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Contact Info
Home Town Fort Monroe
Last Address San Diego, California
Date of Passing Mar 11, 1927
Location of Interment Greenwood Memorial Park - San Diego, California
Wall/Plot Coordinates American Legion Plot
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Captain William Francis Gerth first saw service in Cuba as a Private during the Spanish-American War with Company F, 71st Infantry Regiment. Upon returning to New York he re-enlisted with Company H, 7th Artillery at Fort Adams, Rhode Island where he remained through 1906 serving also with the 78th Coast Artillery. The now Sergeant Gerth was sent to Fort Moultrie, South Carolina where he served with the 129th Coastal Artillery. After only staying at this post for a short time Gerth returned to Fort Adams in 1907 where he was assigned as Quartermaster Sergeant and in 1911 Post Ordnance Sergeant. From 1913 through January 1918 Gerth served as Ordnance Sergeant at various posts including; Ft Revere Massachusetts; Fort Logan Colorado, Manila, and the Philippine Ordnance Depot.
In February 1918 Gerth accepted a commission as 1LT, Ordnance Corp and in September he re-branched to Chemical Warfare Service and was promoted to Captain on 1 October 1918.
Captain Gerth retired from the Army in 1921 and moved to San Diego where he passed away in 1927.
Moro Rebellion (Philippines)
From Month/Year
February / 1899
To Month/Year
June / 1913
Description The Moro Rebellion (1899–1913) was an armed conflict between Moro indigenous ethnic groups and the United States military which took place in the southern Philippines but was unconnected to the Spanish–American War in 1898.
The word "Moro" is a term for ethnic Muslims who lived in the Southern Philippines, an area that includes Mindanao Jolo and the neighboring Sulu Archipelago.
After the American government informed the Moros that they would continue the old protectorate relationship that they had with Spain, the Moro Sulu Sultan rejected this and demanded that a new treaty be negotiated. The United States signed the Bates Treaty with the Moro Sulu Sultanate which guaranteed the Sultanate's autonomy in its internal affairs and governance while America dealt with its foreign relations, in order to keep the Moros out of the Philippine–American War. Once the Americans subdued the northern Filipinos, the Bates Treaty with the Moros was violated by the Americans and they invaded Moroland.
After the war in 1915, the Americans imposed the Carpenter Treaty on Sulu.
