In re the Probate of the Will of Thompson

Pratt, S.

Arnold W. Thompson, a second lieutenant in the United States Army, was captured on Bataan in the Philippine invasion in the early days of the war; he participated in the ■ death march on Bataan, and subsequently was taken aboard a Japanese prison ship, which was sunk by an American bomb and he was never thereafter heard from. The United States Government notified Edward J. Smith, by telegram, dated July „ 23, 1945, and by confirming letter, dated July 24, 1945, that decedent was killed in action in the Pacific area December 15, 1944, while being transported aboard a Japanese vessel,…