Editors Note: This year, we will be making a special effort to remember each and every known member of the 192nd Tank Battalion. As part of that remembrance, we will list each day the members who were killed or died on that date, along with links for additional information as available. We look forward to your comments.

PFC Garratt Gilbert Royalty

January 5th

PFC. Garratt Gilbert Royalty

On this date in 1985, PFC Garratt Gilbert Royalty (Co. D) passed away in Harrodsburg, Kentucky. As a POW, PFC Royalty was among a group of prisoners rescued in the Great Raid at Cabanatuan on January 30, 1945.

Link to Royalty’s Bataan Project page: http://bataanproject.com/Royalty.html

information on the Great Raid at Cabanatuan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_at_Cabanatuan