TACLOBAN CITY — Immortality comes to a little-known war veteran who fought during World War I under the United States Army after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. signed a proclamation renaming the provincial camp of Philippine National Police in Biliran in his name.

Marcos issued Proclamation 430, which Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin signed on 20 December renaming Biliran Police Provincial Office as Camp Private Andres P. Dadizon, Police Regional Office 8.

Historian professor Rolando Borrinaga — in an article published in 2017 — disclosed that Dadizon, who is a native of Biliran province, died fighting for the US Army in the battlefields of France in 1917. Dadizon was said to have carried the US flag over to the German line during a raging battle in France in 1917.

"Although seriously wounded, Dadizon was able to plant the flag in front of the enemy's trenches. This display of courage was said to have bolstered the morale of his comrades, who fought fiercely until they had overrun the German position," Borrinaga said.