenced his military career 15 years ago when he was an enlisted man in Headquarters Company, U.S. Infantry, California. He was sent to the University of California for training and awarded a reserve commission in which he rose from a lieutenancy.
The Army Reserve Officers will meet tomorrow night for weekly school in the Navy Y. M. C. A. where classes will be held every Tuesday night. Captain Lund will preside for the last time... Source: Bremerton Daily News Searchlight (Bremerton, Washington), Monday, 28 October 1940, page 3.
October 1941
Captain Robert E. Lund, 2405 Buker Avenue, has received orders from the War Department for his transfer from Fort Lewis to the Philippine Department, according to a release from the Fort this week. Captain Lund will sail for the Far East soon.
He will thus leave the famous Fifteenth "Can Do" Infantry, which is now stationed here after serving intermittently in China from 1900 to 1938. The captain first came to the regiment in November of last year and now is both executive officer and plans and training officer of the Second Battalion.
Captain Lund came from the ranks, enlisting into the service before entering the University of Washington, from which he was graduated as an engineer in 1926. He married Abbie Adley of Selah, Washington. Mrs. Lund, in accordance with an army requirement allowing no families to accompany officers to eastern service, will continue to live in the Lund home at 2405 Buker Avenue.
The Lunds have two children, Charles P. Lund, II, 10 years old, and a daughter, Joan, aged 14, who is at present attending High School in Los Angeles. Source: The Daily Olympian (Olympia, Washington), Friday, 10 October 1941, page 5.
With the possibility of war looming Captain Robert Lund was sent with a detachment of 10 officers to the Philippine Islands and assigned to the 31st Infantry Regiment and stationed in Manila.
War with Japan broke out on 08 December 1941. By the middle of December the 31st Infantry Regiment was transferred to the Bataan Peninsula as part of War Plan Orange. Japanese forces began a full-scale invasion of Luzon on 22 December.
In December 1941 Captain Robert Lund was promoted to Major. On Christmas Day, cabled his father to say that he was safe.
On 06 January 1942 the battle for Bataan began. Japanese artillery began shelling the Fil-American positions. "The loud, earth-shaking "carrump , of impacting shells was unnerving to even those not directly affected." The 31st Infantry Regiment was at the forefront of combat on Bataan in January, helping to form the right flank of USAFFE's main line of resistance. The 31st Infantry was in some of the fiercest fighting with the Japanese Fourteenth Army on Bataan in places like Layac Junction, Abucay and Orion-Bagac. By the middle of March, fifty percent of the regiment was sick with malaria or dysentery.
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MANY SPOKANE MEN ON BATAAN
Many Spokane men are with the forces of Lieutenant General Jonathan M. Wainwright's army on Bataan peninsula in the Philippines ... Captain Robert Lund, son of Attorney Charles P. Lund, was with the Bataan forces, his father said today. He has not heard recently from his son, Attorney Lund added. Captain Lund's wife is with her relatives in Selah, near Yakima.
Source: The Spokesman Chronicle (Spokane, Washington), Thursday, 09 April 1942, page 5.
FEAR JAPS HOLD MAJOR R. LUND
Four letters written in Bataan last March by Major Robert Lund of Spokane to his home folk and his wife at Selah reached their destination this week, it was revealed by his father, Charles P. Lund, who has been advised by the war department that his son presumably is a prisoner of the Japanese on Bataan.
Major Lund went with a detachment of 10 officers to the Philippines last October and on Christmas Day, cabled his father that he was safe. Three of the group since have been killed. During December Lund was promoted to his present rank from captain.
That was the last direct information had, aside from Colonel George S. Clarke telling Mr. Lund he had seen Robert the day he left Bataan, and Lund was "all right." The fighting continued for a month after Clarke left and nothing has been heard of Robert since, said Mr. Lund.
The letters of Major Lund indicate he had lost 40 pounds during the fighting, due to dysentery, with the lack of tobacco the toughest of their trials. Soap and cigarettes were not to be had. "I find I can do without a bath for longer time than I had ever dreamed," he wrote.
Major Lund said he was "ticked by an airplane bomb on the forehead." It was just a scratch without a scar and he was not hospitalized. Source: The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington), Friday, 14 August 1942, page 6.
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It was presumed that Major Lund became a prisoner of the Japanese when Bataan fell on 09 April 1942 but his name never showed up on any of the POW lists and after the war no survivors reported seeing him as a prisoner. What happened to him is unknown. He is still listed as an unresolved casualty today.
Major Robert Ewart Lund (S/N O-243640) is among twenty officers (unresolved casualties) recorded by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) as having been lost on Bataan.
In a statement from Robert's father's obituary: "A son, Robert, was killed at Bataan during World War II." Source: Spokane Chronicle (Spokane, Washington), Saturday, 28 May 1960, page 1.
01 February 1946 FOD – Finding of Death
In the absence of a recovered body, soldiers who were determined to be dead under Public Law 490 are designated "FOD" – finding of death. Made in cases, after at least one year from time of disappearance, when there was either conclusive proof that the person is dead or equally overwhelming evidence that the person could not have remained alive. Major Robert E. Lund was officially declared dead (FOD) on 01 February 1946.
Major Robert Ewart Lund is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing - United States Army and Army Air Forces at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
Service #: 0-243640
Rank: Major, U.S. Army
Unit: 31st Infantry Regiment
Entered Service From: Washington
Date of Death: March/April 1942 Bataan Province, Central Luzon, Philippines
Status: Missing in Action
Awards: Bronze Star, Purple Heart
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Son of Charles Patrick Lund (1876-1960) and Anna Porter Ewart (1881-1933).
1910 United States Federal Census (20 April 1910): Spokane (Ward 5), Spokane County, Washington (sheet 9B, family 210, 1008 Nora Avenue) – Robert Lund (3 Washington).
1920 United States Federal Census (07 January 1920): Spokane (Ward 5), Spokane County, Washington (sheet 5B, family 111, 124 W-15th Av) – Robert E. Lund (12 Washington).
Robert E. Lund attended the University of Washington from 1925 to 1927. He studied engineering.
Robert Ewart Lund, a resident of Pierce County, Washington, married Margaret Crystal Argall, also a resident of Pierce County, Washington, on 12 February 1927 in Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington. They were married by R. H. McGinnis, minister. He was the son of Charles Patrick Lund and Anna Porter Ewart; Margaret was the daughter of John Charles Argall and Olive Rebecca Moore.
KEPT THEIR WEDDING SECRET
Miss Argall Becomes Bride of R. E. Lund in February.
Mr. and Mrs. John Charles Argall sent out announcements yesterday which made known the marriage of their daughter, Miss Margaret Crystall Argall, and Robert Ewart Lund, in Tacoma, Saturday, February 12.
Owing to the secrecy surrounding their wedding, which was kept quiet except from their parents, the news of the marriage of Miss Argall and Mr. Lund came as a distinct surprise to their friends here as well as on the Coast. Miss Argall has been teaching in the high school in Renton, Wash., near Seattle, and the marriage announcement was withheld until the termination of her school contract.
The romance began at the University of Washington while both young people were students there. Upon graduating from Lewis and Clark high school, Miss Argall took a two years course at Mills college, Oakland Cal., and later received her diploma from the University of Washington. She returned to Spokane last summer, following several months spent in travel in Europe.
Mr. and Mrs Argall have been residents of Spokane for many years. Mr. Argall was formerly city commissioner.
Robert Lund is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Lund, also long-time residents of the city, who have for many years been prominently identified with its social and business activities. He was educated in the public schools, attended Lewis and Clark high school, and has been studying at the University of Washington for the last two years.
With his bride, Mr. Lund will arrive from Seattle on Sunday. For the summer, Mr. and Mrs. Lund will be with Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Lund at their home, W624 Fifteenth. The bridegroom will be connected with the American bank of which his father is director. Source: The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington), Wednesday, 08 June 1927, page 9.
ROBERT E. LUND WINS COMMISSION
Robert Ewart Lund, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Lund, W624 Fifteenth avenue, was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of Infantry in the Reserves Corps today, according to a special dispatch received from the Chronicle's correspondent at Washington, D. C. Source: Spokane Chronicle (Spokane, Washington), Saturday, 23 July 1927, page 1.
Robert Lund (24 Washington) is found in the 1930 United States Federal Census (14 April 1930) for Spokane (Ward 5), Spokane County, Washington (sheet 10A, family 201, 124 Lincoln Place) along with his wife, Margaret Lund (27 Washington) and daughter Joan Lund (7/12 Washington). Robert was 21 and Margaret 23, when they married. He was a traffic manager for an airline.
Robert and Margaret had two children, Joan Argall Lund Burgan (03 September 1929 - 28 October 1990) and Charles Patrick Lund (1932-?).
1937 Lieutenant Robert E. Lund.
Sometime around this period Robert and Margaret divorced.
1940 United States Federal Census (09 April 1940): Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington (sheet 4B, household , 233 Fifth Street) – Robert Lund (35 Washington, Engineer, Gas House). He was a lodger in the Lenore Wright home. Robert had live in Spokane, Washington in 1935. He had completed four years of college. Robert was divorced. Margaret and the kids had moved to Santa Monica, California.
June 1940 Robert married again.
Selah Girl Is Married
Miss Abbie Adley Is Bride of Robert Lund
PORT ORCHARD. June 17 – Miss Abbie Adley, of Port Orchard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Adley, of Selah, exchanged wedding vows with Robert Lund of Bremerton, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Lund, Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Nuptial music was given by Miss Betty Warner, piano, and Miss Shirley Warner, violin, and vocal solos bu Mr. and Mrs. Sanky Johnson of Poulsbo, accompanied by Miss Margaret McCrory.
The bride's sister, Miss Doris Adley, was the maid of honor and John Snow of Bremerton, groomsman.
A reception was held immediately following the wedding. After a honeymoon the couple will be at home in Bremerton at 513 Summit avenue.
The bride graduated from Washington State college in 1930 and for the past four years has been a member of the faculty of South Kitsap high school in Port Orchard.
Mr. Lund attended the University of Washington. Source: The News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington), Tuesday, 19 June 1940, page 14.
Robert E. and Abbie Lund had one son, Robert Ewart Lund, Jr. (born 14 October 1941).
Reserve Officer Called For Duty With Army Unit
Capt. Robert E. Lund, president of the Army Officers Reserve Association has been inducted into the regular service and will leave this week to join the 15th U.S. Infantry which recently returned from China. He enters the service for an undetermined period.
Captain Lund, who has been with the Western Gas Company for several years, commenced his military career 15 years ago when he was an enlisted man in Headquarters Company, U.S. Infantry, California. He was sent to the University of California for training and awarded a reserve commission in which he rose from a lieutenancy.
The Army Reserve Officers will meet tomorrow night for weekly school in the Navy Y. M. C. A. where classes will be held every Tuesday night. Captain Lund will preside for the last time... Source: Bremerton Daily News Searchlight (Bremerton, Washington), Monday, 28 October 1940, page 3.
October 1941
Captain Robert E. Lund, 2405 Buker Avenue, has received orders from the War Department for his transfer from Fort Lewis to the Philippine Department, according to a release from the Fort this week. Captain Lund will sail for the Far East soon.
He will thus leave the famous Fifteenth "Can Do" Infantry, which is now stationed here after serving intermittently in China from 1900 to 1938. The captain first came to the regiment in November of last year and now is both executive officer and plans and training officer of the Second Battalion.
Captain Lund came from the ranks, enlisting into the service before entering the University of Washington, from which he was graduated as an engineer in 1926. He married Abbie Adley of Selah, Washington. Mrs. Lund, in accordance with an army requirement allowing no families to accompany officers to eastern service, will continue to live in the Lund home at 2405 Buker Avenue.
The Lunds have two children, Charles P. Lund, II, 10 years old, and a daughter, Joan, aged 14, who is at present attending High School in Los Angeles. Source: The Daily Olympian (Olympia, Washington), Friday, 10 October 1941, page 5.
With the possibility of war looming Captain Robert Lund was sent with a detachment of 10 officers to the Philippine Islands and assigned to the 31st Infantry Regiment and stationed in Manila.
War with Japan broke out on 08 December 1941. By the middle of December the 31st Infantry Regiment was transferred to the Bataan Peninsula as part of War Plan Orange. Japanese forces began a full-scale invasion of Luzon on 22 December.
In December 1941 Captain Robert Lund was promoted to Major. On Christmas Day, cabled his father to say that he was safe.
On 06 January 1942 the battle for Bataan began. Japanese artillery began shelling the Fil-American positions. "The loud, earth-shaking "carrump , of impacting shells was unnerving to even those not directly affected." The 31st Infantry Regiment was at the forefront of combat on Bataan in January, helping to form the right flank of USAFFE's main line of resistance. The 31st Infantry was in some of the fiercest fighting with the Japanese Fourteenth Army on Bataan in places like Layac Junction, Abucay and Orion-Bagac. By the middle of March, fifty percent of the regiment was sick with malaria or dysentery.
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MANY SPOKANE MEN ON BATAAN
Many Spokane men are with the forces of Lieutenant General Jonathan M. Wainwright's army on Bataan peninsula in the Philippines ... Captain Robert Lund, son of Attorney Charles P. Lund, was with the Bataan forces, his father said today. He has not heard recently from his son, Attorney Lund added. Captain Lund's wife is with her relatives in Selah, near Yakima.
Source: The Spokesman Chronicle (Spokane, Washington), Thursday, 09 April 1942, page 5.
FEAR JAPS HOLD MAJOR R. LUND
Four letters written in Bataan last March by Major Robert Lund of Spokane to his home folk and his wife at Selah reached their destination this week, it was revealed by his father, Charles P. Lund, who has been advised by the war department that his son presumably is a prisoner of the Japanese on Bataan.
Major Lund went with a detachment of 10 officers to the Philippines last October and on Christmas Day, cabled his father that he was safe. Three of the group since have been killed. During December Lund was promoted to his present rank from captain.
That was the last direct information had, aside from Colonel George S. Clarke telling Mr. Lund he had seen Robert the day he left Bataan, and Lund was "all right." The fighting continued for a month after Clarke left and nothing has been heard of Robert since, said Mr. Lund.
The letters of Major Lund indicate he had lost 40 pounds during the fighting, due to dysentery, with the lack of tobacco the toughest of their trials. Soap and cigarettes were not to be had. "I find I can do without a bath for longer time than I had ever dreamed," he wrote.
Major Lund said he was "ticked by an airplane bomb on the forehead." It was just a scratch without a scar and he was not hospitalized. Source: The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington), Friday, 14 August 1942, page 6.
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It was presumed that Major Lund became a prisoner of the Japanese when Bataan fell on 09 April 1942 but his name never showed up on any of the POW lists and after the war no survivors reported seeing him as a prisoner. What happened to him is unknown. He is still listed as an unresolved casualty today.
Major Robert Ewart Lund (S/N O-243640) is among twenty officers (unresolved casualties) recorded by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) as having been lost on Bataan.
In a statement from Robert's father's obituary: "A son, Robert, was killed at Bataan during World War II." Source: Spokane Chronicle (Spokane, Washington), Saturday, 28 May 1960, page 1.
01 February 1946 FOD – Finding of Death
In the absence of a recovered body, soldiers who were determined to be dead under Public Law 490 are designated "FOD" – finding of death. Made in cases, after at least one year from time of disappearance, when there was either conclusive proof that the person is dead or equally overwhelming evidence that the person could not have remained alive. Major Robert E. Lund was officially declared dead (FOD) on 01 February 1946.
Major Robert Ewart Lund is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing - United States Army and Army Air Forces at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
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