Lawrence Arthur Bosworth was born on August 20, 1906, in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas. He was the son of Arthur and Luella Bosworth. He was married to Alice Turner Mitchell. He graduated from East High School in 1923, attended Wichita University for a year, and then entered West Point, graduating in 1930. He later earned a master’s degree from MIT while serving in the Army. Choosing coastal artillery, he trained at Fort MacArthur, California, and served three years at Fort Sherman in Panama.

In 1940, Major Bosworth was assigned to Corregidor in the Philippines with the 91st Coast Artillery Regiment, Philippine Scouts, where he oversaw the planning and operation of anti-aircraft batteries. When Japan invaded in 1941, he fought in Bataan and Corregidor until the fortress fell on April 9, 1942. Captured, he spent over two years as a prisoner at PW Camp #1 in Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija. Tragically, on December 15, 1944, he died when the Japanese prison ship transporting him and other POWs from Luzon to Japan was sunk.

Maj Bosworth's name is memorialized in the Tablets of the Missing in the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, Manila, Capital District, National Capital Region, Philippines.

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