Location: Derham Park, F.B. Harrison Street cor. Derham Street, Pasay City
Category: Personage
Type: Biographical marker
Status: Level II – Historical marker
Marker date: 29 May 1984
Installed by: National Historical Institute (NHI)
Marker text:
MANUEL COLAYCO
(1906–1945)
LAWYER, EDITOR, SOLDIER AND FREEDOM FIGHTER. A LAW GRADUATE OF UST WHERE HE TAUGHT FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND LATER BECAME EDITOR OF THE COMMONWEALTH. WHEN THE PACIFIC WAR BROKE OUT, HE JOINED THE USAFFE SOUTH IN BATAAN. SUFFERED IN THE DEATH MARCH AND AT CAPAS CONCENTRATION CAMP. AFTER HIS RELIEF ON JUNE 30, 1942, HE JOINED THE ALLIED INTELLIGENCE BUREAU AND BECAME COMMANDING OFFICER OF THE MANILA UNIT. HE WAS FATALLY WOUNDED AT THE UST MAIN GATE WHILE GUIDING THE AMERICAN FORCES TO LIBERATE THE U.S.T. INTERNMENT CAMP ON FEBRUARY 3, 1945 AND SUBSEQUENTLY DIED IN LEGARDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ON FEBRUARY 10, 1945. HE WAS AWARDED A BRONZE MEDAL BY THE AMERICAN ARMY, AND A MEDAL OF FREEDOM BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, 1948.
