Bragee Arcilo is the only female recognized on the plaque near the Waikiki War Memorial Natatorium for dying in service of her country in World War I.
Background
There is a gravestone in Scholfield Barracks Post Cemetery for Bragee Arcilo of Co. M, First Hawaii Infantry. According to the U.S. National Cemetery Internment Control Forms, the Bragee Arcilo buried at Schofield Barracks was a Private in Company M who died on December 18, 1918.
According to the Hawaii Death Certificate for the Bragee Arcilo buried at Schofield Barracks on December 17, 1918, this death was not of a soldier, but of an infant girl only two months and eight days old. She was born to Gerardo and Columbia Arcilo in Honolulu and died of Pneumonia at Schofield Barracks, where her father was a soldier in the Army
Sources:
U.S., National Cemetery Interment Control Forms, 1928-1962
Hawaii, U.S., Death Certificates and Indexes, 1841-1942 for Bragee Arcilo
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