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Surnames: CECIL
Classification: Military
Message Board URL:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pMI.2ACIB/467
Message Board Post:
Source:
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/moh1.htm
Note: This is not my ancestry. I have NO additional information. I am just passing along
information that may be useful.
CECIL, JOSEPHUS S.
Rank and organization: First Lieutenant, 19th U.S. Infantry. Place and date: At Bud-Dajo,
Jolo, Philippine Islands, 7 March 1906. Entered service at: New River, Tenn. Birth: New
River, Tenn. Date of issue: Unknown. Citation: While at the head of the column about to
assault the first cotta under a superior fire at short range personally carried to a
sheltered position a wounded man and the body of one who was killed beside him.
Burial: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
Born: 1878 NEW RIVER, TN
Died: 1940
Additional Information and cemetery monument photo:
http://www.homeofheroes.com/gravesites/arlington/cecil_joseph.html