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The arms represent
Spanish (the Galleon), French (the Fleur-de-Lis), and Filipino (the
Sun) ancestry and were assumed by the descendants of Ramon Bernardo
Bucoy prior to being registered by the American College of Heraldry.
These armorial bearings
are registered in memory of Ramon Bernardo Bucoy who was born in 1905
in Ayala, Zamboanga, Philippines and was the father of six boys and
four girls. He participated in two Far Eastern Olympics, enlisted in
the US Army in 1940, served during World War II in the Asiatic-Pacific
Theatre/Philippine Campaigns, was a POW during the Japanese occupation
and later attended the 8th Army Engineering School in Fort Belvoir, Va,
completing the Electrician Combat Construction Foreman course. He was
honourably discharged from the US Army in the rank of Master Sergeant
and went on to teach at a university in Manila, Philippines for a
number of years before following his children to the United Stated
where he worked for the US Postal Service prior to his retirement. He
passed away in the Philippines in 1975 whilst visiting his home. |
