Cyril Quentin “Bud” Marron was born on June 26, 1901, in Denver, City and County of Denver, Colorado. He was the son of John Joseph Marron and Mary Ann Crowley Marron. He was married to Ruth Elizabeth Schumacher Singer. He was a West Point graduate of the Class of 1923, was commissioned in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, and served at posts in Georgia, Washington, D.C., and Nebraska before World War II.

Cyril was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in December 1941 and commanded the 2nd Battalion, 31st Infantry in the Philippines. He was captured after the fall of Bataan and endured years as a POW in camps at O’Donnell, Davao, and Manila. In December 1944, he was among 1,620 Allied prisoners loaded aboard the unmarked hell ship Oryoku Maru, which was sunk by U.S. aircraft in Subic Bay; he perished at sea on December 15, 1944.

LTC Marron’s name is memorialized in the Tablets of the Missing in the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, Manila, Capital District, National Capital Region, Philippines. He also has a cenotaph in the United States Military Academy Post Cemetery, West Point, Orange County, New York, USA.

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