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Robert Frank Augur

1910–2000

Captain (retired; wartime Coast Artillery first lieutenant / later captain)

U.S. Army; Coast Artillery, Philippines (commissioned Fort Stevens, Oregon, 1940); wounded and captured at Corregidor 1942; POW Manila (Malinta Tunnel hospital / Old Bilibid Prison) ~33 months; repatriated 1945

Documented decorations

Robert Frank Augur’s Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart are named in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ #VeteranOfTheDay award list for his Coast Artillery and prisoner-of-war service in the Philippines. This decorations page records those three types from that VA sentence. The same VA list also names a Distinguished Service Cross; under the register’s Murphy rule for service crosses already in the public record, that cross is not re-badged as a fourth decorations-row symbol here. No Combat “V” or oak-leaf counts are invented.

Commissioned at Fort Stevens, Oregon, in 1940, Augur lost his left leg above the knee in 1942 fighting, was captured at Corregidor, and spent about thirty-three months as a POW in Manila. After repatriation he was promoted to captain while recovering, married in 1945, and later worked in trucking in Oregon. He died in 2000 at eighty-nine. The Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart are the published decoration names placed on this row.

This name is not yet on a war-roll essay. The decorations above are the documented public record this register will stand on until that essay is written.

A publisher register — not a verification

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