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 It has been my privilege to witness in the last two years some of 
 the bravest and most heroic deeds that have been recorded in the 
 history of the great war. And this book is written to preserve the 
 record of Iowa's gallant and heroic dead. 
 
 Often in reading the story of our Civil War, I have longed for a book that would 
 give me the account and the picture of our national heroes in the great war of the 
 past. I am hoping that within the pages of this book, as the reader looks into the 
 faces of these young men and reads the story of their glorious death, he may find the 
 inspiration to higher achievement, to a greater patriotism and the dedication of 
 himself to the common good of his fellows. 
 
 I am aware that mistakes have been made and that many a fellow's story is 
 very incomplete but the difficulties of securing positive information have been enor- 
 mous. Wounded boys were sent hundreds of miles to the rear and were never heard 
 from again until long after they were dead and buried and oft times in a later battle 
 the ones who could have told of their gallant deeds were wounded or killed. 
 
 Of the men whose deeds 
 make up the scene of this book, 
 I can add no word that will add to 
 their splendid record. I can only 
 hope that the reader may receive 
 some of the same inspiration that 
 has come to the writer as he pre- 
 pared this book for publication. 
 Gloriously they fought and glori- 
 ously they fell. In the morning of 
 youth, when hope and the love of 
 life was strong within their veins 
 and desire pulsated thru their be- 
 ing, they heard the call of their 
 country, they followed the flag. 
 They sleep in France tonight, 
 America's gallant sons, her bravest 
 and her best, sacrificed on the al- 
 tar of the World's Liberty, they 
 tell us as nothing else can, THE 
 PRICE OF OUR HERITAGE. 
 
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I wish to acknowledge my personal debt to the following 
 persons for their help and aid in preparing this work : 
 
 To Colonel Mathew A. Tinley, Colonel Ernest R. Bennett, 
 Chaplain Henry B. Strickland, Captain William R. Tucker, 
 Captain Charles Riley and Lieutenant John Ball, who have 
 aided in every way in the gathering of the facts of this book. 
 
 To E. T. Meredith, F. H. Luthe, James Weaver, Scott Brad- 
 ford, C. L. Herring, M, Zinsmaster, N. M. Wilchinski, Chase 
 & West, Utica Clothing Company, Davidson's Furniture Com- 
 pany, Davidson Bros. Company, Clemens Auto Company, 
 Mandelbaum & Sons and Des Moines National Bank, who 
 made the publishing of this book possible. 
 
 To Miss Sunny Sutherland, Chester R. Hartzell, C. R. 
 Johnson and others who furnished one or more pictures for 
 the book. 
 
 To James L. Kibbee and Governor Harding whose advice and 
 criticism has been of great assistance to the writer, I ac- 
 knowledge my indebtedness and gratitude. 
 
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 GENERAL JAMES RUSH LINCOLN 
 
 Formerly Cotmnander 1st Brigade, Iowa National Guard. Colonel of 
 3rd Iowa from 1900 to 1909 
 
 
BACK in 1859 was formed at Council Bluffs, Iowa, a military organi- 
 zation for the purpose of affording protection to the settlers of north- 
 western Iowa and the portions nearest Iowa of those states which 
 bound the great land of corn. Protection was necessary, for not far to the 
 north were the Sioux Indians, not far to the east and north were the Sac 
 and Foxes, two races of Redmenwho were not at all times in those days 
 peacefully inclined. But mere tribes of Indians were not the only rea- 
 sons why western Iowa and its contingent territories decided upon a mili- 
 tary defense. Men of a paler race, a race which it pleases us most of the 
 time to call white, wandered without the law in those lands. Protection 
 from them also was needed, and so the company at Council Bluffs was 
 formed. 
 
 When our bewhiskered forefathers gathered together in the 
 "Bluffs" sixty years ago, they worked better than they knew. For in the 
 years that have followed, that organization which they formed has done 
 much for the freedom of the world. Its original task of defending the 
 Missouri river frontier has long since become in a military sense, the 
 most minor part of its work. Two years after it had been formed, two 
 years which were crowded with war and rumors of war (it was in those 
 days that the pre-Civil War battles in Kansas and lower Nebraska took 
 place) it became the nucleus of the Iowa Volunteer regiments, which 
 made such a name for themselves in the great war of the Rebellion. 
 
 It is not the purpose of this book to give our readers a complete his- 
 tory of the regiment, which is its subject. It is the purpose to write just 
 a little appreciation of the members who have passed through it, so that 
 those for whom many of them gave their lives and all of them offered 
 theirs, may appreciate that which has been saved for them. 
 
 After the Civil War the Iowa soldiers returned to their homes and 
 gave themselves to civilian pursuits. But in their leisure time, when they 
 might have been playing, they still remembered their country. The old 
 organization was kept alive, so that today we can trace the regiment with- 
 out difficulty to meetings for drill in the days when young men wore 
 whiskers. 
 
 We'll skip a few years — few in a historical sense, yet a generation in 
 men's lives. In 1888 it was decided that more compactness was needed 
 in the state military force of Iowa, so a merger of the Third Iowa Regi- 
 ment and the Fifth Iowa Regiment of Infantry was arranged. The whole 
 became the Third Iowa. 
 
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 COLONEL JOHN C. LOPER 
 
 Colonel of 51st Iowa Volunteers. Served as Colonel of 3rd Iowa 
 from 1897 until November of 1899. 
 
 
 The Old Third Iowa, known as the 51st Iowa Volunteers, in camp at Presidio, California 
 
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Ten years was spent in weekly and bi-weekly drilling. Occasionally 
 the men would see a little active service in riot duty ; now and then a 
 military encampment was held. 
 
 In 1898 war again descended upon the country. A call for volunteers 
 was made. The services of Iowa's guardsmen were ready, and, without 
 hesitation, offered. On April 26, the call into service for the Iowa soldiers 
 came. The state fairgrounds at Des Moines was their assembling point, 
 and it was there on May 30, that they ceased to be state troops, and en- 
 tered into Federal Service as the Fifty-first Iowa Volunteers. 
 
 On June 5, they moved to San Francisco on their way to the Phil- 
 ippines. For a month they laid in the famously unhealthy camp called 
 Merritt near the Golden Gate. Then they moved to the Presidio. It was 
 from here on November 2, they sailed aboard the troopship Pennsylvania, 
 a former Alaskan freighter. A few days later they stopped at Honolulu 
 for a day or so, and then continued their trip to Manila. 
 
 Actual fighting, as every soldier will testify, is just a minor incident 
 of war. The hardships of an army come in the monotony of waiting, the 
 heavy marches without food, the cold nights without shelter, the rain, and 
 the mud. The Iowa boys in 1898 had experienced many of the hardest 
 trials of soldiering even before leaving the state, but before they stepped 
 on land again, they saw more. 
 
 In Manila Bay, the Pennsylvania laid from December 7 until Decem- 
 ber 26, with its load of soldiers from the middle western prairies. Each 
 day brought rumors of disembarking, each day saw former rumors proven 
 false. At last, on December 26, the Pennsylvania weighed anchor, and 
 with the Eighteenth Infantry, the Sixth Field Artillery and several other 
 regular army units, the Iowa boys sailed to the harbor of lUio in the Island 
 of Panay. The troopship's convoy was the B. S. S. Baltimore. 
 
 Again a long, tiresome wait. Arriving at Illio on December 31, they 
 laid in the harbor until January 30, 1899, when they again sailed for 
 Manila. February 2, after the longest stay on shipboard ever recorded in 
 the world's history — a long distance record which even the history of the 
 great war hasn't beaten — the troops were unloaded in the Island of Luzon, 
 just as the Philippine Insurrection was breaking out. 
 
 We'll skip their campaign in the Philippines, although it deserves much 
 mention. Suffice to say that the soldiers began fighting the minute they 
 set foot on land, and, before they departed September 22, 1899, they had 
 fought and won seventeen battles for the old Flag. Seventeen battles, 
 v/ith the long, dreary nights of outpost duty, guarding against treacherous 
 foes, against savages of the night. We skip it, but we shouldn't. 
 
 We're going home ! Nobody but a man who has soldiered in a strange 
 land knows or appreciates the music of those words. We're going home! 
 That was the cry of the Third Iowa Infantry, camouflaged as the Fifty-first 
 Volunteers, September 22, 1899. And another historic sea-trip was begun. 
 
FIRST LIEUT. ERNEST R. BENNETT 
 51st Iowa Volunteers, 1898 
 
 On the way back the troopers visited Japan. First they put into 
 Nagasaki, then they passed through the Inland Seas to Yokohama, where 
 they laid for a short time, during which many had an opportunity of 
 visiting Tokio. For a time it promised to be more than the last stage of 
 the trip to 'Frisco. For a time it promised to be the last journey on this 
 earth, 
 
 A short ways out of Yokohama, going east, the troopship ran into the 
 tail end of a typhoon, — one of those whipping, vicious storms for which 
 the far eastern seas are notorious. For several days the ship was torn by 
 the elements, whipped back and forth on the water like a ship of cork. 
 But she weathered the gale, and emerged victorious, though terrifically 
 battered. 
 
 News of their sailing from Japan reached the Iowa homes long before 
 the boys. With it came the news of the terrific storm into which their 
 ship had sailed. No word of the transport, however, sifted out of the 
 western mists. The ship became due, then overdue, then lost. Iowa 
 waited patiently, hoping that the boys would come through. 
 
 At last a day of prayer was set aside in the commonwealth — a day 
 to be devoted by the folks at home for supplication to the Almighty for 
 the safe return of their warriors. A Sunday afternoon, October 22, was 
 the day chosen. And, as Iowa was praying, into the Golden Gate two 
 thousand five hundred miles away, rode the ship with the men for whose 
 safety she prayed. 
 
On November 2, 1899, Iowa once more had the opportunity to wel- 
 come her boys of the Old Third Iowa back into civil life after they had 
 helped win for their flag. 
 
 Now again, we'll let the time slide by. The Fifty-first Iowa Volun- 
 teers became once more the Third Regiment of Infantry. The men who 
 had fought in the ranks in the Philippines passed up the ladder into com- 
 missioned officers. Ernest R. Bennett of Des Moines, a first lieutenant in 
 the Antipodes, became, eventually, commanding officer of the regiment. 
 Lieut Mathew A. Tinley of the famous old Company L of Council Bluffs, 
 became major, then lieutenant colonel. Guy S. Brewer of Des Moines, a 
 corporal in 1898 climbed up the ladder to major while a brother corporal, 
 Edward O. Fleur of Des Moines went, by stages, to captain. Dan New- 
 quist, from mechanic went to lieutenant. 
 
 From 1900 until 1916 were years of peace in Iowa. The Third Iowa, 
 as of old, however, gave its playtime to drill. Each summer there was a 
 month of encampments, practicing the business of war. Weekly the men 
 gathered in their home armories to give a night for their country in pre- 
 paring for her defense. 
 
 In 1916, two years after the great v.rar had broken loose in Europe, 
 the same sort of clouds which had obscured the European continent from 
 all that is good, started gathering to the south of the United States. War 
 with Mexico was at hand — acts of war had already been committed. 
 
 In June came the call for soldiers. Americans knew where to go for 
 men in a crisis — she had had experience before, and the National Guards- 
 men were summoned. 
 
 Iowa's civilian soldiers gathered at Camp Dodge, their encampment 
 station northwest of Des Moines, late in June. A month was spent in 
 equipping, preliminary drilling, policing, patrolling began. Nine months 
 they served, giving protection to Uncle Sam's southern boundaries. 
 
 Ask the men of the Third Iowa of their service on the border, and they 
 will tell you of maneuvers, "northers," sand, dirt, lizards and the rest. But 
 ask the higher officers and they will tell you of record hikes, of exemplary 
 camp sanitation, of the best work to be expected of soldiers. 
 
 There were rumors and hard work, there was the great storm of 
 August 15. There was much to make the life hard, yet more or less inter- 
 esting, before those pleasant words "We're going home" once more sound- 
 ed throughout the Iowa camp. Early in 1917 those words became true; 
 and the regiment returned again to its home state. Mustering out came 
 February 20, but already the country was drifting closer towards the 
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ON APRIL 6 when America declared war upon Germany, the officers 
 of the National Guard of Iowa at once began the work of getting 
 their units ready for the part they would be called upon to play. 
 Enlistments were rapid and before the time came that the guard 
 was formally called into service on July 15, every company had its full 
 quota of men and were besieged by eager applicants for the privilege of 
 becoming a member of one of the three regiments of infantry that com- 
 posed the First, Second and Third Iowa Guard Regiments. 
 
 When the guard was called, every company was full of eager, adven- 
 ture-loving young men, who were anxious for but one thing ; the privilege 
 of crossing the waters and getting a chance to fight the enemy who had so 
 horribly mutilated the Belgian nation and had outraged and trampled 
 under foot the sacred rights of all humanity. 
 
 There was a great deal of rivalry between the three regiments as to 
 which was the better fitted and equipped and would be the first overseas. 
 Day by day in the different towns in which the companies were stationed 
 and at the camp at the fair grounds, the companies were drilling hard to 
 prepare themselves for the days that lay ahead. 
 
 In the latter part of July our companies were all assembled at the fair 
 f^rounds and went into camp under the old amphitheatre and in Machin" 
 ery Hall, and on August 5, they were examined by federal officers and 
 formally drafted by a proclamation of the President into the federal serv- 
 ice. 
 
 Vaccination for small pox, inoculation for typhoid and para-typhoid in 
 the hot days of August was one of the first of our many disagreeable ex- 
 periences in the army. 
 
 About the middle of August, Colonel Bennett, Major Conkling, Major 
 Brewer and Major Fairchild came into camp with smiles clear across their 
 faces. They were bubbling over with gladness and enthusiasm. We tried 
 all afternoon to find out what made them so joyous, but not a word would 
 they say until the following morning when the announcement was made 
 that the old Third Iowa Infantry had been chosen as one of the four regi- 
 ments of infantry that was to make up the Forty-second or Rainbow Divi- 
 sion, which was then being formed and which was destined to sail imme- 
 diately for overseas service. 
 
 When the news was announced to the regiment, a happier g 
 prouder lot of men would have been hard to 
 have found anywhere. We were to be known 
 no longer as the Third Iowa Infantry but as 
 the One Hundred Sixty-eighth Infantry. The 
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 that the men to bring us to our new strength were to be drawn from the 
 other two guard units, the First and Second, seventy-six men being drawn 
 from each company of each of these splendid organizations. The boys of 
 the First and Second, as well as the Third had made a reputation 
 for themselves on the border and we were proud indeed to have them with 
 us to enter into the formation of the 168th Infantry. 
 
 A few days later these fellows escorted by their band came swinging 
 up through the gates of the fair grounds, playing their regimental march 
 and marching proudly. Our band played a welcoming piece and with 
 deafening cheers they were received and became a part of the Rainbow 
 Division. 
 
 This brought the strength of each individual company to two hundred 
 and fifty men, and our battalions to one thousand men. A splendid lot 
 of young fellows there were, as in the morning at reveille or in the evening 
 at retreat, they lined up for the military ceremony. Earnest work was 
 done in the few days they remained at the fair grounds before we were to 
 commence on that long journey to France. 
 
 On September 9 with thousands of our friends gathered about us, our 
 first companies with the colonel's staff loaded on the train at the fair 
 grounds at 5 o'clock and started eastward, where most of the rest of the 
 division were already assembled in Camp Mills. With something gripping 
 our throats, which we could not swallow, struggling to hold back the tear- 
 drops from our eyes, we stood upon the back of the train and watched the 
 crowd of folks who came to see us off, become a blur and then indistinct 
 in the distance. Our journey had begun. 
 
 Four days later we landed at Camp Mills, where we stayed until Octo- 
 ber 18, when we were loaded on the President Grant and with fifty-five 
 hundred men on board, just as the sun was setting on the New York 
 skyline. We slipped out of the harbor at 11 o'clock that night. For five 
 days we journeyed with the rest of the convoy; then the boilers of the boat 
 gave out and we were forced to return. We went back to Camp Mills and 
 on November 14 again started across, this time on the S. S. Celtic, the Bal- 
 tic and the Aurania. 
 
 Seventeen days later after being chased by a submarine into Belfast 
 Harbor, we landed at Liverpool, and were loaded on the little trains and 
 moved to Winchester, England. Here we spent seven days in camp, then 
 moved down to the harbor at Southhampton and slipped across the chan- 
 nel during the night, the search lights across 
 the English shore illuminating the sky as they 
 searched for those who almost nightly came 
 to bomb London. 
 
 At 4 o'clock the next morning we landed 
 at Le Havre, France, where we stayed for 
 thirty-six hours. Then began our journey for 
 two days and three nights in French cars, 
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 where we stayed until January 27, our Second Battalion under Major 
 Stanley being assigned to duty with the school of Langres. In the cold, 
 heatless attics or in the stoveless barracks our boys suffered much from the 
 cold, wading in the mud or snow out in the wet fields to drill, coming in 
 with wet feet and no place to dry them. A great number sickened and 
 died. An epidemic of scarlet fever, spinal meningitis and measles broke 
 out among our troops and we went into quarantine for many days. 
 
 In the latter part of January we moved to Ormancey from which 
 place we started toward the line early in February. After a few days' 
 journey we reached Gerberviller and marched from there to Baccarat, 
 twenty-six kilometers, where we stayed for two days. We were reviewed 
 by General Segonne. From there we moved to Pexonne, where we es- 
 tablished our regimental headquarters. On the morning of February 23, 
 we were ready for our first hitch in the trenches. 
 
 Looking back over those days when we moved from Des Moines to 
 France, going through all the hardships and exposures which the regiment 
 endured, I am surprised that there were not more of these young boys, 
 who made up our regiment, who did not sicken and die before we arrived. 
 
 The history and pictures of the men who died before they reached the 
 battle line are herein described. They are as truly our heroes as the men 
 who fought and distinguished th emselves at the front. They enlisted for 
 the same purpose and tried as much as any of us to enter into the con- 
 flict and to play their part in the battle but fate had willed it otherwise, 
 theirs was not to be a glorious death on the 
 battle field, but to lie in the hospitals and 
 succumb to the power of disease. From the 
 first boy who died before we left Des Moines 
 to the last one who was killed on our way to 
 the front, we honor their memory as much as 
 we do any of the others, whose heroic deaths 
 fill the pages of this book. 
 
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 PRITCHARD, CHARLES 
 
 Private Company B 
 
 Killed September 6, 1917. Buried 
 at Van Meter, Iowa, 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Pritch- 
 ard, Van Meter, Iowa. 
 
 Private Pritchard was killed in 
 an automobile accident near Des 
 Moines, Iowa. The car struck 
 a dog and overturned, pinning 
 him and his brother underneath 
 the car about 9:00 P. M. The 
 boys were found in the morning 
 Charles was dead, and his 
 brother slightly injured. 
 
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 BARBER, CLYDE 
 
 Private Company L 
 
 Died of spinal meningitis, Octo- 
 ber 2, 1917, at Camp Mills, New 
 York City. Buried at Council 
 Bluffs, Iowa. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Barber, 
 Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
 
 Private Barber was a good sol- 
 dier with bright prospects. While 
 in Camp Mills he contracted 
 spinal meningitis and died with- 
 in six days, saying before he 
 died, "Oh, for one more day 
 back in the old home town with 
 the folks before I go " 
 
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 WOOTEN, HARRY 
 
 Private Company F 
 Died December 10, 1917, two days 
 before we landed. 
 Buried at a French port. 
 
 Private Wooten was taken ill 
 with the flu and contracted 
 pneumonia, from which disease 
 he succumbed while at sea. His 
 body was carried to shore with 
 them and buried at the French 
 port of Le Havre. 
 Harry was an earnest fellow, 
 very devoted to his work. His 
 whole thought and wish was, to 
 live and to play his part with the 
 regiment in the war, but fate had 
 willed otherwise. 
 
 ARKLESE, THOMAS 
 
 Private Company H 
 
 Died at Hoboken, New Jersey, 
 of acute peritonitis on October 
 20, 1917. , 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Arklese, 
 Albia, Iowa. ' 
 
 Took sick just before the regi- 
 ment sailed for France and died 
 two days after we had departed. 
 
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 Private Company K 
 
 Died at Camp Mills, New York. 
 iNovemDer 19, 1917. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. T. M. John- 
 son, Prescott, Iowa. 
 
 William Johnson took sick with 
 the measles, which was quickly 
 followed by pneumonia, of which 
 he died five days after the second 
 time the regiment embarked for 
 France. 
 
 MATTINGLY, JAMES 
 
 Private Company I 
 
 Died at Camp Mills, November 
 19, 1917. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Mat- 
 tingly, Ames, Iowa. 
 
 Private Mattingly enlisted at| 
 the home station of the Second > 
 Iowa Infantry, and later was 
 transferred to the 168th Infantry. 
 He went with us to Camp Mills, 
 where he took sick and died, the 
 first man from Company I. 
 
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 Private Company K 
 
 Died December 13, 1917, at Liv- 
 erpool, England. 
 
 Buried at Liverpool, England. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. M. Miller, 
 Orient, Iowa. 
 
 Pvt. Miller was sick of scarlet 
 fever when he landed and was 
 placed in a hospital at Liverpool, 
 where he died on the above men- 
 tioned date, after the regiment 
 had departed for France. 
 
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 COONS, EARL 
 
 Private Company K 
 
 Died at sea, December 1, 1917. 
 
 Buried at Liverpool, England. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Coons, 
 Prescott, Iowa. 
 
 Earl took sick about three days 
 off the English coast while 
 aboard the S. S. Celtic, and died 
 just one hour before the boat 
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 Pvf. First Class, Sanitary Detach. 
 Died in the hospital at Neufcha- 
 teau, France, December 23. 1917, 
 of scarlet fever and pneumonia. 
 Buried in Neufchateau Ceme- 
 tery, Grave No. 23. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Truax, 
 Des Moines, Iowa. 
 He was a graduate of Des 
 Moines High School, Keosauqua 
 and Capital City Commercial 
 Colleges. 
 
 Pvt. Truax was ill when we ar- 
 rived in England of la grippe. 
 He stayed with the regiment 
 when we left for France and be- 
 came worse on the trip from Le 
 Havre to Rimaucourt. His last 
 words were, "Tell Mother I died 
 as a soldier." 
 
 
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 Private Sanitary Detachment 
 Died in hospital at Liverpool, 
 England, December 23, 1917. 
 Buried at Liverpool, England. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Will- 
 cox, Winterset, Iowa. 
 
 When the Second Battalion 
 sailed for France, Willcox, 
 though ill, persuaded the Medi- 
 cal Officer to let him sail with 
 them. He took sick on board 
 the ship and was sent to the hos- 
 pital at Liverpool, where he 
 died. 
 
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 Private Company A 
 
 Died in the hospital at Winches- 
 England, of pneumonia, 
 
 ter, 
 December 25 
 
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 1917. 
 
 Buried at Winchester, England. 
 
 Born May 10, 1896; died Decem- 
 ber 25, 1917. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis 
 Schroeder, Dubuque, Iowa. 
 
 Schroeder was a member of the 
 First Iowa Infantry and was 
 transferred to the One Hundred 
 Sixty-eighth Infantry. He was 
 left in the hospital at Winchester 
 when the regiment sailed for 
 France. 
 
 ROOSE, HERMAN A. 
 
 Private Company B 
 
 Died December 31, 1917, at 
 Chaumont, France, of pneu- 
 monia. Buried at Chaumont. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Roose, 
 Odebolt, Iowa. 
 
 Private Roose was the first man 
 that Company B lost after we 
 arrived in France. While the 
 regiment was at Rimaucourt, he 
 was taken ill with pneumonia 
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 Private Company M 
 
 Died January 5, 1918 at Base 
 Hospital No. 15, Chaumont, 
 France, of scarlet fever. 
 
 Buried at Chaumont. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Wil- 
 son, Elliot, Iowa. 
 
 Born May 5, 1899. 
 
 Enlisted in Company M June 
 
 Wilson was the first original Co. 
 M. man to lose his life in France. 
 He was a good soldier and liked 
 by all his comrades. 
 
 
 Second Lieutenant Company L 
 Killed January 17th at Gondre- 
 court, France. 
 Buried at Gondrecourt. 
 Son of Mrs. Mabel F. Garreis- 
 sen. New York City. 
 Lieutenant McCormick was acci- 
 dentally killed by the explosion 
 of a sack of hand grenades, 
 which he was carrying during 
 a maneuver of the grenade 
 class of the First Corps School. 
 He was the first man of our 
 regiment to be killed in France. 
 His unselfish devotion to, and 
 the love for his men during the 
 hard winter months of 1917 and 
 1918 proved his true worth as 
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 Private Headquarters Company 
 
 Died January 20, 1918 at Chau- 
 mont, France, Hospital No. 16. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Was- 
 mer, Le Mars, Iowa. 
 
 During the severe winter at 
 Rimaucourt our boys were ex- 
 posed to severe wet, cold 
 weather. Unused to the climate 
 many sickened and died. Was- 
 mer was the first man of head- 
 quarters company to die. 
 
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 Private Company I 
 
 Died January 24, 1918 at Base 
 
 Hospital No. 
 
 France. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. E. McSor- 
 ley, Council Bluffs, Iowa. ' 
 
 Private McSorley enlisted in k 
 Company I at the home station 
 and journeyed with the regiment 
 to France. He was taken ill 
 while we were at Rimaucourt and 
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 Died February 15, 1918 at Blois, 
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 Son of Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Bul- 
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 Facts of his death unknown. 
 
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 we arrived at Ormancy, France. 
 
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 Private Company A 
 
 Died March 1st in Base Hospital 
 No. 24 at Langres, France. 
 
 Buried at Langres, France. 
 
 Son of Thomas Johnson, Lori- 
 mor, Iowa. 
 
 Private Worth developed an ab- 
 scess in the left ear just before 
 his company went into the 
 trenches ; this resulted in blood 
 poisoning which caused his 
 death. 
 
 Edward Worth was one of our 
 good soldiers, whose unfortunate 
 death deprived him of the part 
 he hoped to play in the battle. 
 
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 Private Headquarters Company 
 
 Died February 17, 1918. 
 
 Buried at Neufchateau, Base 
 Hospital No. 66. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Anna Reymer, Mc- 
 Keesport, Pa. 
 
 While going for the first time to 
 the front the troops were moved 
 in the usual manner in box cars. 
 Reymer and a number of others 
 got off the cars and ran up and 
 down to warm themselves ; in at- 
 tempting to reboard the moving 
 cars he fell under the wheels 
 and both legs were cut off. He 
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 Private Company I 
 Died March 23rd, 1918. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cal- 
 houn, Allendale, Mo. 
 Private Calhoun was injured 
 while his company were loading 
 their ship. He was sent to Camp 
 Merritt, Hoboken, New Jersey, 
 in which hospital he died on 
 March 23rd. At the time of his 
 death he was a Sergeant of Com- 
 pany I. 
 
 He was very anxious to join his 
 company in France and do his 
 part for humanity, but this was 
 not his privilege, but his memory 
 is honored as much as those who 
 gave their lives in France. 
 Born July 29, 1895. 
 
 SMITH, BERT L. 
 
 Private Company K 
 
 Died March 30, 1918 of masto- 
 ditis at Base Hospital No. 15, 
 Chaumont. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Simon 
 Smith, Elk Point, South Dakota. 
 
 Private Smith went to France 
 with the Company but never had 
 a chance to go to the trenches. 
 He went to the hospital during 
 the fierce winter months while 
 the company were at Rimau- 
 court. He died in the hospital 
 at Chaumont several weeks later. 
 
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 Private Company C 
 
 Died January 8, 1918. 
 
 Relative's address, W. W. Par- 
 ker, 704 North Division Street, 
 Creston, lov^a. 
 
 Private Parker was taken sick 
 shortly after our arrival in 
 France, sent to the Base Hospi- 
 tal No. 15 at Chaumont, -where 
 he died of pneumonia after a 
 short illness. 
 
 Parker enlisted in the National 
 Guards at Creston, Iowa, and 
 was one of the first men to an- 
 swer the call. He was a great 
 friend to all who knew him and 
 / his sudden death came as a 
 /^severe blow to his comrades. 
 
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WHEN we started for the front, we were told by the officers of the 
 division that it was to be only a training period of about ten days. 
 We were ordered to leave our baggage at Ormancey, which we did, 
 expecting to return shortly and get it. We never saw the baggage any 
 more until the next January when it was shipped to us up in Germany, 
 some eleven months later. 
 
 The history of the One Hundred Sixty-eighth Infantry between Feb- 
 ruary 23 and June 19 has to do with what is called a "training period." 
 Here under the critical eyes of the French officers, who, I do not think 
 had a very high opinion up to this time of the American's fighting ability, 
 for they knew we were not well trained when we began our first experi- 
 ence in battle. We entered in with the French units at Badonvillier, one- 
 half platoon serving man for man with the French for a few days' instruc- 
 tion, then full companies were put in full command and finally a battalion 
 took over the regimental front, and our first experience in holding the line 
 had begun. For a few days everything went quietly, our boys going again 
 and again into "No Man's Land" on patrols, night and day, and became 
 well acquainted with the terrain in their sector. 
 
 We were inexperienced in battle and the officers of our regiment and 
 men were wondering just how we would act when the first attack was 
 launched upon us, as we felt sure it soon would be. Our methods of 
 fighting were somewhat different from that of the French, and the enemy 
 was soon to know that a different bunch of troops were in the sector op- 
 posite him, and he began at once to plan for a raid to find out who they 
 were. 
 
 On March 5 at 4 :30 o'clock in the morning with a sudden roar their 
 artillery and trench mortars began the artillery preparation for the raid. 
 They tore our trenches literally to pieces on the left one-half of our sector, 
 occupied by Company B of Des Moines and Company D of Centerville with 
 the Machine Gun company of Des Moines supporting them, while the 
 Stokes mortar platoon was of Headquarters company. Companies A and C 
 were in the second line in support. For one hour and thirty-three minutes 
 the roar of shells of both the enemy and our own literally shook the earth. 
 Then the raiders came over, but so well were our troops supported by 
 their artillery and machine guns and so splendidly and heroically did they 
 fight that only once did the raiders of the Eleventh Bavarians get into our 
 trenches, and these were cleared out of our 
 trenches with scant ceremony. Eighteen of 
 our men were killed and some thirty-eight 
 wounded in this raid but not one was captured. 
 
 For their steadiness under fire and the way 
 in which they fought in repulsing this attack, 
 they were honored by the French Corps by 
 three different platoons being given citations 
 and awarded the Croix de Guerre. 
 
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Captain Harry C. McHenry and the eighteen boys that died with him 
 did much by their heroic fighting to give us confidence in ourselves and 
 make us know that we were able to meet the Germans and master them 
 in battle. 
 
 Two days later two great trucks, draped with French and American 
 flags, escorted by soldiers from the regiment, and a large escort of French 
 soldiers, passed through the streets of Baccarat following the band which 
 played with muffled tread and wound our way up to the little cemetery 
 where our first dead, who fell in the conflict with the foe, were quietly 
 laid to rest and General Segonne, the French General made the following 
 address : 
 
 "It is with deep emotion that in the name of your comrades of 
 the French Army, I come today to honor the remains of Captain 
 McHenry and of the brave American soldiers who died gloriously 
 at the hands of the enemy on the night of the 5th of March, when 
 they were defending with tenacity and energy the labors which had 
 been entrusted to them. 
 
 The conduct of the American troops since their entry into the 
 sector of Baccarat, their strength under fire, their ardor in the con- 
 flict, is, in every respect worthy of praise. 
 
 It is in memory of Captain McHenry, it is in memory of the 
 deceased of the American regiments of Infantry and Artillery, these 
 men I intend to glorify. 
 
 The noble American blood that has just flowed in the ancient 
 territory of Lorraine, the time-honored battlefield, is a stronger tie 
 between our two armies. 
 
 In the folds of the American and French flags flows the same 
 ideals of justice, loyalty, of liberty and of victory. The sacrifice 
 generates immortality. The shade of these two flags will be soft 
 to the departed heroes. 
 
 Captain McHenry, American soldiers, sleep in peace ; the grand 
 sleep of glory; you will not be forgotten and you will be avenged." 
 
 Never shall I forget the scene when the first crosses were placed 
 above the graves of these, our dead, the first installment of the price that 
 we were to pay to protect our heritage from the aggression and domination 
 of the war-mad Huns. Sleeping there beside their comrades we left 
 them and went back to our task, determined to carry on the work they had 
 begun. 
 
 Three different raids were carried out upon the Boche trenches dur- 
 ing the month of March, in which we raided 
 the German lines again and again and drove 
 them out of their trenches, killing most of them 
 and ourselves suffering very small losses. 
 
 On March 22 we were relieved and 
 marched out and back for two days, resting 
 at Jeansmenil. We received the news that 
 
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the British line had given away at Amiens and we were ordered to return 
 to the trenches from which we came and take up our old position and re- 
 lieve the French divisions for duty in helping the British to re-establish 
 their line. We marched back, came to the line, taking the same positions, 
 occupying the right of the divisional front, the rest of the division being 
 moved in by our side now and we stayed here until the 18th day of June, 
 During this time we suffered a severe gas attack on May 27, when over 
 four hundred men were gassed, forty-seven of them being killed. A few 
 days later another gas attack followed by a raid on the Chamois Sector, 
 which had for its object the capture of American prisoners. A lively fight 
 occurred and two of our men were killed and three wounded but the only 
 prisoners that were taken were German prisoners; four dead and ten 
 prisoners were left in our lines at the close of the raid, while many more 
 of the Boche lay dead in "No Man's Land." 
 
 In these four months of fighting we lost more than one hundred killed 
 and between six and seven hundred wounded, and when we marched away 
 long rows of American graves lying beside their French comrades, made 
 the ground of Lorraine hallowed forever to us. There many of our best 
 buddies sleep among the hills of Lorraine, our second installment of the 
 price that we were to pay to protect the inherited rights of mankind. 
 
 The French peasant wanders there today out from the little village 
 Pexonne to the town of Baccarat and stands 
 with bowed head before the little crosses that 
 mark the graves where his American friends, 
 coming five thousand miles to fight with him 
 against the common foes of civilization, sleep. 
 
 The following is a list of the names and 
 faces of those officers and men who sleep in 
 Lorraine. 
 
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 MAYLAND, LEWIS 101923 
 
 Private Company I 
 
 Died March 4, 1918, at Hospital 
 No. 26, Baccarat, France. 
 
 Buried March 7th, American 
 Grave No. 1. 
 
 Relative's address: Mrs. J. C, 
 Sovda, 721 Grand View Avenue, 
 Des Moines, Iowa. 
 
 Private Mayland was taken ill 
 shortly after we arrived at the 
 front, and died the day before 
 the regiment's first battle. He 
 was the first Hardin County man 
 to die. 
 
 He was born at Ellsworth, Iowa, 
 December, 1892. 
 
 He had a quiet disposition and 
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 Captain Company B 
 Killed March 5, 1918 at Badon- 
 vilUer, France, in the front line 
 trenches. 
 
 Buried March 7th, Officers' Row, 
 Baccarat Cemetery. 
 Son of Mrs. Lou C. McHcnry, 
 Des Moines, Iowa. 
 Captain McHenry was the young- 
 est captain in the regiment, and 
 was the first 168th officer killed 
 in battle. 
 
 During the bombardment Cap- 
 tain McHenry with Sergeant 
 Grahl went through the trenches 
 seeing that his men were in a 
 place of shelter. As they passed 
 by the sergeant's quarters, the 
 shelling was so intense they 
 stepped inside for a moment, 
 when a large caliber explosive 
 shell destroyed the shelter, kill- 
 ing him instantly. 
 
 
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 Private Company D 
 
 Killed March 5, 1918 at Badon- 
 villier in the front line trench. 
 
 Relative's address; Mrs, Hattie 
 Elwood, Centerville, Iowa, 
 
 He and Private Rogers -were on 
 duty at their post. During 
 heavy shelling a shell lit by his 
 side and he was blown to atoms. 
 No part of him could be found 
 to bury. He was killed in the 
 regiment's first battle. 
 
 SMITH, WILLIAM T. 100781 
 
 Private Company D 
 
 Killed March 5, 1918 at Badon- 
 villier, in the front line trench. 
 
 Buried March 7th. Grave No. 15, 
 Baccarat. 
 
 Relative's address : Walter 
 
 Smith, Northwood, Iowa. 
 
 Private Smith was a member of 
 the Second Iowa Infantry, and 
 was transferred to the 168th 
 Infantry on August 20th. 
 
 During the bombardment, he and 
 his companions were in a small 
 shelter when a shell crashed 
 through, crushing him to death. 
 He died at his post. 
 
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 Sergeant Headquarters Company 
 
 Killed March 5, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Wed- 
 ding, Webster City, Iowa. 
 
 Sergeant Wedding was a member 
 of the gun crew, which was hit 
 by a German 210, which killed' 
 seven men of Headquarters Com- 
 pany. Sometime later his body 
 was found and buried on the 
 hillside near. The men of his 
 platoon built a fence around the 
 grave and planted a tree to shade 
 and protect it. 
 
 PORSCH, WALTER J. 99220 
 
 Sergeant Headquarters Company 
 Killed March 5, 1918. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. John 
 Porsch, Ft. Dodge, Iowa. 
 In the early hours of the morning 
 of March 5th, when the enemy 
 put down a box barrage, our men 
 were called to the alert posts. 
 The Stokes Mortar Platoon 
 rushed out to man the guns. As 
 the men of Gun No. 1 reached 
 the emplacement, a German 210, 
 a large shell, hit at the base of 
 their gun, killing seven men in- 
 stantly. Sergeant Porsch's body 
 was blown entirely to pieces. No 
 art of it was ever recovered. 
 
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 PEDERSON, GLENN 99308 
 
 Private Headquarters Company 
 
 Killed March 5, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Pedcr- 
 son, Spencer, Iowa. 
 
 Private Pederson was killed in 
 the first encounter, which cost 
 the headquarters company seven 
 of their finest soldiers, and they 
 all died at their post of duty. 
 
 Private Pederson was buried 
 with military honors at Baccarat. 
 His body, although badly muti- 
 lated, could be identified. 
 
 PARISH, DEAN 99251 
 
 Corporal Headquarters Company 
 Killed March 5, 1918. 
 
 Corporal Parish was also a mem- 
 ber of the gun crew, who so 
 gallantly held their post in their 
 first encounter with the enemy, 
 but they stood bravely to the last 
 and drove the enemy back. 
 
 He was buried with military 
 honors in the cemetery at Bac- 
 carat. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Parish, 
 Glade Valley, North Carolina. 
 
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 NASH, EDWARD 99437 
 
 Private Headquarters Company 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Nash, 
 Kingsley, Iowa. 
 
 Born at Kingsley, September 
 
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 Killed March 5, 1918 in action. 
 
 Private Nash was a member of 
 the Stokes Mortar Platoon, 
 which were manning gun No. 1, 
 when a German 210 hit the gun 
 and killed him instantly. 
 
 Private Nash died as an Ameri- 
 can soldier with his face 
 towards the enemy. 
 
 Private Nash was a very reliable 
 young man and had many 
 friends, both old and young. 
 
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 HOSCHLER, ALBERT E. 99403 
 
 Private Headquarters Company 
 
 Killed March 5, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Bertha Hoschler, 
 Akron, Iowa. 
 
 Private Hoschler was killed in 
 his first encounter with the 
 enemy, when a German 210 
 struck directly beneath the gun 
 and killed all the crew instantly. 
 Private Hoschler's body, al- 
 though badly mutilated, was 
 found and buried with miUtary 
 honors at Baccarat, France. 
 
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 MAC RAE, DONALD H. 99709 
 
 Corporal Machine Gun Company 
 
 Killed March 5, 1918 at Badon- 
 villier, France, Lorraine Sector. 
 
 Buried at Baccarat, March 7, 
 1918, Grave No. 6. 
 
 Corporal MacRae was killed in- 
 stantly by a piece of shrapnel, 
 which pierced his helmet. He 
 was acting as jammer in the 
 machine gun pit when killed. ° 
 
 His loss was felt severely by all '■ '' 
 members of his company and 
 brought the war home to all. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Murdo Mac 
 Rae, Des Moines, Iowa. 
 
 Corporal Mac Rae was a gradu- 
 ate of North High School, Des 
 Moines, Iowa. 
 
 WORDEN, CLIFFORD C. 99488 
 Private Headquarters Company 
 Killed March 5, 1918. 
 
 Private Worden was one of the 
 seven men who were killed in 
 their initial bombardment at 
 Badonvillier, France, while on 
 duty at their post. 
 
 Although there is no place 
 where we can say "Here lies the 
 bodies of Porsch, Nash and 
 Worden", yet we know that all 
 these men, the pride of the pla- 
 toon, were at their places with 
 their faces toward the emeny in 
 the first defensive combat of 
 the regiment. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. 
 Worden, Mason City, Iowa. 
 
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 Private Company D 
 Killed at Badonvillier, March 
 5th. 
 
 Buried March 7, 1918 in Grave 
 No. 14, Baccarat Cemetery. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. 
 Morrison, Unionville, Iowa. 
 
 Private Morrison went with the 
 company to the Lorraine 
 trenches, and in the regiment's v 
 first bombardment he showed 
 true soldierly qualities. While 
 waiting for the attack a shell 
 struck close by and he was 
 killed instantly. 
 
 Born November 12, 1896, near 
 Unionville, Iowa. 
 
 ROGERS, IRA J. 100769 
 
 Private Company D 
 
 Killed March 5, 1918 at Badon- 
 villier in the front line trenches. 
 
 Buried March 7, 1918, Grave 
 No. 10, Baccarat Cemetery. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Kate Rogers, 
 Unionville, Iowa. 
 
 Private Rogers was in the ini- 
 tial bombardment of March 
 5th, and was killed by a shell, 
 his death being instantaneous. 
 
 He stayed by his post during 
 the heavy shelling in order to 
 warn the platoon in case of 
 attack following the bombard- 
 ment. At all times he showed 
 his faithfulness and spirit for 
 the cause he was fighting for. 
 
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 100696 
 
 Private Company D 
 
 Killed March 5th in the front 
 line at Badonvillier, France. 
 
 Buried in Grave No, 2, Baccarat 
 Cemetery. 
 
 Relative's address : Mrs. Bes- 
 sie Eckles, Washington, Pa. 
 
 Private Breese wd-s transferred 
 from the old First Iowa into the 
 168th August 20, 1917. 
 
 He was killed when his dug-out 
 caved in during the bombard- 
 ment of March 5th, crushing 
 him so severely that he died 
 while being removed to the first 
 aid station. 
 
 Private Breese was a good sol- 
 dier and made his share of the 
 showing for which the regiment 
 was highly complimented by the 
 French. 
 
 CLAUSEN, ROBERT L. 100704 
 
 Private Company D 
 
 Killed March 5, 1918 at Badon- 
 villier. 
 
 Buried March 7th, Grave No. 3, 
 Baccarat Cemetery. 
 Private Clausen was known by 
 the officers and men to be a 
 good soldier and dependable 
 and efficient. 
 
 In the initial bombardment of 
 March 5th he upheld the stand- 
 ard of bravery which so 
 surprised the veteran French 
 that day. He was just coming 
 off post and was going to the 
 dug-out when a shell hit close 
 to him and killed him instantly. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Clau- 
 sen, Mason City, Iowa. 
 Born February 20, 1899 at Rock- 
 ford, Iowa. 
 
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 Private Company B 
 
 Killed at Badonvillier, France, 
 on March 5, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 7, Bac- 
 carat Cemetery. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. James 
 Worley, Exline, Iowa. 
 
 Private Worley, while on duty 
 as an observer in the trenches 
 near Badonvillier, was killed by 
 a shell which penetrated the 
 dug-out. This was the same 
 shcU that killed Captain Mc- 
 Hcnry and several others. 
 
 DAVIS, ISAAC 100167 
 
 Private Company B 
 
 Killed March 5, 1918 on the 
 Lorraine Front. 
 
 Buried March 7th, in Baccarat 
 Cemetery, Grave No. 12. 
 
 He enlisted in Company B, 
 Third Iowa National Guard, 
 May 28, 1917. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. 
 Davis, Woodburn, Iowa. 
 
 Private Davis was killed by a 
 high explosive shell while on 
 guard. He was twice given per- 
 mission to leave his post, but 
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 Private Company B 
 
 Killed at Badonvillier, France, 
 March 5, 1918. 
 
 Buried March 7th, Baccarat 
 Cemetery, Grave No. 9. 
 
 Private Van Raden was killed 
 by a German hand grenade 
 during the raid of March 5th, 
 by the Germans on our trenches. 
 The Second Platoon, of vi^hich 
 he was a member, was cited for 
 bravery on that date. 
 
 Private Van Raden enlisted 
 April 2, 1917 at the age of fif- 
 teen years, eight months. He 
 was very much interested in 
 soldiers as soon as war was de- 
 clared and was an excellent 
 soldier. 
 
 EATON, ALVA F. 100589 
 
 Sergeant Company D 
 Killed March 5, 1918 in the 
 front line trenches at Badon- 
 villier. 
 
 Buried March 7th, Grave No. 5, 
 Baccarat. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. 
 Eaton, Humeston, Iowa. 
 Born at Melrose, Iowa, January 
 21, 1898. 
 
 In the first bombardment the 
 regiment was in Sergeant Eaton 
 refused to take shelter until all 
 of his section had left the 
 trenches and were in the dug- 
 outs. His unselfishness result- 
 ed in his death. A brave 
 soldier, the most popular man 
 in the company. His place 
 was never filled. 
 
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 Private 1st Class, Company F 
 Killed March 9, 1918 near St. 
 Maurice, France. 
 Buried in Grave No. 2, Bac- 
 carat Cemetery. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Q. D. 
 Todd, Tabor, Iowa. 
 Todd was accidentally killed by 
 the explosion of hand grenades 
 when nearly out of shell fire. 
 Private Todd was a young man, 
 loved by every one in the com- 
 pany for his happy disposition. 
 He was awarded the Croix de 
 Guerre for bravery during the 
 raid of March 9th in the Lor- 
 raine Sector. 
 
 Private Todd was a college man 
 and was an earnest Christian 
 worker. 
 
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 BEHMER, ALBERT 102493 
 
 Corporal Company M 
 
 Killed in the front Une trenches 
 near Badonvillier, March 9, 1918. 
 Buried March 11th, Grave No. 
 6, Pexonne Cemetery. 
 
 Corporal Behmer was one of 
 the most popular and best liked 
 men of his company. He was 
 noted for his ability to sing a 
 song that would make you for- 
 get your troubles. 
 
 While lying in a small shelter 
 in the trench, waiting for word 
 to go over the top, he was killed 
 by a high explosive shell, which 
 struck near by. He had ex- 
 posed himself in order to give 
 shelter to an exhausted runner; 
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 Corporal Company M 
 Killed March 9, 1918, at Badon- 
 villier. 
 
 Buried March 11th in Baccarat 
 Cemetery, Grave No. 25, with 
 military honors. 
 
 After months of hard training 
 Butler made the supreme sacri- 
 fice an hour before the time 
 when he could have proved his 
 ability as a fighting man. He 
 was lying in the trenches wait- 
 ing for the zero hour when his 
 company were to go over the 
 top on a raid. He was struck 
 by a German shell and died 
 shortly after. 
 
 Relative's address: A. J. But- 
 ler, Prentice, Wisconsin. 
 He enlisted April 5, 1917 at the 
 age of nineteen years. 
 
 FALL, HENRY H. 102482 
 
 Corporal Company M 
 
 Killed March 9, 1918 in the 
 trenches north of Badonvillier. 
 Buried in Baccarat Cemetery, 
 France. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. John 
 Fall, Red Oak, Iowa. 
 
 Corporal Fall enlisted in Com-, 
 pany M and went to Francefl 
 with the regiment. He went » 
 into the trenches in the Lor- 
 raine Sector, and went over the 
 top in the raid on March 9th. 
 He proved his ability as a leader 
 and did excellent work. He 
 was shot down by a machine 
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 Private First Class Company M. 
 
 Killed March 9th in the front 
 line trenches at Badonvillier. 
 
 Buried March 11th in Pexonne 
 Cemetery, Grave No. 4. 
 
 Private Turner was always an 
 example of a good soldier. He 
 was killed while carrying a 
 message from his platoon com- 
 mander to the rear P. C. His 
 death was a blow to his many 
 friends but he died as a soldier 
 should, doing his duty. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. R. R. 
 Turner, R. F. D. No. 7, Atlantic, 
 Iowa. 
 
 CONLEY, CECIL M. 102604 
 
 Private Company M 
 
 Killed March 9, 1918 at Badon- 
 villier, in the front line trenches. 
 
 Buried in Pexonne Cemetery, 
 Grave No. 5. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. O. O. Con- 
 ley, Atlantic, Iowa. 
 
 Private Conley was the first M 
 Company man to die in battle. 
 He was killed by shrapnel while 
 waiting to go over the top at the 
 trenches in Badonvillier. 
 
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 McCORD, CHARLES M. 
 
 Corporal Company I 
 
 Died March 11, 1918, at Camp 
 Hospital No. 24 at Langres, 
 France, of Meningitis. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert 
 McCord, Burlington, Iowa. 
 
 Corporal McCord went to 
 France with the company and 
 was taken sick while the regi-, 
 ment was receiving its prelim- 1 
 inary training at Morder, 
 France. 
 
 He was a capable squad leader 
 and, had he lived, would, no 
 doubt, have given a good ac- 
 count of himself in battle. 
 
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 STEVENS, CLIFFORD J. 101071 
 
 Corporal Company F 
 
 Killed March 9, 1918 at Lorraine 
 Front, near BadonviUier. 
 
 Buried March 13th in Pexonne 
 Cemetery, Grave No. 3. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. 
 Stevens, Brooks, Maine. 
 
 Corporal Stevens was a very 
 good soldier, always handling 
 his squad in splendid manner, 
 especially under fire. He had 
 gone through the greater part 
 of the barrage and was almost 
 out of range of the shells when 
 several grenades were accident- 
 ally exploded near him, killing 
 him instantly. 
 
 He was a graduate of Brown 
 University, and was a principal 
 of schools in civil life. 
 
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 Private Company B 
 
 Died March 11, 1918 at Baccarat 
 Hospital. 
 
 Buried March 12th, in Grave 
 No. 21, Baccarat Cemetery. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Patrick BraceUn, 
 Norwalk, Iowa. 
 
 Private Bracelin was wounded 
 by shrapnel in the trench raid 
 of March 5th. Sergeant Daw- 
 son, who was present at the 
 time relates Bracelin's last, 
 words : "Tell the boys I did my 
 part." He was taken to the 
 hospital in Baccarat, where he 
 died a few days later. 
 
 BRUMMETT, FRED C. 101187 
 Private Company F 
 Wounded in action March 9th, 
 at Neu Ville, and died in the 
 hospital at Baccarat on March 
 10, 1918. 
 
 Buried March 13th in Grave No. 
 24, Baccarat Cemetery. 
 Son of Mrs. Rushia Brummett, 
 Clarinda, Iowa. 
 
 Private Brummett was wounded 
 in the back by a high explosive / 
 shell. He received immediate 
 and the best of care from Amer- 
 ican and French surgeons, but 
 they failed to save him. He 
 was a young man of splendid 
 character. His last words were 
 about his mother, whom he 
 greatly loved. 
 
 Private Brummett was awarded 
 the Croix de Guerre before he 
 died. 
 
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ANDERSON, HARRY L. 101589 
 Bugler Company H 
 
 Killed March 11, 1918 at Badon- 
 villier, France, 
 
 Buried March 13th, in Grave 
 No. 7, Pexonne Cemetery. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. 
 Anderson, Oskaloosa, Iowa. 
 
 The first time that Company H 
 took over the front line trenches, 
 relieving Company G, the vyrar 
 was brought home to the boys 
 by the loss of one of the 
 youngest boys in the company, 
 our always popular Bugler, 
 Harry L. Anderson. He was 
 killed by a German sniper, 
 while he was carrying orders 
 and mail from his commanding 
 ofiFicer to a post in the front 
 line. 
 
 DUNN, MARVIN 100126 
 
 Corporal Company B 
 Died March 13, 1918 from 
 wounds received March 5th. 
 Buried in Baccarat Cemetery, 
 Grave No, 26, 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. N. J. 
 Dunn, Des Moines, Iowa. 
 After being badly wounded by a 
 hand grenade, Corporal Dunn 
 took an automatic rifie and kept^ 
 the Germans from entering the \ 
 dug-out, thereby saving his 
 comrades. He shared with his 
 platoon the citation by the 128th 
 French Division and personally 
 received the Croix de Guerre 
 for his brave deed. 
 Corporal Dunn contracted pneu- 
 monia while in the hospital, 
 which was no doubt partly the 
 cause of his death. 
 
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 LOBAN, RONALD, 99442 
 
 Private Headquarters company 
 Died March 17, 1918, at Evacu- 
 ation Hospital No. 212 at Bacca- 
 rat, France. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 28, Bacca- 
 rat. 
 
 Son of Mrs, Etta Loben, Jewell, 
 Iowa. 
 
 Loben was not strong at any 
 time during the hard winter 
 spent in Rimaucourt. Only a 
 boy, the rigors of that trying 
 period in our first billets with- 
 out sufficient fire to even dry 
 their clothes, proved to be too 
 much for him. Hard work and 
 exposure in the trenches took 
 his last ounce of vitality and he 
 died of pneumonia contracted 
 while on duty in the trenches. 
 Private Loban was born at 
 Blairsburg, Iowa, December 15, 
 1900. 
 
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 HUGHES, RUSSELL G. 100238 
 
 Corporal Company L 
 
 Killed March 17, 1918, at Badon- 
 viUier. 
 
 Buried March 19th, Pexonne 
 Cemetery, Grave No. 8. 
 
 Son of Mr, and Mrs. F. A. 
 Hughes, Omaha, Nebraska. 
 
 Corporal Hughes was killed by 
 shell fire during a heavy bom 
 bardment of our trenches. He 
 was standing on watch at his 
 post over the dug-out where he 
 stayed faithfully at his place of 
 duty to the very last. No cor- 
 poral of the company was a 
 more dependable leader ; 
 
 whether under fire or back of 
 the lines, he was always on the 
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 Private First Class Sanitary De- 
 tachment 
 
 Died of pneumonia March 19, 
 1918, at Hospital in Baccarat, 
 France. 
 
 Buried in Baccarat Cemetery, 
 Grave No. 30. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. O. A. 
 Spears, Des Moines, Iowa. 
 Private Spears was taken ill 
 shortly before the regiment 
 sailed and sent to hospital at 
 Camp Mills. He was discharged 
 in November and joined his 
 regiment on their return to Camp 
 Mills, sailing with them on No- 
 vember 14th. In the trenches 
 on March 5th he did excellent 
 work. Later he was taken sick 
 while his battalion was at rest. 
 Death was undoubtedly the re- 
 sult of exposure and over exer- 
 tion on March 5th. 
 
 MORRILL, LLOYD 102546 
 
 Private Company M 
 
 Killed March 17, 1918 in the 
 
 front line trenches near Badon- 
 
 villier. 
 
 Buried March 19th in Grave No. 
 
 9, Pexonne Cemetery 
 
 Private Morrill was killed by an 
 explosion of hand grenades in 
 a raid on March 9th. He went 
 over the top with his company 
 and did excellent work while 
 with them. His absence in 
 Company M was sorely felt by 
 his comrades and all who knew 
 him. He was a friend to every- 
 body, and always ready and 
 willing to do his duty. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Mor- 
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 Private Company D 
 
 Died March 21, 1918 of scarlet 
 fever. 
 
 Buried in Baccarat Cemetery, 
 Grave No, 32. 
 
 Son of Mrs. S. A. Stafford, Clear 
 Lake, Iowa. 
 
 Private Stafford was taken sick 
 shortly after the first battle on 
 March 5th. He was delirious 
 most of the time while in the 
 hospital and asked repeatedly 
 for his mother. Despite all 
 efforts of the doctors and nurses 
 he was too weak to resist the 
 disease. 
 
 CULP, LLOYD 102520 
 
 Private Company M 
 
 Died of wounds received in 
 action in March 19, 1918 at Bac- 
 carat Hospital. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 27 in Bac- 
 carat Cemetery. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. 
 Culp, Madras, Oregon. 
 
 Private Culp was taken ill be- 
 fore the regiment sailed for 
 France and was left behind. 
 He joined the regiment in 
 France on March 6th. He went 
 over the top with his company 
 on March 9th, and in the en- 
 counter proved himself a good 
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 Private Company D 
 Killed April 12, 1918 at Village 
 Negre while on the road to a 
 dressing station. Buried in 
 Grave No. 12, Baccarat Ceme- 
 tery. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Felice 
 Viscusi, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 He joined the regiment as a re- 
 placement in February, 1918. 
 
 He was conscious but a short 
 time after being hit by a shell, 
 telling the men good-bye and 
 died with but little suffering. 
 Private Viscusi was a foreigner 
 by birth, Italian, but made it a 
 point to show everyone that his 
 heart and soul were in the fight. 
 All missed his presence, both as 
 a soldier and as a comrade. 
 
 MONAHAN, EDWARD H. 102398 
 
 Private Company L 
 
 Died March 31, 1918 at Hospital 
 at Baccarat, France. 
 
 Buried April 2d in Baccarat 
 Cemetery, Grave No. 35. 
 
 Son of Mr. 'and Mrs. E. H. 
 Monahan, Sioux City, Iowa. 
 
 Private Monahan was wounded 
 by a German hand grenade while 
 on a patrol on March 21st. His 
 left leg was amputated and he 
 was recovering nicely, but com- 
 plications set in and he died in 
 the hospital. He proved himself 
 a brave and patient soldier dur- 
 ing his period of suffering. 
 
 While in the hospital he was 
 / awarded the Croix de Guerre by 
 Gen »ral Segonne, Commander of 
 the 128th Division. 
 
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 Corporal Company H 
 
 Died at Field Hospital No. 167 
 at Baccarat, France on April 14, 
 1918. 
 
 Buried April 16th in Grave No. 
 40. 
 
 Corporal Parkinson contracted 
 pneumonia while the regiment 
 was in the Lorraine Sector and 
 died on April 14th. 
 
 Sister — Miss Katherine M. 
 Parkinson, Portsmouth, Iowa. 
 
 YOUNG, FREDERICK, 100684 
 
 Private Company D 
 
 Killed April 13, 1918 at Village 
 Negre. 
 
 Buried April 16th in Grave No. 
 39, Baccarat Cemetery. 
 
 A high explosive shell hit in the 
 center of a path in which Private 
 Young and several others were 
 walking, killing one and wound- 
 ing several. Private Young was 
 severely wounded. He was con- 
 scious to the last, talking cheer- 
 fully while his wounds were 
 being dressed and asked for a 
 cigarette. When leaving in the 
 ambulance he called good-bye to 
 the men. 
 
 Relative's address : W. B. Owens, 
 Centerville, Iowa. 
 
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 Private Company B 
 
 Died April 23, 1918 at Baccarat 
 Hospital. 
 
 Buried April 24th, Grave No. 46, 
 Baccarat Cemetery. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Elizabeth Zuschlag, 
 Transfer, Pa. 
 
 Private Zuschlag died of pneu- 
 monia. 
 
 He enlisted October 17, 1917 
 and became a member of Com- 
 pany B April 9, 1918. 
 
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 SCHAFER, WALTER B. 
 
 2d. Lieut. Company G 
 
 Died April 22, 1918. 
 
 Buried twenty kilometers west 
 of Sarbourg, Grave "Cirey sue 
 Vesouze". 
 
 Lieutenant Schafer was shot in 
 the stomach while on patrol duty 
 and taken prisoner. He was 
 taken to a German hospital, 
 where he died. 
 
 Lieutenant Schafer was Bat- 
 talion Patrol officer and was 
 known throughout the entire 
 regiment for his daring and 
 ability as a scout. 
 
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 Private Company C 
 
 KiUed May 1, 1918 at Badon- 
 villier. 
 
 Buried May 2, Grave No. 13, 
 Pexonne Cemetery, Map No. 2. 
 
 Relative's address : Mrs. Roy E. 
 Howard, Des Moines, Iowa. 
 
 Private Jennings had just 
 finished his dinner and was 
 standing near the kitchen, wait- 
 ing to wash his mess kit — a high 
 explosive shell struck near him, 
 and a fragment of the shell 
 pierced his chest killing him 
 instantly. 
 
 MOWERY, HOWARD A. 101247 
 
 Private Company F 
 
 Killed April 27, 1918 at Lorraine 
 Front in the trenches near 
 Badonvillier. 
 
 Buried April 29th, Grave No. 51, 
 Baccarat Cemetery. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. O. S. 
 Mowery, Shelby Iowa. 
 
 Private Mowery was on post in 
 the front lines during the night. 
 The trenches were protected 
 by wire netting. He thought he 
 heard a sound in the wires, and 
 when he threw a grenade it struck 
 the wire in front of him, bounded 
 back and he was severely 
 wounded by the explosion, dying 
 before morning. 
 
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 Corporal Company I 
 
 Killed in action May 15th, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. S. F. 
 Rimel, Trinity, Texas. 
 
 Corporal Rimel was struck in;^ 
 the chest by a high explosive , | 
 shell, which killed him instantly. 
 
 Corporal Rimel was a friend to 
 every man, and manifested 
 ability as a non-commissioned V V 
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 LYON, WILLIAM R. 100032 
 
 Private Company A 
 Killed May 4, 1918, at Village 
 Negre in the Lorraine Sector. 
 Buried at Pexonne Cemetery, 
 Grave No. 14. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Lyon, 
 Indianola, Iowa. 
 
 While on patrol in "No Man's 
 Land", he and his comrades 
 encountered an emeny of great 
 patrol strength, and in the fight 
 Private Lyon was shot through 
 both legs and bled to death 
 before reaching our lines. 
 He was buried with military 
 honors. 
 
 He was a member of the Bat- 
 taUon Scouts and the wonderful 
 record he established there has 
 ?eldom been equaled. 
 
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 First Lieutenant Company M 
 
 Killed May 15, 1918 in the 
 trenches north of Badonvillier. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. 
 Mcllvaine, Indianapolis, Ind. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 18, Pexonne 
 Cemetery. 
 
 Lieutenant Mcllvaine joined the 
 168th Infantry shortly after we 
 landed in France and was with 
 the organization through the 
 training period. He was a hard 
 drillmaster and his platoon was 
 a credit to the company. 
 
 Lieutenant Mcllvaine was killed 
 by a high explosive shell during 
 one of the most severe bom- 
 bardments of the war, in that 
 sector. 
 
 McCONNELEE, IRWIN 102539 
 
 Private Company M 
 
 Killed May 15, 1918, at Badon- 
 villier trenches. 
 
 Buried May 18th, in Baccarat 
 Cemetery, Grave No. 58. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Mary McConnelee, 
 Atlantic, Iowa. 
 
 Private McConnelee was killed 
 by a high explosive shell while 
 asleep in his dug-out. He had 
 just returned from carrying a 
 message from his platoon com- 
 mander to the rear. 
 
 Private McConnelee was known 
 to the members of his company 
 as "Smiling Irwin". 
 
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HOBBS, CLEM 102457 
 
 Sergeant Company M 
 
 Killed May 15, 1918 near Badon- 
 villier. 
 
 Buried in Pexonne Cemetery, 
 Grave No. 17. 
 
 Sergeant Hobbs was struck by 
 a shell while asleep in his dug- 
 out and killed. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. 
 Hobbs, Red Oak, Iowa. 
 
 In the trenches in Lorraine he 
 proved himself a good soldier 
 and an exceptional leader. He 
 had the love and respect of every 
 man in the regiment. 
 Born August 10, 1893. 
 
 EATON, ROY H. 
 
 84345 
 
 Private Company H 
 
 Killed May 17, 1918 at Badon- 
 villier. 
 
 Buried May 19th in Pexonne 
 Cemetery, Grave No. 19. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Addie Eaton, Colo- 
 rado Springs, Colo. 
 
 During a relief by Company H 
 of Company E, a German patrol 
 had advanced up to the Post of 
 Command. Just as the relief had 
 been completed the Germans 
 raided. Private Eaton was killed 
 by a grenade in the fierce fight 
 which ensued. This was the 
 first fight Company H was in and 
 the boys who took part in it won 
 the admiration of all their com- 
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 Private Company E 
 
 Killed May 20, 1918 in the front 
 line trenches near Badonvillier, 
 France. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 20, Pex- 
 onne Cemetery. 
 
 Born at Chariton, Iowa, May 6, 
 1896. 
 
 Wife : Mrs. Ruth Caviness, 
 Charles City, Iowa. 
 
 Shortly before his death, at his 
 own request, he was transferred 
 on special duty to the Second 
 Battalion Scouts, where he soon 
 became known as a skillful and 
 accurate patrol worker. 
 
 BROWN, FRANK R. 102590 
 
 Private Company M 
 
 Killed May 26, 1918 at Village 
 Negre. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 27, Pexonne 
 Cemetery. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. S. W. 
 Brown, Salem, North Dakota. 
 
 Private Brown was on special 
 duty in the trenches on the night 
 of May 27th, and when a bom- 
 bardment started, he endeavored 
 to gain cover but was struck by 
 a shell and killed before he 
 could reach a dug-out. 
 
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SALSBURY, JESSE R. 99938 
 
 Private Company A 
 
 Died of gas received on May 
 27th. 
 
 Buried in Baccarat Cemetery, 
 Grave No. 73. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Sals- 
 bury, Patterson, Iowa. 
 
 Private Salsbury was a member 
 of Company A in 1916 and saw 
 border service with that com- 
 pany. He was transferred to 
 fill the ranks of the 168th, when 
 that regiment was formed. 
 
 He was a good man in the lines. 
 
 Born February 23, 1894. 
 
 SHAW, EARL G. 100068 
 
 Private Company A 
 
 Wounded on May 27th and died 
 in the hospital on the same date. 
 
 Buried in Baccarat Cemetery, 
 Grave No. 69. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry 
 Shaw, Dubuque, Iowa. 
 
 Private Shaw saw some service 
 on the border and was with Com- 
 pany A in the trenches up to the 
 time he was gassed. 
 
 He was exceedingly well liked 
 for his ready wit and good 
 humor. 
 
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 Private Company B 
 
 Killed May 27th at Badonvillier. 
 
 Buried May 28, 1918 at Pexonne 
 Cemetery, Grave No. 24. 
 
 Private Bellak was killed by gas 
 while on post at Badonvillier. 
 
 He enlisted October 5, 1917 and 
 joined Company B April, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. John 
 Bellak, South Fork, Pa. 
 
 STRONG, FRED L. 302776 
 
 Private Company A 
 
 Died at Baccarat Hospital May 
 27th. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 62 in Bac- 
 carat Cemetery. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul 
 Strong, Hart, Mich. |^ 
 
 Private Strong was gassed on 
 May 27tfa-at VrHagc Ncgrc and 
 died that same day in the hospi- 
 tal. 
 
 Private Strong was a good 
 soldier and liked by all who knew 
 him. 
 
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 Private Company A 
 
 Killed May 27th at the Lorraine 
 Front. 
 
 Buried in Baccarat Cemetery, 
 Grave No. 70. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Maggie Pfab, Du- 
 buque, Iowa. 
 
 Private Pfab w^as gassed at 
 Village Negre on May 27th and 
 died in the hospital. 
 
 Private Pfab was a member of 
 the old First Iowa and saw serv- 
 ice on the border. 
 
 He did considerable patrolling 
 and proved to be a remarkable 
 man in the line. 
 
 POWERS, EVERETTE 100056 
 
 Private Company A 
 
 Gassed May 27, 1918 and died 
 two days later in the hospital at 
 Baccarat. 
 
 Buried in Baccarat Cemetery, 
 Grave No. 65. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. 
 
 Powers, Carlisle, Iowa. / 
 
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 Private Powers, by his daring 
 and fearlessness in the face of 
 danger, was recognized by his 
 comrades as being a man who 
 would always accomplish his task 
 however difficult. 
 
 He was a conscientious worker 
 and an excellent soldier. 
 
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 Private Company A 
 
 Died from gas received on May 
 27, 1918 near Badonvillier, 
 France. 
 
 Buried in Baccarat Cemetery 
 May 28th, Grave No. 75. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice 
 E. Powers, Red Lodge, Mont. 
 
 Private Powers was a splendid 
 soldier, always on the alert and 
 ready to do his duty. He was 
 usually a member of patrols and 
 raiding parties sent out from the 
 company. 
 
 His strict adherence to duty and 
 his jovial disposition will always 
 be remembered by his comrades. 
 
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 GETTEYS, LLOYD W. 99992 
 
 Private Company A 
 
 Killed May 27, 1918 at Lorraine. 
 
 Buried in Baccarat Cemetery, 
 Grave No. 74. 
 
 Son of Mrs. M. Getteys, Stuart, 
 Iowa. 
 
 Private Getteys demonstrated hisj 
 worth in the battle of March 5th 
 He was in the thick of the fight 
 and displayed qualities which are 
 essential for a good soldier. 
 
 Private Getteys was well liked by 
 both officers and men. He rep- 
 resented the best principles that 
 America could inculcate. 
 
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 Private Headquarter' s Company 
 
 Killed May 27th at Badonvillier. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 21, Pexonne 
 Cemetery. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Lars Ander- 
 son, Mason City, Iowa. 
 
 Private Anderson was with a 
 cleaning party in the front line 
 trenches. The Germans sent 
 over a gas attack and these men 
 were sent in to reinforce the men 
 in the line. In the confusion 
 Private Anderson inhaled too 
 much of the deadly gas and died 
 the same night. 
 
 FORD, EUGENE 99986 
 
 Private Company A 
 
 Killed May 27, 1918 at Village 
 Negre. 
 
 Buried in Pexonne Cemetery on 
 March 28th, Grave No. 22. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Ford, 
 Winterset, Iowa. !\ " 
 
 Private Ford conducted himsel 
 in a very courageous manner in ' 
 the raid on March 5th, carrying 
 messages over a shell swept area. 
 
 He was an excellent soldier and 
 a loveable comrade. 
 
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 Private Company A 
 
 Died on May 28th of wounds 
 received in gas attack at Village 
 Negre. 
 
 Buried in Baccarat Cemetery, 
 Grave No. 79. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs, Ross Croft, 
 Winterset, Iowa. 
 
 Private Croft lost his life trying 
 to save others. He was a gas 
 guard at the time of the attack 
 on May 27th. 
 
 Private Croft was recommended 
 for the Croix de Guerre by Major 
 Conkling. 
 
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 Private Company A 
 
 Died of gas wounds on May 28, 
 1918. 
 
 Buried in Baccarat Cemetery, 
 Grave No. 67. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Bcavers- 
 dorf, Dubuque, Iowa. 
 
 Private Beaversdorf was a mem"|\ 
 ber of the First Iowa Infantry 
 and was transferred to the 168th 
 Infantry. He did very good work 
 in the trenches in the former 
 engagements. Private Beavers- 
 dorf was gassed on May 27th and 
 died the following day in the 
 hospital at Baccarat. 
 
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 Cook Company A 
 
 Gassed on May 27th and died in 
 hospital at Baccarat the same 
 day. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 66, Baccarat 
 Cemetery. 
 
 Son of Melvin and Mattie 
 Downs, Kenmundy, Illinois. 
 
 Cook Downs had a great reputa- 
 tion for his unfailing good humor 
 and as a cook. 
 
 He was a member of the original 
 Company A, Third Iowa In- 
 fantry. 
 
 BAKER, OSCAR A. 99953 
 
 Private Company A 
 
 Died of gas wounds on May 27th 
 in the hospital at Baccarat. 
 
 Buried in Baccarat Cemetery, 
 Grave No. 63. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. 
 Baker, Dubuque, Iowa. 
 
 During the gas attack on May 
 27th Private Baker was wounded 
 by a gas shell exploding at his 
 feet. Not thinking of himself, 
 he rushed into the infirmary to 
 save the wounded. 
 
 Private Baker drove the ration 
 cart for the company from the 
 rear to the support lines. 
 
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 Masician Company A 
 
 Gassed at Village Negre on May 
 27, 1918 and died on the follow- 
 ing day in Hospital No. 2, Bac- 
 carat, France. 
 
 Buried in Baccarat Cemetery, 
 Grave No. 72. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Davis, 
 Churdan, Iowa. 
 
 Born at Carson, Iowa, December 
 21, 1898. 
 
 Bugler Davis acted as a regi- 
 mental Liaison runner between 
 the 167th and the 168th Infantry 
 regiments. 
 
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 Cook Company A 
 
 Died in the hospital at Baccarat 
 on May 28, 1918 from gas re- 
 ceived at Village Negre, May 
 27th. 
 
 Buried in Baccarat Cemetery, 
 Grave No. 71. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester 
 Davis, Nora Springs, Iowa. 
 
 Cook Davis enlisted in the 
 Second Iowa Infantry in June 
 1917 and was later transferred to 
 Company A, 168th Infantry. 
 
 Born at Exline, Iowa, March 7, 
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 NAUMAN, MERLE L, 99829 
 
 Private Machine Gun Company 
 
 Killed at Village Negre, near 
 Badonvillier, France on May 27, 
 1918. 
 
 Buried at Baccarat, Grave No. 77. 
 
 Private Nauman was sleeping in 
 his dug-out when the gas attack 
 was made. One of the pro- 
 jectiles struck his dug-out and he 
 inhaled some of the deadly fumes 
 before he could get his mask out. 
 Born in Union County, Iowa, 
 December 9, 1887. 
 
 Relative's address: Adaline Nau- 
 man, Arispe, Iowa. 
 
 GREEN, CLARENCE R. 
 
 First Lieutenant Company A 
 Died in hospital No. 2, Baccarat, 
 France on May 27th from gas 
 wounds received on the same 
 day. 
 
 Buried in Officers' Row in Bac- 
 carat Cemetery, 
 
 Mrs. C. R. Green (Wife), Win- 
 terset, Iowa. 
 
 Lieutenant Green was severely 
 gassed and died very soon after 
 reaching the hospital. 
 He was asleep in his dug-out and 
 was so tired and exhausted that 
 before he could be awakened, 
 the gas had entered the room 
 and he took one breath. He was 
 carried to the Aid Station, put in 
 the ambulance and sent imme- 
 diately to the hospital, but the 
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 Private Machine Gun Company 
 
 Killed May 27, 1918 by gas at 
 
 Village Negre near Badonvillier, 
 
 France. 
 
 Buried at Baccarat, France in 
 
 Grave No. 86. 
 
 Relative's address: Mrs. John 
 Leaper, Anamosa, Iowa. 
 
 Private McCuUough was gassed 
 in the eventful attack of May 
 27th and died a few hours after 
 his arrival at the hospital. He 
 was sleeping in his dug-out and 
 inhaled some of the fumes be- 
 fore he could get his mask on to 
 protect himself. 
 
 Born at Fairview, Iowa, February 
 22, 1899. 
 
 FLEUR, EDWARD O. 
 
 Captain Machine Gun Company 
 
 Killed May 27, 1918 at Village 
 
 Negre. 
 
 Buried in Baccarat Cemetery, 
 Officers' Row. 
 
 Captain Fleur was severely 
 gassed on May 27th and died 
 shortly after his arrival at the 
 hospital in Baccarat. 
 
 Mrs. Edward Fleur (Wife), Des 
 Moines, Iowa. 
 
 Captain Fleur served as a cor- 
 poral in the Philippines and had 
 been connected with 3rd Iowa In- 
 fantry for many years. He was 
 loved by his fellow officers and 
 his death was a distinct loss to 
 the Regiment. 
 
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 ALONGO, NICOLO 100398 
 
 Private Company C 
 
 Died May 27, 1918 at Evacuation 
 Hospital No. 2, Baccarat, France. 
 
 Buried May 29th in Grave No. 
 64, Baccarat Cemetery. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. George 
 Alongo, Priggi, Italy. 
 
 Private Alongo was in camp near 
 the kitchen and was unable to 
 get his mask on soon enough to 
 protect himself from the fumes 
 of the gas. 
 
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 TILLMAN, JESSE F. 100365 
 
 Sergeant Company C 
 
 Died May 27, 1918 of gas received 
 on the same day. 
 
 Buried in Baccarat Cemetery, 
 Grave No. 68. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Till- 
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 Sergeant Tillman had been sent 
 to the hospital with trench fever. 
 He was taken to the aid station 
 which was gassed, and being in a 
 delirious condition, he was un- 
 able to keep his mask on to pro- 
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 SCHUSTER, AUGUST 302232 
 
 Private Company B 
 
 Killed at Badonvillier May 27, 
 1918, 
 
 Buried May 28th in Pexonne 
 Cemetery, Grave No. 25. 
 
 Relative's address: Mrs. Kate 
 Buler, Erie, Pa. 
 
 Private Schuster was killed by 
 gas while on post at Badonvillier, 
 France. 
 
 He became a member of Com- 
 pany B, April 9, 1918. 
 
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 ORR. FRANK W. 100120 
 
 Corporal Company B 
 
 Killed May 27, 1918 at Badon- 
 villier. 
 
 Buried May 28th, Grave No. 23 
 in Pexonne Cemetery. 
 
 Corporal Orr was on duty on post 
 at Badonvillier, when gassed. 
 
 He served on the Mexican Bor- 
 der in 1916-1917. 
 
 Corporal Orr received his educa- 
 tion in Winterset and Des 
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 Private Company A 
 
 Died in Hospital at Baccarat 
 May 28, 1918 from gas received 
 on May 27th at the Lorraine 
 Front. 
 
 Buried in Baccarat Cemetery, 
 Grave No. 81. 
 
 Private Hann proved his worth 
 as a soldier in the attack on 
 March 5th. 
 
 His comrades will always re- 
 member his cheerful disposition, 
 his obedience to orders and his 
 sterling qualities. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Everett 
 Hann, Winterset, Iowa. 
 
 SCHUSTER, CLEMENT W. 99940 
 
 Private Company A 
 
 Died of gas wounds received on 
 May 27, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Baccarat Cemetery, 
 Grave No. 78. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. 
 Schuster, Dubuque, Iowa. 
 
 Private Schuster served on the 
 Mexican Border as a member of 
 the First Iowa Infantry. He was 
 transferred into the 168th In- 
 fantry Company and was with 
 them in all their engagements 
 prior to May 27th. 
 
 Private Schuster was a good man 
 both in the barracks and in the 
 line. 
 
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 Private Company A 
 Gassed on May 27, 1918 and died 
 in Evacuation Hospital No. 2 on 
 May 28th. 
 
 Buried in Baccarat Cemetery, 
 Grave No. 84. 
 
 Relative's address: Frank Har- 
 mon, Mason City, lov^a. 
 
 Private Baken did excellent w^ork 
 while in the trenches, and partic- 
 ipated 
 patrols. 
 
 He v^as transferred to the 168th 
 Infantry from the old Second 
 Iowa Infantry. 
 
 
 
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 Private Company C 
 
 Died May 28, 1918 at Evacuation 
 Hospital No. 2, Baccarat, France. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 76 at Bac- 
 carat. 
 
 Private Quinn was on duty in 
 the trenches in the Lorraine Sec- 
 tor. He was gassed and sent to 
 the hospital where he died. 
 
 Relative's address : Bill Fanber, 
 Sheridan, Wyo. 
 
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 Private Company C 
 
 Died May 28, 1918 as a result of 
 gas received May 27th. 
 
 Buried in Baccarat Cemetery, 
 Grave No. 61. 
 
 Private Craig was gassed severe- 
 ly on May 27th. He was taken 
 to the hospital but died the fol- 
 lowing day. 
 
 Relative's address : Clarence 
 Blood, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 
 
 SAUNDERS, WILLIAM M. 100202 
 
 Private Company B 
 
 Died May 28, 1918 at Evacuation 
 Hospital No. 2, Baccarat, France. 
 
 Buried May 29th in Baccarat 
 Cemetery, Grave No. 83, 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. 
 Saunders, Garwin, Iowa. 
 
 Private Saunders was gassed on 
 post at Badonvillier, dying later 
 in the hospital. 
 
 He enlisted in Company B, Third 
 Iowa National Guard in April, 
 1917. 
 
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 Private Company K 
 
 Killed May 28th on the Lorraine 
 Front. 
 
 Buried May 30, 1918, in Pexonne 
 Cemetery, Grave No. 26. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Sallie Gustine, Ex- 
 celsior Springs, Missouri. 
 
 Private Gustine was killed in a 
 gas attack on the trenches near 
 Badonvillier. 
 
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 SWEENY, IVAN D. 102431 
 
 Private Company L 
 
 Died May 29, 1918 at Evacuation 
 Hospital No. 2, Baccarat, France. 
 
 Buried May 31st in Baccarat 
 Cemetery, Grave No. 91. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs, Grant 
 Sw^eeny, Council Bluffs, Iowa. || 
 
 Private Sweeny was a man of 
 true worth, patient in hardships 
 and suffering. He would have 
 been a valuable man in the days 
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 HAZARD, SAMUEL 102372 
 
 Private Company L 
 
 Died May 29. 1918 at Evacuation 
 Hospital No. 2, Baccarat, France. 
 
 Buried May 31st in Baccarat 
 Cemetery, Grave No. 82. 
 
 Relative's address: Mrs. C. A. 
 Johnson, Atlantic, Iowa. 
 
 Private Hazard Mfas standing 
 guard at the fork of the roads 
 during the gas attack of May 
 29th. He was wounded in the 
 face so severely that he could 
 not wear a mask, but he stayed 
 at his post vainly trying to adjust 
 his mask. 
 
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 HEWITT, GLADSTONE C. 100499 
 
 Died May 29, 1918, at Baccarat. 
 France. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 80, Bac- 
 carat Cemetery. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hew- 
 itt, Creston, Iowa. \ 
 
 Private Hewitt was on duty in 
 the trenches near Village Negre. 
 He was gassed and taken to the 
 hospital where he died later. 
 
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 Private Company B 
 
 Killed May 29, 1918 at Badon- 
 villier. 
 
 Buried May 30th, in Pexonne 
 Cemetery, Grave No. 28. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. 
 Marshall, Indianola, Iowa. 
 
 Private Marshall had advanced 
 in front of his post, in a raid, 
 and was firing his auto rifle 
 when he was killed by a hand 
 grenade. 
 
 He was a member of the Sec- 
 ond Platoon which was cited 
 for bravery on March 5th. 
 
 LARSON, THOMAS V. 
 
 99417 
 
 Private Headquarters Company 
 
 Killed May 29, 1918 at Village 
 Negre in the Lorraine Sector. 
 
 Buried May 30th in Pexonne 
 Cemetery, Grave No. 29, with 
 the military honors he deserved. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Hannah Larson, 
 Berkeley, California. 
 
 Private Larson was a member 
 of the telephone platoon and 
 was stationed at Village Negre. 
 He was asleep in his dug-out 
 when a container broke in the 
 room, and he did not awaken in 
 time to put on his mask. 
 
 Private Larson was a good, 
 faithful soldier. 
 
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 Sergeant Company C 
 
 Died May 30, 1918 at Hospital 
 No. 2, Baccarat, France. 
 
 Buried May 31st in Baccarat 
 Cemetery, Grave No. 89. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. 
 Perry, Des Moines, Iowa. 
 
 Sergeant Perry was preparing 
 mess in the kitchen when the 
 Germans sent over several gas 
 shells. He died in the hospital 
 shortly afterwards. 
 
 Sergeant Perry had served on 
 the Mexican Border in 1916, 
 
 He received his education in 
 Denver, Colorado. 
 
 STALEY, WILLIAM A. 102434 
 
 Private Company L 
 
 Died May 30, 1918 at Baccarat, 
 France, in Evacuation Hospital, 
 No. 2. 
 
 Buried May 31st in Baccarat 
 Cemetery, Grave No. 90. 
 
 Relative's address: Miss Alva 
 Staley, Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
 
 Staley did not recover from the 
 shock of the tremendous ex- 
 plosion in the gas attack in time 
 to get his mask on, and died a 
 short time later. 
 
 Private Staley died as became 
 an American soldier, enduring 
 his suffering without a word. 
 
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 100182 
 
 Corporal Company B 
 
 Killed May 30, 1918 at Badon- 
 villier, France. 
 
 Buried May 31st in Baccarat 
 Cemetery, Grave No. 87. 
 
 Son of Mr, and Mrs. B. Lech- 
 ner, Cedar Falls, Iowa. 
 
 Corporal Lechner was wounded 
 by a hand grenade in the raid 
 at Badonvillier, and died in the 
 hospital. Before being killed, 
 he and his squad engaged in 
 hand to hand fighting with the 
 enemy and took six German 
 prisoners. 
 
 Corporal Lechner was a mem- 
 ber of the platoon that received 
 the "Croix de Guerre" for gal- 
 lantry in action on March 5th. 
 
 HUXTABLE, WAYNE E. 99408 
 
 Private Headquarters Company 
 Died May 30th from gas re- 
 ceived May 27, 1918. 
 Buried in Baccarat Cemetery, 
 Grave No. 88. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Hux- 
 table, Le Mars, Iowa. 
 When the Germans sent over a 
 heavy gas attack, the men 
 rushed out of their dug-outs to 
 the alert posts to repel the at- 
 tack. The suddenness of the 
 attack and the excitment was 
 such that some of the men, not 
 realizing the deadliness of the 
 phosgene gas and thinking that 
 they could fight better without 
 their masks, were careless of 
 their own safety. Huxtable 
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 Private Company L 
 
 Died June 6th of gas received 
 May 29, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Baccarat Cemetery, 
 Grave No. 103. 
 
 Relative's address : Geo. Saul, 
 Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
 
 Price fought bravely against 
 great odds to overcome the gas 
 that he inhaled in the gas attack 
 on Village Negre. He quietly 
 obeyed all instructions, but died 
 in the hospital at Baccarat. 
 
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 Private First Class, Company C 
 
 Died June 3rd, 1918. 
 
 Buried June 4th in Baccarat 
 Cemetery, Grave No. 94. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Martha Walter- 
 man, Kamarer, Iowa. 
 
 Private Walterman v^ras in the 
 rear of the trenches when Ger- 
 mans threw gas shells in the 
 camp area, and he was gassed 
 severely, which resulted in his 
 death. 
 
 LINDSAY, WILLIAM C. 101475 
 Private Company G 
 Killed June 5, 1918 at Badon- 
 villier, in the front line trenches. 
 Buried June 6th in Pexonne 
 Cemetery, Grave No. 30. 
 Private Lindsay, in company 
 with several others, forming a 
 combat patrol was sent out. 
 The patrol encountered the 
 enemy and they opened fire. 
 The enemy brought up some 
 light machine guns and Lindsay 
 was mortally wounded by a 
 machine gun bullet while in the 
 act of firing a rifle grenade. 
 He was the first man of Com- 
 pany G to be killed. 
 Private Lindsay was a friend to 
 every one and constantly con- 
 ducted himself as a soldier. 
 Relative's address: J. H. Staton, 
 Ottumwa, Iowa. 
 
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 Corporal Company I 
 
 Captured by the Germans, after 
 being severely wounded on 
 June 16th. He died at Cirey 
 the following day. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Julius 
 Chambers, Park Avenue, Des 
 Moines, Iowa. 
 
 Harry Chambers was one of 
 nineteen volunteers who went 
 out on a daylight patrol in No 
 Man's Land to attempt to re- 
 cover the body of one of their 
 comrades who had been killed a 
 few minutes before in a fight 
 with an enemy patrol. 
 
 HOUCHIN, MICHAEL 
 
 Private Company I 
 
 Missing June 16, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Mary Strode, Bur- 
 lington, Iowa. 
 
 Private Houchin was a member 
 of the patrol, which went out 
 into No Man's Land to recover 
 the body of a comrade, and as 
 yet, we have no official report 
 as to his death or burial. Sev- 
 eral of the men were caught in 
 a trap, but received no definite 
 word of Private Houchin. 
 
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 KING, EARL S. 100270 
 
 Private Company B 
 
 Died June 16, 1918 of wounds 
 received at Badonvillier, France. 
 Buried June 18th. 
 
 Born at Gladbrook, Iowa, Julv 
 28, 1897. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. 
 King, Waterloo, Iowa. 
 
 Private King was wounded by a 
 pistol bullet while on post at 
 Badonvillier, dying later in the 
 hospital. After he had been 
 shot, he engaged in hand to 
 hand fighting with the Germans. 
 Private King was a member of 
 the Second Platoon which re- 
 ceived the Croix de Guerre for 
 gallantry in action, March 5th. 
 
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 Private Company K 
 
 Killed June 16, 1918 at Badon- 
 villier, in the front line. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Rose Cahill, Lans- 
 ing, Michigan. 
 
 Private Cahill was on a small 
 daylight patrol in No Man's 
 Land which had gone out to in- 
 vestigate unusual activity in the 
 enemy front line. He was hit 
 in the head by a German sniper 
 and died instantly. 
 
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 Private Company L 
 
 Died June 17, 1918 at Field Hos- 
 pital No. 168. 
 
 Buried in Baccarat Cemetery, 
 Grave No. 113. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Mor- 
 row, Ponoka, Alberta, Canada. 
 
 Private Morrow had been with 
 the company in all their trench 
 experience. He was in the gas 
 attack of May 29th and never 
 fully recovered his health. He 
 valiantly did his best to finish 
 his part in the fight, but was 
 sent to the hospital in the early 
 part of June, where he died a 
 few days later. 
 
 Born at Mondamin, Iowa, Aug- 
 ust 27, 1898. 
 
 BALDWIN, ALONZO F. 
 
 Private First Class Machine Gun 
 Company 
 
 Killed June 18, 1918, at Pex- 
 onne, France. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 32, Pex- 
 onne Cemetery. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. D. 
 Baldwin, Des Moines, Iowa. 
 
 Private Baldwin was working in 
 the kitchen, when a high explo- 
 sive fell and exploded in the 
 kitchen, killing him instantly. 
 
 He had been through the at- 
 tacks of March 5th and May 
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 Private Company B 
 Died June 20, 1918 at the hos- 
 pital in Baccarat, 
 Buried in Baccarat Cemetery, 
 Grave No. 120. 
 
 Private Hair w^as wounded by a 
 high explosive shell at a reserve 
 position in Lorraine, dying later 
 in the hospital. 
 
 He was popular among his 
 comrades. His platoon ser- 
 geant said : "I have lost the best 
 man in B Company." 
 His platoon was cited on March 
 5th. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Hair, 
 Early, Iowa. 
 
 Private Hair was a graduate of 
 Early High School. 
 
 BLAYNEY, HUBERT 
 
 99730 
 
 Private Machine Gnn Company 
 
 Died in Hospital No. 2 at Pex- 
 onne, France. 
 
 Buried June 20, 1918 in Grave 
 No. 115, Baccarat Cemetery. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbery 
 Blayney, Olin, Iowa. 
 
 Private Blayney was working 
 in the kitchen when a shell ex- 
 ploded near him. He was in- 
 jured so severely that he died 
 shortly after being removed to 
 the hospital at Baccarat. 
 
 Born at Olin, Iowa, January 31, 
 1896. 
 
 Graduate of Olin High School 
 in 1914, also graduate of High- 
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 Private Company A 
 Died June 21, 1918 in hospital 
 at Baccarat. 
 
 Buried in Baccarat Cemetery, 
 Grave No. 118. 
 
 Relative's address: Mrs. Will- 
 ard Usher, Stuart, Iowa. 
 Private O'Laughlin was wound- 
 
 / ed fatally by a piece of high ex- 
 plosive shell that hit him in the 
 left side on June 19, 1918. 
 He was wounded at Pexonne 
 during bombardment there the 
 night we were relieved by the 
 French. 
 
 In the trenches at Lorraine he 
 did very good work. 
 
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 Cook Machine Gun Company 
 
 Died in Evacuation Hospital No. 
 2 from wounds received June 
 18, 1918. 
 
 Buried June 22nd in Baccarat 
 Cemetery, Grave No. 119. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mc- 
 Beth, Des Moines, Iowa. 
 
 Cook McBeth was wounded 
 while at work in the kitchen. A 
 high explosive shell dropped in 
 the kitchen and exploded, wound- 
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 COOPER, HEDLEY H, 
 
 Y.M. C. A. Secretary 
 Killed May 27, 1918 at village of 
 Negre. 
 
 Hedley Cooper came to our regi- 
 ment but a few days before the 
 regiment experienced one of its 
 most terrible gas attacks. He 
 was in the very front line posi- 
 tion, where he had a small can- 
 teen in a dugout. When the at- 
 tack commenced Cooper donned 
 his gas mask and went out to see 
 what he could do to help. Ser- 
 geanT Wintrode of Company A 
 says Cooper came to him and 
 volunteered to help in any way 
 he could so Wintrode let him 
 pilot a detail of men with am- 
 munition down to the front line 
 and while doing so was killed. 
 The Reverend Cooper was born 
 
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 SMITH, HALLIDAY S. 
 
 Y. M. C. A. Secretary with 168th 
 
 Infantry 
 Killed May 27, 1918 at village of 
 Negre, front line trenches. 
 When the attack broke on morn- 
 ing of May 27, Smith went 
 over to Cooper's dugout and the 
 two Y men went forward to the 
 front position to assist in the 
 care of wounded. A gas shell 
 burst near them and they did not 
 realize its deadly nature until' 
 after a breath had been taken. 
 Smith was immediately overcome 
 and born from the field. He died 
 before he could reach the hospi- 
 tal. Smith had been a clerk in 
 the Union Square Savings Bank 
 at Nyack, N. Y. He had served 
 three years in the 7th Regiment 
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 Private Company M. 
 Killed May 15, 1918 in the 
 trenches. 
 
 Buried in Pexonne Cemetery, 
 Grave No. 16. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Hub- 
 bell, Atlantic, Iowa. 
 During the night of May 15, 
 1918. our guns were bombarding 
 the German front line positions. 
 The shells from one of our 
 batteries kept falling within our 
 own lines, and we could not tell 
 from which gun they were com- 
 ing. Our artillerymen were noti- 
 fied, but failed to remedy the 
 evil. One of the shells entered 
 our own dug-out and killed Max 
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WHEN the regiment was relieved from the duty in Lorraine, we 
 moved back to the land of the Moselle and entrained and started 
 westward. After a twenty-f our-ho ur railroad journey, we arrived in 
 the valley of the Marne, and our regimental headquarters were located 
 at St. Amend. 
 
 Here we rested for five days, played ball, had concerts and bathed in 
 the river. What a relief it was, after the four tiresome months in the 
 trenches to be free again, but our freedom was of short duration. On June 
 27 we were transferred to the Fourth Army, commanded by General 
 Gouraud, one of the highest honored and best loved generals in the 
 French Army, and at once were ordered to make a thirty-five kilometer 
 march toward the front. Early the next morning we dragged into the 
 little town of Courtsols where we rested until the night before the fourth 
 of July, 
 
 We were now in the famous Camp De Chalons country, on ground 
 that has been made famous by past history. The Romans had made 
 great highways through this country, and there were many camps and 
 villages that bore names that carried one back to the days when Attila 
 and Saracens had battled here. Here the French had conducted a great 
 offensive in 1917 and this same country was taken by the Germans in 
 1914. This country is vividly described by Colonel Walter Wolf in his 
 story of the Rainbow Division. He says, "It was into this sector we 
 moved, the arid and outlandish part of Champagne, with not a vineyard, 
 not a garden and not a field of wheat — known because of its meagreness 
 as the 'lousy Champagne.' It was very white and very desolate, the 
 scrubby trees were dwarfed and gnarled, and with their patchy foliage 
 merely emphasized the blankness and glare of the scene, Heather- 
 bounded chalk was everywhere, chalk reflected the heat and kept the cool 
 of the ground within, made the road firm and readily afforded deep dug- 
 outs of great strength and resisting power. The only touch of color up- 
 on the width of these plains was the thick poppy field, then full blown." 
 
 It was amidst this weird scene, over these dreary roads, that we 
 marched on July 4 into the battered town of Suippes, and from there into 
 Camp 3-5 and 4-5 and into the wooded position. Here we became a part 
 of General Gouraud's Army of D efense ; two divisions of French and our 
 own Rainbow Division made up the troops that were assigned to this po- 
 sition, in which we were informed the Germans would throw the full 
 power of their strength. Against us there were massed nine divisions of 
 the Boche, who were planning an offensive 
 in which they expected to overwhelmingly 
 defeat us, to drive through and capture the 
 Marne River towns and force a quick con- 
 clusion of the war. 
 
 When we moved into our camps all was 
 quiet and still. Scarcely a gun was fired 
 during the day and occasionally a lone air- 
 
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plane circled above our lines ; otherwise in the daytime an observer would 
 little have dreamed that a great battle was soon to be fought here. Our 
 own boys who loafed during the day, as soon as the touch of darkness 
 covered the land, worked with feverish haste digging trenches, swinging 
 guns into position, bringing up ammunition, preparing for the greatest 
 conflict in which it had ever been their privilege to play a part. From 
 the night of July 8 until the night of the 14th, our boys were called to the 
 alert position shortly before midnight and stood thus until just before 
 dawn in the morning. We were taking no chances of a German surprise 
 attack. 
 
 General Gouraud sent us the following order: 
 
 "To the French and American soldiers of the Fourth Army: We 
 may be attacked at any moment. You all know that a defensive bat- 
 tle was never engaged under more favorable conditions. We are 
 awake and on our guard. We are powerfully reinforced with infantry 
 and artillery. You will fight on a terrain, that you have transformed 
 by your work and perseverance into a redoubtable fortress. This 
 fortress will be invincible and all the entrances are well guarded. 
 
 The bombardment will be terrible. You will support it without 
 weakness. The assault will be fierce, in a cloud of smoke, dust and 
 gas, but your position and your armament are formidable. In your 
 breast beats the brave and strong hearts of free men. 
 
 None shall glance to the rear, none shall yield a step. Each shall 
 have but one thought, to kill many until they have had their fill. 
 
 That is why your General says to you, 'You will break this assault 
 and it will be a happy day'." 
 
 With the words of this brave general ringing in our ears, we waited 
 for the attack to commence. Night after night in the clear moonlight with 
 rifle by our side, we strengthened our positions and wondered if the at- 
 tack would come before morning. Our division had never taken part in a 
 great battle and now we were to be suddenly thrown into a fight on which 
 would hang the whole history of civilization. The Germans had broken 
 the British lines on the left in March and had driven through for thirty-five 
 kilometers. In May, they broke the French line and drove through clear 
 to the Marne river, and captured Chateau Thierry, forcing the French 
 back forty-seven kilometers. Now, the enemy was to attempt an even 
 greater attack and we were to have part in resisting his assault. 
 
 Never shall I forget the night of that battle. The air was tense with 
 the coming tragedy. At the moment darkness began, ammunition was 
 
 rushed to the front, artillery teams came 
 swinging up, quickly unloaded their shells and 
 galloped back after further supplies. Mes- 
 sengers were dashing up on motorcycles in 
 the dark and dashing quickly away again. 
 Officers were feverishly writing messages, 
 runners nervous and excited, were carrying 
 these messages to every part of the line. By 
 
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10 o'clock all was in readiness and for two long hours we stood and 
 waited for that battle to begin. The moon was shining softly, slipping 
 from behind first one lazy floating cloud and then another. The breeze 
 sighed softly among the scraggy pines as though moaning over the trag- 
 edy that the rising sun would witness. Men talked in nervous tones, 
 laughed over things that were not laughable and smoked furiously at 
 their cigarettes. Many a fellow gave a last message that night to the 
 comrade by his side and told him to carry it back to some loved one wait- 
 ing for him, for no man knew whether fate would be kind or unkind to 
 him before morning and many a fellow, perhaps for the first time in his 
 life, looked up at the stars that were shining so softly above him and 
 thought of the Creator into whose presence he knew many of his buddies 
 and possibly himself would enter in a few hours. Men do not often pray 
 in battle but many of them prayed this night. They prayed to the Great 
 Father to give them the courage to die as bravely as their comrades had 
 died in Lorraine, to give them the strength to endure the long hours of 
 bombardment and to conquer the fear that was tugging at their hearts. 
 I cannot but believe that the Master, who went through Gethsemane un- 
 derstood those men, who were trying so bravely to follow in His footsteps. 
 
 At twenty minutes to twelve our own guns opened with a roar that 
 shook the earth about us. Four hundred and fifty guns were pouring a 
 steady stream of shells into the enemy's lines and our boys lay there in 
 the trenches and chuckled to themselves at what a nice surprise the 
 enemy was receiving. 
 
 Promptly at 12 o'clock or 12:10 the enemy's guns opened with a ter- 
 rible roar and the roar of his screaming, bursting shells smothered the 
 sound of our own guns. Never have I seen such a bombardment. Trees 
 were torn up by the roots, dust and rocks were whirled in every direction, 
 men's bodies were blown into atoms, horses were slaughtered by the thou- 
 sands and many of them wounded, broke their halter ropes or dashed 
 away from their drivers, screaming and neighing in their pain. Our 
 camps were on fire, every road, trench, path of shelter of any kind was 
 under a continuous and terrific fire. Airplanes by the hundreds were cir- 
 cling overhead, dropping bombs on our artillery and amidst all this the 
 stretcher-bearers came down the road with white faces, but with jaws set, 
 carrying their wounded comrades, placing them in ambulances which 
 dashed quickly away with them to the temporary hospitals in the rear. 
 
 Our own little aid station, under the command of Major Henry Bunch 
 and Lieutenant Neil Van Meter had from fifty to one hundred wounded 
 and dying men lying there under the open 
 sky with no shelter of any kind. A battery 
 of the One Hundred Fifty-first Field Artillery 
 that was across the road was firing as rapidly 
 as it could. Its little guns were barking vi- 
 ciously toward the approaching enemy and a 
 large German gun was sending its huge shells, 
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which were causing him such terrible losses. Light had just begun to 
 dawn in the east as a boy was brought in and laid down by the side of the 
 path and Lieutenant Neil Van Meter came to me and said, "Better speak to 
 that lad, Chaplain, he is wounded pretty bad, won't last but a few minutes." 
 
 I went over and knelt down by his side. A shell had crashed through 
 his foot and cut away the ankle entirely. A piece of slug had gone through 
 his left leg above the knee and he had wrapped a wire about it and 
 twisted a stick in it to stop the flow of blood. His left arm had been shat- 
 tered at his side and he lay there so still and white, but with never a cry 
 coming from between his lips. 
 
 and between his 
 I guess I'll make it." 
 my boy, 
 
 I said, "How are you coming, old chap?' 
 clenched teeth, cheerfully he said, "All right, I guess, 
 "Lad, you are wounded worse than you think, and you can't live 
 you will be dead in less than a half hour." 
 
 He was rather startled at this, and said, "Am I going to die. Chaplain?" 
 I said, "Yes, lad." And then I asked "Is there anything I can do for you?" 
 He said, "Yes, will you write and tell my mother. Chaplain, all about it?" 
 I said I would and he seemed content. He asked me to pay a few francs 
 to a comrade of his, and I said, "Isn't there anything else lad, that you want 
 to say for yourself before you go?" He said, "I guess not, but will you 
 give me a cigarette?" I lighted it and gave it to him and he lay there and 
 smoked, drawing the smoke into his lungs and blew it out through his 
 nose. He seemed to take great comfort in it. He looked up at me, blew 
 out another puff of smoke and smiled so coolly up into my face. I turned 
 away to hide my tears and after working with some others a few mo- 
 ments, I came back. His cigarette was still burning between his fingers, 
 but he was lying there, his pale set face so boyish, was cold in death. And 
 thus he died without a cry coming from between his lips. 
 
 This is only one example that I can give of all those glorious men, 
 both French and American, who died in this greatest battle of modern 
 times. 
 
 Of this battle, a writer in the French paper, Illustration of July 27, 
 1918, gives a vivid account and I will quote from it: 
 
 "ON THE CHAMPAGNE BATTLE FIELD." 
 "THE VICTORIOUS DEFENSE OF CHALONS." 
 
 On July 15, just a week ago, the Germans launched the offensive 
 which we had been expecting for several weeks. 
 
 It was developed with the usual fury, 
 was meticulously prepared as always, against 
 two of our armies, on a front of more than 
 eighty kilometers, between Chateau Thierry 
 on the West and the famous Main de Mas- 
 siges on the East. This time it was the Group 
 of Armies of the Imperial Crown Prince — the 
 armies of Von Boehn, Von Mudra and Von 
 
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Einem — which made the attack. It is then to the heir of the Hohenzollerns 
 that this abrupt check to the fifth attack of the year must be charged. 
 
 From the first day the enemy's failure was certain. Only on his right 
 wing did he gain any appreciable advantage ; crossing the Marne at several 
 points between Fossoy and Oeuilly, and on both sides of Dormans. How- 
 ever, he found himself, at the bottom of this loop in a strip of the valley 
 between the river and a line of heights solidly held by our soldiers, in a 
 very precarious condition as following events proved for, in the night of 
 July 19-20, he was forced to cross back to the north bank. 
 
 At the center, in front of Rheims, the offensive was limited to a dem- 
 onstration. In reality he attempted to reduce the Montague de Rheims 
 and capture the unhappy city. 
 
 But to the East on his left wing where the Germans attacked the 
 army of General Gouraud, the affair showed for us the light of a magnifi- 
 cent, victorious defensive, one of the most characteristic, as well as one of 
 the most successful defensive of battles — as will be seen in the future — 
 of this formidable war. 
 
 Moreover, it was there, I think, that he intended to make a powerful 
 effort. The stake was no less than Chalons-sur-Marne, the Catalonic 
 plains where Aetius had already saved the Latin world its freedom and its 
 civilization." 
 
 The day before this battle opened General Gouraud was happy and 
 confident. His plans had been well laid and he was eager for the battle, 
 but this is better told by the French writer than I can tell it myself, and so 
 I quote again from his article : 
 
 On what was based this tranquil serenity of the chief on the day be- 
 fore an attack, which was sure to prove so formidable, which had been 
 prepared with that rigorous care of which we were already well aware 
 and for which the most powerful means available would be used. On an 
 absolute confidence in the valor of his soldiers and on the excellence of 
 the plan of defense. 
 
 It consisted in leaving on the advance line, exposed to the preparatory 
 bombardments, to the hot deluge from minewerfer, only slight forces, 
 small groups of lost children, under the command of resolute indefati- 
 gable officers charged first and above all with warning the rear of the pre- 
 cise moment of the attack when the assault waves would be thrown for- 
 ward. The men to whom were confided these posts of honor were sacri- 
 ficed beforehand and knew it. It remained for them but to die a glorious 
 death. It shall be seen that they did not fail at any point. Some of their 
 number, moved by a great spirit, performed prodigies of valor. On that 
 day the Aces were numbered by hundreds. What more can I say? The 
 blazing trail of rockets shooting to the early morning sky did not even call 
 for help. They signalled to their brothers, to their avengers, the danger: 
 "Here comes the enemy." 
 
 Behind this advance line, separated from it by an open space, was 
 
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another undulating line on the plain ; it was this line which was to break 
 if built, were like the pebbles of the strand, around which breaks the 
 foaming, mounting tide. Cut at first, and it was cut two or three times at 
 some points, it accomplished its role in retarding the forward march of the 
 enemy. It stopped the enemy three hours — three hours of bloody hecta- 
 combs for him. It was the cause of his disaster. The victory was de- 
 cided there on that line of redoubts of the advance elements, in front 
 even of the real line of defense. 
 
 This disposition would be good only on condition that all was in its 
 place at the moment of the commencement of the attack. It implied a rig- 
 orous surveillance at all times of the movements of the enemy. No one 
 knew whether the German, skilled in camouflaging, would be able to hide 
 his preparations. That explains the aggressive activity shown at all times 
 by the Gouraud army and which was still more increased during the last 
 weeks while they waited with growing impatience each day for the great 
 event. There was always a raid going on at some point or other. This 
 was the triumph of astute vigilance. 
 
 Since the beginning of June an offensive on a grand scale was ex- 
 pected on the front of the army. As time passed many indications an- 
 nounced the imminence of the attack, — indications that were noted. It is 
 known that the front opposite of the Eleventh Army, and no doubt 
 the whole front, was equipped for a sudden attack for several months. 
 Little by little one saw the increase in circulation on the railroads ; the mu- 
 nition dumps growing, the aviation fields being prepared. The front, how- 
 ever, remained quiet and the artillery showed little activity. But one ob- 
 served, as was the case before the offensive of May 27th and that of 
 June 9th, for example, the fire by high bursts, — discreet procedure for the 
 regulation of the artillery. 
 
 Then, suddenly, on the 13th, behind the apparent immobility of the 
 front, one perceived a more intense movement on the narrow gauge rail- 
 roads, from the Suippe toward Epoye ; one scented the movement of 
 troops. The roads north of Suippes showed a little more animation also ; 
 wagons and individuals were on the march from north to south. The morn- 
 ing of the 14th wagons in greater number, but moving singly and not in 
 convoys, went back from the zone of the batteries; it could be guessed that 
 they had been supplying ammunition during the night. But the surest in- 
 formation was obtained from the almost daily raids to which, above, I 
 have made allusion. The soldiers knew the necessity of them. They took 
 part in them with enthusiasm. Their operations were fruitful during the 
 whole first fortnight. The communiques made note of some of them. 
 
 On July 6th came the first precise information, a simple intima- 
 tion that the attack was imminent on the Champagne front. On what ex- 
 tent of the front was still a mystery at that date. 
 
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On July 8th certain indications revealed to us aggressive plans without 
 as yet our being able to say exactly what they were. The following day 
 the General would give out his order ; of that there was not a shadow of a 
 doubt. 
 
 By July 10 the date of the attack was better established by our infor- 
 mation service; it would take place July 14 or 15. The zone involved 
 would be the zone of the Fourth Army as far as Mont Teton on the East. 
 We have at last the details of the preparations. 
 
 July 11, 12 and 13 gave confirmation of everything. Finally, on the 
 14th, a detachment led by a lieutenant, fighting like a whirlwind, carried 
 out the best of all the raids and the one which gave the best results ob- 
 tained in several weeks. It was then learned that the attack was merely 
 a question of hours; the artillery preparation would commence at ten min- 
 utes past midnight. At 4:15 A.M. the infantry would leave the trenches 
 under cover of a rolling barrage. 
 
 It seems that such precautions astonished — and even left a little bit 
 skeptical — the staff of the fine and valiant American Division which that 
 day fought with us. A little later they declared themselves delighted that 
 the event had proved they had been mistaken. 
 
 VICTORY IN A FEW HOURS. 
 
 Whatever might happen the Army was ready. Kept informed from 
 day to day of the situation Generals Foch and Petain had approved the 
 dispositions taken and had given the command of the Fourth Army 
 troops necessary to assure the execution of the same. In war it is always 
 necessary to reckon with the unexpected, fate, luck, call it what you will, 
 but as everything had been done to meet it they could count upon an 
 infallible success. The order of the day of the 7th reflects this semi- 
 certitude. 
 
 On July 14th at 11:00 P. M. General Gouraud gave the order to 
 begin the counter-offensive preparation. It was launched a half hour later 
 forestalling the German bombardment. 
 
 At the hour mentioned, at ten minutes past midnight, this bombard- 
 ment was launched with a terrible roar. It surprised no one. In this 
 period of expectation, where every day the attack was felt to be more 
 imminent, the commander of the army had been able to visit even the posts 
 of the Colonels and enable them to share his firm confidence. 
 
 Everybody was in place. The "position in readiness" so minutely 
 studied out was taken up. 
 
 The violence of our counter offensive fire surprised the enemy. Bat- 
 teries silent up to that time, and which had not been located, suddenly 
 revealed themselves, producing the infallible effect of surprise. 
 
 At 4:15 A. M. the rockets of the vigilant look-out men of the line of 
 observation ascended in the breaking dawn; the waves of assault rushed 
 
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forward. Then our own barrage descended like a whirlwind on our first 
 positions, where the enemy was arriving and which the German guns of 
 all calibers and the minewerfer had already hammered. The battle was 
 going to be enacted according to schedule. Luck was with us. Not a hitch. 
 
 In the same way that the observation detachments had done their 
 duty, the advance elements of the first line battalions were carrying on, 
 fulfilling the mission which had been entrusted to them, "to hold back and 
 disintegrate the enemy"; each man remained where duty commanded him 
 to hold. 
 
 Many of these must have fallen into the hands of the Germans. 
 News was received from some of them however. Thus, the Army Corps 
 which was fighting at the left of the front proudly recorded the heroic 
 attitude of a half section which, encircled, submerged by the wave which 
 overwhelmed it, sent at 6:30 A, M. a carrier pigeon to announce that it was 
 still holding. Another group resisted until 10:00 A. M. 
 
 On the line of redoubts, the Germans were stopped three full hours at 
 least. Even when certain of their elements had slipped between, many 
 little fortresses besieged, continued furiously to resist. 
 
 For example, the garrison of Mont san Non belonging to the same 
 regiment at this half section of which I have just spoken, to the same 
 therefore, which had made the twenty-seven prisoners some hours before 
 — Heavens ! how we should like to give more credit to these heroes, telling 
 more clearly who they are — the garrison under the orders of the Captain 
 remained besieged until 6:00 P. M., but always in liaison with the rear 
 especially by wireless telephone, so well had the dispositions been taken. 
 And it kept the command in touch with the course of the fight. The Bat- 
 talion Commander himself was surrounded not far from there in his com- 
 mand post with a part of his men. All of them made the same stubborn 
 resistance to the assaults of the enemy, and it was only when the author- 
 ization had been given for the same, and after they had exhausted all 
 their munitions and accomplished the destruction provided for, that the 
 Major, the Captain, and their two small garrisons retired, forcing a pass- 
 age by bayonet and bringing back prisoners. A Lieutenant of the Chas- 
 seurs a Pied accomplished a similar exploit. How many others also ! A 
 regiment in the center which repulsed eleven successive attacks was cited. 
 
 But from the first minutes of the attack, so to speak, they saw clearly 
 that it was a failure for the enemy. 
 
 The initial resistance which he was not expecting had disconcerted 
 him. The minute clock work of this too precise machine was suddenlv 
 thrown out of gear. 
 
 While the attacking troops had arrived before the line of redoubts, 
 all the machinery behind them was continuing to function according to the 
 schedule based on the hypothesis of a victorious progress. The barrage 
 rolled rhythmically far in advance of the furious waves breaking against 
 the dyke which was resisting them, and the furious divisions of the second 
 
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line, fully convinced that the first were pursuing their regular advance like 
 the hands of a clock, had advanced behind them at the appointed hour; 
 then motor convoys, supply wagons, horse-drawn batteries, in columns on 
 the roads — into all that our artillerymen fired with open sights, pounding, 
 grinding, unceasingly, the men, the heavy trucks and the horses. Never has 
 any one seen such fine hecatombs. At the source of the Ain, on that little 
 hillock which General Marchand used to love and which he called "Place 
 de rOpera," seventy corpses were lying in one heap. But it was perhaps in 
 the region of the "Monts" which he had just abandoned during the night in 
 conformance with the plans of the command, that the carnage was the fin- 
 est. They were seen to appear on the crests, at present denuded, where 
 no cover masked them from view, and then to plunge down the slopes 
 Magnificent targets ! "We were firing into the mass !" the gunners say. 
 
 At a certain moment in this region of the Monts, an artillery observer 
 reported that the Germans were in the act of forming an artillery park 
 under our noses. "It's a scandal," cried the captain of the battery. And 
 in a few shots the park was tended to. In their case the facility with which 
 they had crossed the line of alert, so thinly occupied, had given them the 
 illusion of a successful advance. It is thus what a captain in command of a 
 tank section who was captured on the hill of Tabure at the moment when 
 he had just written and preparing to send the following message: 
 
 "Tabure Hill, July 15th, 7:00 A. M. 
 
 The five tanks have all crossed the first enemy line and are continu- 
 ing to advance toward the Wardberk where the enemy possesses numer- 
 ous machine gun nests. I am going to Somme-Suippes, continuing the pur- 
 suit of the enemy and will return afterwards." 
 
 They did lead him to Somme-Suippes to the command post of the 
 General and there they said to him: "Well, you've reached it." But the 
 jest was not to his taste. 
 
 Here was the situation at 7:00 A. M. At the right our advance ele- 
 ments were holding well on all the line of redoubts ; in the center the 
 enemy was in contact with our intermediate position ; at the left the press- 
 ure was intense between the Ferme des Marquises and the Maison du 
 Garde ; the enemy reached the Roman road and the woods southeast of 
 Prunay. 
 
 At noon, according to the expression of one of the Army Corps Com- 
 manders, "Their legs were broken." Their offensive was smashed. Vic- 
 tory was ours. 
 
 "A great personage," said one of the first prisoners, "is observing this 
 from up there." In fact the German emperor, as formerly from the top 
 of the Grand Couronne he watched for the moment to rush upon Nancy, 
 was waiting on Mount Blano, in Ludendorif's house, for the hour to enter 
 Chalons. Thus he was able to see another of his dreams fade. 
 
 LAST PLUNGES 
 At two points only had the attack penetrated our intermediate line ; to 
 
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the north of Prosnes and at Perthnes-le-Hurlus, carried for a moment and 
 then retaken by us. These modest gains were only momentary for the 
 enemy. 
 
 On the 16th, however, he resumed the charge. He had not re- 
 nounced the hope of getting a foothold on our position of resistance. 
 
 Between the Vesle and the Suippe he attacked the first time at 10:00 
 A. M. and again at 1 :15 P. M. He was repulsed on both occasions and 
 left numerous bodies on the ground. 
 
 East of the Suippe he attacked three times. He was always repulsed 
 in disorder. 
 
 In the morning, after a strong artillery preparation, he charged for- 
 ward with strong forces south of the Maison Champagne. He did not suc- 
 ceed in gaining even the principal parallel of our intermediate position. 
 
 In the night of the 16th-17th he made a new attack in the region of 
 Auberive, but with as little success. In return, we on our side, regained 
 some terrain in the sector of Balcon, at Beausejour and retook a redoubt 
 which he had abandoned, 
 
 A great artillery activity reigned during the entire day of the 17th on 
 our side. It was a destructive fire on the enemy's batteries, harassing and 
 interdiction fire, and even fire on moving targets. Thus at the Trou-Bri- 
 cott, of famous memory, groups occupied in trying to release two tanks in 
 distress, were taken under our fire and obliged — those who could get away 
 — to leave their task. 
 
 Our infantrymen were none the less impetuous. To the east, the days 
 of the 17th and 18th they had reoccupied, despite a bitter resistance, all 
 the line of the redoubts of the first position, and on the entire front recon- 
 quered certain points necessary to the security of our position of resistance. 
 
 And that was the end of the battle. In reality the decisive phase had 
 lasted about four hours. 
 
 (A little farther in his article the writer again pays tribute to our Divi- 
 sion.) 
 
 They had in their midst in the most perfect fraternity of arms, 
 an American division. It esteemed it an honor to rival them in courage and 
 nerve. Its men went under fire as into a football game, in shirtsleeves, 
 with their sleeves rolled up over nervous biceps. In a trench where they 
 were operating in concert with our Chasseurs, sixty corpses were counted 
 on a field of two hundred and fifty meters. Ah! the Germans who saw 
 them at work can no longer doubt that they are there and indeed, as our 
 troopers say, "certainly there." 
 
 This was a fine tribute paid to our troops by their brave French com- 
 
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rades and doubly appreciated because it was our first great battle. The 
 next day, the 19th, General Naulin, commander of the Twenty-first French 
 Army Corp, issued the following order: 
 
 "21st Army Corps, 
 
 Staff, 
 
 3d Bureau, 
 
 No. 2.595-3 
 
 Headquarters, July 19, 1918. 
 
 GENERAL ORDER 
 
 At the moment when the Forty-second American Division is on 
 the point of leaving the Twenty-first Army Corps, I desire to express 
 my keen satisfaction and my sincere thanks for the services which 
 it has rendered under all conditions. 
 
 By its valor, ardor and its spirit, it has very particularly distin- 
 guished itself on July 15th and 16th in the course of the great battle 
 where the Fourth Army broke the German offensive on the Cham- 
 pagne front. 
 
 I am proud to have had it under my orders during this period ; 
 my prayers accompany it in the great struggle engaged in for the 
 liberty of the World. 
 
 GENERAL NAULIN, 
 Commanding the 21st Army Corps. 
 
 (Signed) Naulin. 
 
 This order filled our hearts with pride for we had done that which we 
 craved to do, we had won the admiration and love of the brave French 
 troops, which we so much admired. That night when the orders came, we 
 marched away to new scenes, into new battles, but as we passed over the 
 hill we glanced back to where our comrades 
 had fought so gloriously and died to gamely. 
 The roar of battle was hushed and the still 
 and quiet of the evening had settled down 
 over their couch where we laid them to rest. 
 There beside the Sommes Suippes road the 
 traveler-by of the future will pause and re- 
 member as he sees the little crosses standing, 
 that there the American soldiers, five thou- 
 sand miles from home, fought and died to 
 save France and the world. And it is in true 
 appreciation that I record here the names, 
 faces and gallant deeds of our heroic dead. 
 May the reader, as he looks into their boyish 
 countenances, appreciate the sacrifice which 
 they made. 
 
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 VEASEY, ED J. 
 
 Second Lieutenant Company F 
 
 Killed July 15, 1918 at Cham- 
 pagne Front in the town of 
 Suippes. 
 
 Relative's address: Mrs. E. J. 
 Veasey, 478 Northwest Street, 
 Lima, Ohio. 
 
 Lieutenant Veasey was a quiet 
 gentlemanly fellow, was a good 
 officer and very popular with 
 his men. He had been assigned 
 to duty as acting Zone Major in 
 the town of Suippes. During 
 the heavy shelling of the town 
 on the morning of July 15th he 
 was wounded and sent to the 
 hospital where he died a short 
 time later. 
 
 KENDALL, HARRY N. 100817 
 
 First Sergeant Company E 
 Killed July 15, 1918 Northeast 
 of Suippes at Camp 3/5. 
 Buried July 17th near Camp 
 3/5, Grave No. 15, Map No. 3. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Ken- 
 dall, Shenandoah, Iowa. 
 Sergeant Kendall was of the 
 highest type of a soldier. Dur- 
 ing three years' service on the 
 Mexican Border and in France 
 he had risen to the rank of First 
 Sergeant of Company E. He 
 had been selected to go to Offi- 
 cers' Training School three days 
 later. In the early hours of the 
 Champagne Battle he started to 
 move his men to a safer posi- 
 tion ; he had just ordered the 
 last squad out of their present 
 quarters when a shell hit him 
 and killed him instantly. 
 
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 BIESENTHAL, ARTHUR 101416 
 
 Private Company G 
 
 Killed July 15, 1918 at Cham- 
 pagne, Camp 3/5. 
 
 Buried July 16, 1918 in Grave 
 No. 36, Map No. 3. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Biesen- 
 thal, Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 The litter bearers having be- 
 come exhausted from carrying 
 , wounded to the Aid Station, 
 Lieutenant Rubel, in command 
 at that time, called for volun- 
 teers to relieve them. Private 
 Biesenthal wras one of the first 
 to volunteer. A shell burst 
 lied him instantly. 
 
 BEBEE, CLARENCE L. 101513 
 
 Private Company G 
 Killed July 15, 1918 at Cham- 
 pagne near Camp 3/5. 
 Buried July 16, 1918, Grave No. 
 23, Map No, 3. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Nellie Bebee, 
 Waterloo, Iowa. 
 
 Private Bebee was sitting out- 
 side his dug-out at Camp 3/5, 
 which was a support position of 
 the Brigade. The enemy were 
 concentrating a heavy fire on 
 tbe Camp. A shell burst near 
 the dug-out of Private Bebee 
 and a fragment penetrated his 
 skull, killing him instantly. 
 Private Bebee was a good sol- 
 dier constantly devoted to duty. 
 Born near Masonville, Iowa, 
 December 8, 1889. 
 
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 Private Company G 
 
 Killed July 15, 1918 at Cham- 
 pagne near Camp 3/5. 
 
 Relative's address : Don Cook, 
 Maben, West Virginia. 
 
 The dug-out allotted to Com- 
 pany G was insufficient to 
 shelter the entire company and 
 part of the first platoon were 
 moved into a nearby communi- 
 cating trench. The enemy con- 
 centrated a heavy shell fire on 
 this trench. A fragment of 
 shell pierced the abdomen of 
 Private Cook and he died in- 
 stantly. 
 
 Private Cook was a quiet and 
 jinassuming fellow, but thor- 
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 Private Company M 
 
 Killed July 15, 1918 at the 
 Champagne Front. 
 
 Buried July 16th, Grave No. 34, 
 Map No. 3. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. 
 Weiss, Woodbine, Iowa. 
 
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 Private Weiss went through the 
 various training stations and 
 into the Lorraine with the regi- 
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 pagne Front he was killed by a 
 high explosive shell while go- 
 ing to his post. His absence 
 was a keen loss to his comrades 
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 Private Company M 
 Killed July 15, 1918 at the 
 Champagne Front. 
 Buried in Grave No, 33, Map 
 No. 3. 
 
 Private Van Oyen had just re- 
 covered from a bayonet wound 
 received in the trenches at Lor- 
 raine. He was killed while 
 going to his post at the alarm 
 signal. 
 
 Private Van Oyen was not an 
 American but a Belgian, and did 
 not forget his country in the 
 hour of need, 
 e was a good and fearless sol- 
 f// // 4ier and well liked by all with 
 whom he came in contact. 
 Emergency address : Emil Tyhs, 
 Fairfield, Iowa. 
 
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 Private Company M 
 
 Killed July 15, 1918 at Cham- 
 pagne. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 50, Map 
 No. 3. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. 
 Reed, Red Oak, Iowa. 
 
 Private Reed was gassed ouif 
 May 27th while carrying his)j 
 comrades to the dressing sta- 
 tion. He joined his company 
 on July 8th at Champagne, tak- 
 ing up his old duties. He was 
 hit by a shell as he was going 
 out to his post. Private Reed 
 was taken to a dressing station 
 where he died. 
 
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 Private Company I 
 
 Killed July 15th at Champagne 
 Front. 
 
 Buried July 16, 1918. Grave No. 
 32, Map No. 3. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Win- 
 ter, Ames, Iowa. 
 
 Private Winter was killed by a 
 high explosive shell as he was 
 collecting his equipment to go 
 to the dug-out during the bom- 
 bardment at Champagne. He 
 had shown his ability as a sol- 
 dier at all times on the Lorraine 
 nd Champagne Fronts. 
 
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 Private Company I 
 
 Killed July 15, 1918 at Cham- 
 pagne. 
 
 Buried July 16th, Grave No. 52, 
 Camp No. 3/5, Map No. 3. 
 
 Relative's address, J. A. Walsh, 
 174 W. 65th Street, New York 
 City. 
 
 Private Walsh was killed by a 
 high explosive shell. 
 
 He proved while on the Lor- 
 raine Front that he was a fine 
 soldier and a cool man under 
 fire. 
 
 Private Walsh was transferred 
 from the second Iowa to the 
 168th Infantry. 
 
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 Private Company I 
 
 Killed July 15, 1918 at Cham- 
 pagne. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 25, Map 
 No. 3. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Mary Pickrel, Glen- 
 wood, Iowa. 
 
 Private Pickrel was a general 
 favorite among all the men of 
 the company. Despite the fact 
 that he was quite young, he al- 
 ways-faced hardships without a 
 word of complaint and did his 
 share of the work as well as any 
 of his older comrades. He ren- 
 dered valuable service while on 
 the Lorraine Front. He was 
 killed by a shell striking near 
 the place he was sleeping. 
 
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 101900 
 
 Private Company I 
 
 Killed July 15, 1918 at Cham- 
 pagne. 
 
 Buried July 16th, Grave No. 54, 
 Map No. 3. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Ira M. 
 Foote, Stronghurst, Illinois. 
 
 During the bombardment on 
 the night of July 14 Private 
 Foote was hit by a shell which 
 killed him instantly. 
 
 Private Foote was always ag- 
 gressive, often volunteering to 
 go out in No Man's Land to in- 
 vestigate sounds of movement. 
 
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 101913 
 
 Private Company I 
 
 Killed July 15, 1918 at Cham- 
 pagne. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 51, Map 
 
 No. 3. 
 
 Son of Mr, and Mrs. Edwin 
 Kemble, Sterret, Texas. 
 
 Private Kemble was hit by a 
 piece of high explosive shell 
 while asleep in his shelter tent. 
 
 On the Lorraine Front he 
 proved to be a capable soldier, 
 being a member of the rifle 
 grenadier squad. He did excel- 
 lent work on the Champagne 
 Front. 
 
 MEYER, JOHN A. 302641 
 
 Private Company I 
 
 Killed July 15, 1918 at Cham- 
 pagne. 
 
 Buried July 16th, Grave No. 47, 
 Map No. 3. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph 
 Meyer, Warren, Mich. 
 
 Private Meyer volunteered to 
 secure some equipment that had 
 been left behind. While mak- 
 ing the trip he was killed by 
 shell fire. 
 
 Private Meyer was a member 
 of the Automatic Rifle Squad 
 and was always ready to do his 
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 Private Company I 
 
 Killed at Champagne July 15, 
 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 35. Map 
 
 No. 3. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Eloise Johnson, 
 Gillespie, Illinois. 
 
 Private Johnson served en the 
 Mexican Border with the regi- 
 ment. On the Lorraine Front 
 he proved himself a good sol- 
 dier in all respects, always be- 
 ing ready when called upon. 
 At Champagne a shell struck 
 beside his tent, and although 
 he was not struck, the concus- 
 'sion was so great that it killed 
 him instantly. 
 
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 Killed July 15th at Champagne. 
 
 Buried July 16th, Grave No. 26, 
 
 Map No. 3. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Freder- 
 ick Hitchcock, Hamilton, Mich.'^ 
 
 Private Hitchcock became a 
 member of the 168th Infantry 
 while it was stationed at Neuf- 
 maison, France. He was killed 
 while asleep in his shelter tent. 
 Private Hitchcock was bright 
 and always eager to learn. 
 
 
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 Corporal Company L 
 Killed July 15, 1918 at Cham- 
 pagne. 
 
 Buried July 16th, Grave No. 48, 
 Map No. 3. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Red- 
 den, Sioux City, Iowa. 
 Corporal Redden was killed by 
 shell fire during the offensive 
 in Champagne, When killed 
 he was in the act of helping a 
 wounded comrade from the 
 field in the heaviest of artillery 
 fire, undaunted he worked to 
 the last. 
 
 Redden was corporal of an auto- 
 matic Rifle Squad. He was an 
 energetic man with a loyalty to 
 cause and friends and faithful- 
 ness to duty that few can equal. 
 
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 WM. G. 102520 
 
 Private Company L 
 
 Killed July 15th at Champagne 
 Front. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 53, Map 
 
 No. 3. 
 
 Relative's address : Miss Louisa 
 Schupp, care Bruce Green, 
 Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
 
 Private Schupp was killed by 
 shell fire while carrying a mes- 
 sage from company headquar- 
 ters to the battalion commander. 
 He was small of stature, but 
 was so dependable that no 
 emergency could find him want- 
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 Private Company L 
 
 Killed July 15, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 6, Map 
 No. 3. 
 
 Emergency address : Joe Sette, 
 New Haven, Conn. 
 
 In the severe bombardment of 
 the last German offensive in 
 Champagne, Private Bimbo 
 stood staunchly at his post in 
 an open trench. He was an 
 Italian but was as proud of the 
 American uniform as any native 
 
 SHORT, WILLIAM 101725 
 
 Private Company H 
 
 Killed at Champagne, north- 
 east of Suippes on July 15, 1918. 
 Buried in Grave No. 5, Map 
 No. 3. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert A. 
 Short, Kansas City, Missouri. ^. 
 
 During the heavy bombard- 
 ment at Sommes Suippes every- 
 body was either in dug-outs or 
 under cover of some kind. 
 Volunteers were called for to 
 carry rations to the line. Private 
 Short volunteered and was killed 
 by a high explosive shell, while 
 carrying out his duty. 
 
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 PLASTER, PHILLIP J. 101716 
 
 Private Company H 
 Killed July 15, 1918 at Cham- 
 pagne. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 20, Map 
 No. 3. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom 
 Plaster, Oskaloosa, Iowa. 
 Born September 22, 1900. 
 Enlisted while in his first year in 
 High School. Never shall I for- 
 get the feeling of emotion in the 
 company when they heard of 
 Phil's death. 
 
 Private Plaster was killed dur- 
 ing the bombardment at 
 Sommes Suippes, while making 
 ^his way to a dug-out. He was 
 y £^ the youngest boy in the regi- 
 — ' ment. 
 
 SHORT, JOHN A. 102192 
 
 Private Company K 
 
 Killed at Champagne near 
 Camp 3/5 July 15, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 2, Map 
 
 No. 3. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. MM 
 Short, Conway, Iowa. 
 
 Private Short was killed in- 
 stantly by a high explosive shell 
 while standing post in the 
 trenches. 
 
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 Private Company K 
 
 Killed at Champagne July 15th. 
 Buried July 16, 1918 in Grave 
 
 No. 27, Map No. 3. 
 
 Relative's address : Barton Lan- 
 don, Bedford, Iowa. 
 
 Private Peach was making his 
 eleventh trip to the aid station 
 with wounded when he was 
 struck by a high explosive shell 
 and killed instantly. 
 
 Private Peach was recommend- 
 ed for the Distinguished Service 
 Cross for these acts of bravery. 
 
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 Private First Class Company D 
 Killed at the Champagne Front, 
 July 15, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 57, Map 
 No, 3, 
 
 Up to the time the regiment ar- 
 rived on the Champagne Front, 
 Private Semik, with the scouts 
 was in advance. 
 
 He was killed in the perform- 
 ance of his duty. 
 
 In appearance and action and 
 as a soldier, men, above him in 
 rank, stated that the American 
 Army never produced a better 
 soldier. 
 
 Relative's address: Mikac Lit- 
 arz, Chicago Heights, Chicago, 
 Illinois. 
 
 
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 Private Company B 
 Killed July 15, 1918. 
 Buried in Grave No. 3, Map 
 No. 3. 
 
 Private Rodgers was killed by a 
 high explosive shell at the en- 
 trance to his dug-out at Camp 
 4/5. He had been joking v^rith 
 two friends, saying that the first 
 two shells were for them and the 
 third for him. The third shell 
 hit a limb above him, killing him 
 and did not touch the other two 
 men. 
 
 Private Rodgers rendered valu- 
 able service in previous action 
 as a platoon runner, and had a 
 reputation for fearlessness. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. George 
 Rodgers, Lacona, Iowa. 
 
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 Corporal Company C 
 
 Killed July 15, 1918 at Cham- 
 pagne Front near Camp 3 5. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 58, near 
 Camp 3/5 northeast of Suippes. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Peter- 
 son, Creston, Iowa. 
 
 Corporal Peterson was on out- 
 post duty when a high explosive 
 shell hit near him and he was 
 killed by the concussion, A 
 comrade went out to take his 
 mess to him and found him lying 
 dead with his head on his arm. 
 
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 Private Company A 
 
 Killed at Champagne Front July 
 15th. 
 
 Buried near Camp 3/5, Map 
 No. 3. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. John 
 Thomas, Yale, Kentucky. 
 
 Private Thomas joined Company 
 A July 12th and was killed by a 
 high explosive shell on July 
 15th, just three days later. 
 
 
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 Private Company A 
 
 Killed at Champagne Front on 
 July 15, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 59, Map 
 No. 3. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E.; 
 Leonard, Emmetsburg, Iowa. vv, 
 
 Private Leonard was killed by a 
 bursting shell at Champagne. 
 He had been selected for the 
 Intelligence Section in Lorraine 
 and was acting in that capacity 
 when killed. 
 
 LUDDINGTON, WALLACE W. 
 
 100029 
 Private Company A 
 
 Killed July 15th at Champagne 
 Front. 
 
 Buried at Camp 3 5, Map No. 3. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Lud- 
 dington, Lorimor, Iowa. 
 
 Private Luddington did splendid 
 work with the company in Lor- 
 raine. 
 
 He was acting as litter bearer 
 at Champagne and lost his life 
 bringing in the wounded. He 
 was fatally wounded and his 
 body was found the following 
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 Private Company A 
 
 Killed near Camp 3/5 at Cham- 
 pagne on July 15, 1918. 
 
 Buried, Grave No. 24, Map 
 3. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Matt Kar- 
 kella, Calumet, Mich. 
 
 Private Karkella was killed by a 
 high explosive shell w^hile acting 
 as a litter bearer on the Cham- 
 pagne Front. 
 
 He joined the company in April 
 and served in the trenches in 
 Lorraine, where he did very 
 vgood work. 
 
 WURST, FRED J. 99885 
 
 Corporal Company A 
 
 Killed at Champagne July 15th. 
 Buried, Grave No. 2, Map No. 3. 
 
 Corporal Wurst was hit by a 
 large shell fragment during the 
 intense bombardment at Cham- 
 pagne and died soon after. 
 
 Born August 24, 1894. 
 
 Son of Mrs. E. Wurst, Dubuque, 
 Iowa. 
 
 He took things as they came 
 during the training period in 
 France and in the trenches, 
 never shirking a dangerous mis- 
 sion, or grumbling over a dis- 
 agreeable duty. He was a man 
 respected and loved by all who 
 knew him. 
 
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 O'DELL, LOUIS E. 2311848 
 
 Private Company K 
 
 Killed at Champagne July 15, 
 1918. 
 
 Buried, Grave No. 49, Map No. 3. 
 
 Private O'Dell was killed by a 
 high explosive which hit him in 
 the shoulder. He was on post 
 duty during the bombardment. 
 
 Relative's address: H. P. Tim- 
 berly, Bedford, Iowa. 
 
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 KILLIAN, ALBERT S. 102158 
 
 Private Company K 
 
 Killed July 16th at Champagne. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 44 Map 
 No. 3. 
 
 Relative's address: Mrs. A. O. 
 Sprag, Sheridan, Wyo. 
 
 Private Killian was hit in the 
 face by a fragment of high ex- 
 plosive shell during the bom- 
 bardment and was killed almost 
 instantly. 
 
 He enlisted April 5, 1917. 
 
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 102118 
 
 Private Company K 
 
 Killed at Champagne Front July 
 15, 1918. 
 
 Buried Grave No. 43, Map No. 3. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph 
 Curry, Corning, Iowa. 
 
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 Private Curry was standing 
 guard in the trenches when a 
 high explosive shell struck close 
 to him and killed him instantly. 
 He had been with the regiment 
 in the Lorraine Sector. 
 
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 Private Company G 
 Killed July 15, 1918 at Camp 
 3/5, Champagne. 
 Company G had been allotted a 
 dug-out, which was insufficient 
 to shelter the entire company. 
 Part of the first platoon were 
 moved into a nearby trench. 
 The enemy concentrated a 
 heavy shell fire on this trench, 
 killing and wounding several ( 
 men. A shell burst near Private 
 Richardson and a fragment 
 pierced his body, killing him 
 instantly. 
 
 Private Richardson was quiet 
 and unassuming and a good 
 soldier. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Lulu Richardson, 
 San Francisco, California. 
 
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 Private Company G 
 
 Killed July 15, 1918 at Camp 3, 5. 
 Buried July 16th. 
 
 Private Rots was on duty in a 
 communicating trench when a 
 , high explosive shell exploded 
 and killed him instantly. 
 
 He was a good soldier and a 
 friend to all. 
 
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 Son of Mr. and Mrs. S. P. 
 Beatty, Washington, Iowa. 
 
 Private Beatty was assisting in 
 putting up some barbed wire 
 obstructions during the violent 
 bombardment that preceded the 
 enemy's offensive on July 15th. 
 
 He was killed by a fragment of 
 a high explosive shell which hit 
 him in the head, killing him in- 
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 Private Company D 
 
 Killed near Camp 3/5, July 15th. 
 Buried in Grave No. 14. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs, Graham, 
 Mystic, Iowa. 
 
 Private Graham was killed at his 
 rifle post in a position of sup- 
 port to the French troops. In 
 spite of the terrific shelling, he 
 and Private Wilcox did not 
 abandon their post and a direct 
 hit killed them both instantly. 
 
 Private Graham was of the qual- 
 ity the French General Gouraud 
 admired and praised for that 
 morning's work. The respon- 
 sibilities of an automatic rifle- 
 lan were in no better hands 
 /than his. 
 
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 WILCOX, ERNEST R. 100801 
 
 Private Company D 
 
 Killed July 15, 1918 near Camp 
 
 No. 3/5. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 14, Map 
 No, 3. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. James 
 Wilcox, Unionville, Iowa. 
 
 Private Wilcox was killed by a ( 
 high explosive shell while on 
 duty at his auto-rifle post. 
 
 Through all the trench service 
 in Lorraine he was an Automatic 
 Rifle Gunner. 
 
 His death caused a vacancy that 
 was hard to fill. 
 
 
 
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 . Private First Class Company E 
 Killed at Camp 3/5 July 15th. 
 Buried in Grave No. 21, Map 
 No. 3. 
 
 Son of Ella Head, Greenfield, 
 Iowa. 
 
 Lloyd with his two brothers was 
 a member of the second platoon. 
 Because he was the eldest and 
 the largest of the three, he 
 had gained the nickname of 
 "Mother". A shell struck near 
 to where one of his brothers was 
 standing and Lloyd jumped out 
 of his trench to see if his 
 brother was all right when he 
 was struck by a shell and killed 
 instantly. 
 
 His loss was keenly felt by the 
 company. 
 
 WEATHERILL, GEORGE T. 
 
 100921 
 Corporal Company E 
 
 Killed at Camp 3 5 northeast of 
 Suippes, July 15, 1918. 
 
 Buried Grave No. 10, Map No. 3. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. 
 Weatherill, Fayette, Missouri. 
 
 George was a splendid example 
 of physical manhood, respected 
 , and liked by all the men in the 
 company. 
 
 Corporal Weatherill had served 
 throughout the Lorraine Cam- 
 paign and was counted as one 
 of the best non-commissioned 
 At' y/ I pfficers in the company. 
 
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 Private Company E 
 
 Killed July 15th at Camp 3/5 
 northeast of Suippes. 
 
 Buried, Grave No. 
 No. 3. 
 
 Grandson of Mrs. Barbara Koe- 
 brick, Charles City, Iowa. 
 
 Private Koebrick enlisted at 
 Charles City v^^ith the First Iowa 
 Infantry and was transferred to 
 the 168th Infantry. He served 
 throughout the Lorraine Cam- 
 paign and was known as a good 
 soldier. 
 
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 Private Company I 
 
 Died July 17, 1918. 
 
 Private Dailey was wounded on 
 July 14th by shrapnel. 
 
 Born in Burlington, Iowa, Sep- 
 tember 23, 1891. 
 
 Son of Mrs. A. K. Dailey, Bur- 
 lington, Iowa, 
 
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 Private Company H 
 
 Private Noel was wounded on 
 July 15, 1918, and died on July 
 16th. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Ella S. Noel, Sun- 
 ' bury Apts., Los Angles, Calif. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 42 at Camp 
 3 5 near Suippes. 
 
 Private Noel was a daring soldier 
 and bravely played his part to the 
 last. 
 
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 Private Company E 
 
 Killed at Camp 3 5 July 15th. 
 Buried in Grave No. 9, Map 
 
 No. 3. 
 
 Son of Mrs. G. Krumrey, 
 
 Charles City, Iowa. 
 
 Private Krumrey was trans- 
 ferred to Company E from the 
 First Iowa Infantry. He had 
 served throughout the Lorraine 
 Campaign and was known as a 
 fine soldier and a clean, manly 
 fellow. 
 
 Born in Floyd County, October 
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 100826 
 Private Company E 
 Killed northeast of Suippes 
 July 15th. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 19, Map 
 No. 3. 
 
 Private Shannon was known as 
 "Dad Shannon". He enlisted in 
 Charles City at the age of forty- 
 seven years. He was known by 
 every man in the company for 
 his kindness and good counsel. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Ami 
 Shannon, Charles City, Iowa. 
 
 His example was an inspiration 
 \ to the men of this organization, 
 /' who will long remember him as 
 
 ^ good soldier, worthy counselor 
 /^nd gentleman. 
 
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 Private Company E 
 
 Killed July 15th at Camp 3/5 
 northeast of Suippes. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 
 
 No. 3. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Ella Scott, Shen^ 
 andoah, Iowa. 
 
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 throughout the Lorraine Cam- 
 paign and was known as a fine 
 soldier, always willing to do his 
 part. 
 
 He enlisted in Company E 
 March, 1917. 
 
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 Private First Class Company E 
 
 Killed July 15, 1918 at Camp 
 
 3/5. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 11, Map 
 
 No. 3. 
 
 Relative's address: Mrs. Jennie 
 Moreford, Shenandoah, Iowa. 
 
 Private Nolan was one of the 
 original Company E boys. He 
 was a clean, manly soldier of the 
 highest type. 
 
 HARRINGTON, JOHN T. 
 
 Private Company E 
 
 Killed at Camp 3 5 July 15, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 12, Map 
 No. 3. 
 
 The platoon, of which Private 
 Harrington was a member, had 
 just reached their position in the 
 trench, when a shell lit directly 
 in the trench and killed ten men 
 one of whom was Harrington. 
 
 ; Private Harrington was well 
 thought of by all the men and 
 officers of his company. He was 
 known as a good soldier and 
 willing to do his part. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Har- 
 
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 1302719 
 
 Private Company E 
 
 Killed July 15th northeast of 
 Suippes. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 16, Map 
 No. 3. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. William 
 Rickermann, Detroit, Michigan. 
 Killed by a high explosive shell. 
 
 Private Rickermann had served 
 with the company in the Lor- 
 raine Campaign and was known 
 as a good soldier and always 
 willing to do his part. 
 
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 Corporal Company F 
 
 Killed at Champagne Front on 
 July 15, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 1, Map 
 No. 3. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. 
 Dunn, Charleston, Illinois. 
 
 Corporal Dunn came to us from 
 the 163d Infantry and soon 
 showed himself to be an excep- 
 tional soldier both in the lines 
 as well as when out of the line. 
 
 He was admired and respected 
 by all. He had been handling 
 his squad well during the heavy 
 shell fire and they had almost 
 reached their positions when a 
 shell killed him and three others. 
 
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 101166 
 
 Private First Class Company F 
 
 Killed near Camp 3 5 July 15, 
 1918. 
 
 Buried near Suippes, Grave No. 
 2, Map No. 3. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. 
 Thuman, Nodaway, Iowa. 
 
 Private Thuman had gone 
 through the bombardment on 
 the night of the 14th and was 
 in the trenches with them the 
 15th. He was killed instantly 
 by shell fire when the platoon 
 had almost reached their posi- 
 tions. 
 
 Private Thuman was a sterling 
 soldier with high ideals. 
 
 COOK, CARL J. 
 
 84334 
 
 Private Company F 
 
 Killed at Champagne Front July 
 15th. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 13. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs, Harvey J, 
 Cook, Gillette, Wyoming. 
 
 Private Cook was killed instantly 
 as the company was going into 
 the trenches. He had been 
 serving as a stretcher bearer and\V 
 was at the end of the line. He 
 had carried wounded all night 
 long during the bombardment of 
 July 14th, never faltering 
 through all the shell fire. Private 
 Cook showed great courage and 
 faithfulness at this work and was 
 a willing and hard working 
 soldier. 
 
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FULLER, LEONARD C. 101215 
 
 Private Company F 
 
 Killed July 15th near Camp 3 5. 
 Buried at Camp 3/5, Grave 
 
 No. 3. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Fuller, Shell Rock, Iowa. 
 
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 Private Fuller had gone through 
 the German bombardment of the 
 14th and 15th and had almost 
 reached the platoon position 
 when he was killed instantly by 
 shell fire. He was a young boy 
 but he faced the German shells 
 without fear. After he had been 
 wounded he addressed one of his 
 comrades as he passed by with 
 these words, "This is some bom- 
 bardment, isn't it?" 
 Born March 25, 1898. 
 
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 Private Company F 
 
 Killed at Champagne Front July 
 15th. 
 
 Buried at Camp 3/5, Grave No. 
 4, Map No. 4. 
 
 Relative's address: Mrs. Lee W. 
 Round, Farragut, Iowa. 
 
 Private Smith was killed instant- 
 ly by a shell when the platoon V 
 had almost reached its position. 
 On their way to the trench he 
 was very anxious to get a chance 
 to meet the Germans hand to 
 hand. 
 
 Private Smith was a very de- 
 pendable soldier and always 
 carried out any orders in an 
 admirable manner. 
 
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 Private Company F 
 
 Killed at Champagne Front July 
 15th. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 13, Map 
 No. 3. 
 
 Sister: Miss Emily Wenlock, 
 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
 
 During the bombardment Private 
 Wenlock had helped carry 
 wounded all night of the 14th 
 and the next day also. He was 
 marching at the end of the 
 company as they were going to 
 the trenches and a German high 
 explosive killed him instantly. 
 
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 LEWIN, WALTER J. 302603 
 
 Private Company H 
 
 Killed July 16th, northeast of 
 Suippes. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 40, Map 
 No. 3. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Jennie Lewis, 
 Calien, Michigan. 
 
 During the heavy bombardment 
 of July 15th at Sommes-Suippes, 
 Champagne, it was necessary for 
 part of the company to take up 
 other positions. They had to run 
 through heavy shell fire and 
 Private Lewin was killed in the 
 attempt to gain another position. 
 
 
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FULGHUM, MILTON D. 102058 
 Private Company K 
 Died July 16th. 
 Buried at Bussy Le Chateau. 
 
 Private Fulghum was making 
 his eleventh trip through the 
 bombardment to the dressing 
 station when a high explosive 
 shell struck near him and almost 
 blew both legs off ; he died on 
 the way to the hospital. 
 
 He was one of the first to 
 volunteer, for hazardous work. 
 
 Private Fulghum was admired 
 and liked by all. 
 
 Relative's address: Mrs. Geo. L. 
 Burmeister, Mason City, Iowa. 
 
 He was recommended for the 
 D. S. C. by his Captain. 
 
 
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 RASMUSSON, ALEX C. 99312 
 
 Private Company D 
 Died July 16, 1918. 
 Buried at Champagne near 
 Camp 3/5. 
 
 Private Rasmusson was wound- 
 ed by a shell at Camp 3/5 and, 
 was started back to the hospitals 
 in an ambulance. He was so 
 weak, however, that he died be- 
 fore they reached the hospital. 
 
 Relative's address: Geo. W. 
 Nalcord, Clear Lake, Iowa. 
 
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DAVIS, DAVID W. 
 
 Corporal Company G 
 
 Killed July 18, 1918. 
 
 Corporal Davis, with several 
 others, was in a communicating 
 trench when the enemy concen- 
 trated a heavy shell fire at that 
 point. The fragments of a shell 
 entered the leg of Corporal Davis 
 and he was taken to the hospital 
 at Chalons, where he died later. 
 
 Corporal Davis was known for 
 his well balanced temperament 
 and his reputation in the com- 
 pany was such as to be envied. 
 
 Relative's address : Hedrick, la. 
 
 
 WRIGHT, ARNOLD L. 
 
 Private Company G 
 
 Died July 17th at hospital near 
 Chalons. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar F. 
 Wright, Ft. Dodge, Iowa. 
 
 Private Wright was carrying a 
 French officer to the first aid 
 station when a shell exploded 
 and a fragment pierced his 
 abdomen. He was taken to the 
 hospital but died a short time 
 later. Private Wright was cited 
 for bravery. 
 
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 liked by all the men. 
 
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 Corporal Company E 
 Died July 18th at Evacuation 
 Hospital No. 4. 
 
 Severely wounded at Camp 3/5 
 northeast of Suippes. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Mc- 
 Glothlen, Sheldon, Iowa. 
 Corporal McGlothlen enlisted 
 with the Second Iowa Infantry 
 and was transferred to Company 
 E in August, 1917. He soon 
 became known as the highest 
 type of a soldier and deserving 
 of promotion. He was promoted 
 to Corporal in January and 
 served throughout the Lor- 
 raine Campaign with credit to 
 himself and to his company. 
 Studious minded, but with a 
 ;^ rare sense of humor, he was a 
 Viii'/'sr^i friend to every man. 
 
 PURCELL, LESTER D. 101201 
 
 Corporal Company E 
 Died July 18th. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Pur- 
 cell, Red Oak, Iowa. 
 Corporal Purcell was severely 
 wounded at Camp 3/5, northeast 
 of Suippes. Died at Evacuation 
 Hospital No. 4. ; 
 
 Corporal Purcell was one of the 
 most popular non-commissioned 
 officers in the company, which 
 place he filled with exceptional 
 abihty. He had the highest 
 ideals and was fair minded at all 
 times. 
 
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 Died at Evacuation Hospital No. 
 
 4, July 15th. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Minnie Scott, Alexis, 
 Illinois. 
 
 Private Scott was severely 
 wounded at Camp 3/5, northeast 
 of Suippes. 
 
 He had served with the organiza- 
 tion in the Lorraine Sector. At 
 the time he was wounded, he was 
 Second Battalion Runner, taking 
 a message to one of the Com- 
 panies from Battalion Headquar- 
 ters. 
 
 Private Scott was of the highest 
 type of a soldier. 
 
 Born at Alexis, Illinois, July 4. 
 1889. 
 
 STOKKA, ANDREAS 
 
 84431 
 
 Private Company K 
 
 Died July 18, 1918, at Evacuation 
 Hospital No. 4. 
 
 Private Stokka was severely 
 wounded at Camp 3/5, northeast 
 of Suippes. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Nil Stokka, 
 Stanvanger, Norway. 
 
 He was always willing to do more 
 than his share, and performed 
 his duties with thoroughness. 
 
 The deeds of Private Stokka 
 were an inspiration to all the 
 men. 
 
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 Private Company E 
 
 Died July 18, 1918, at Evacuation 
 
 Hospital No. 4, 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Clifton 
 Ackles, Red Oak, Iowa. 
 
 Private Ackles was severely 
 wounded at Camp 3/5 on July 
 15th. 
 
 He served throughout the Lor- 
 raine Campaign with credit to 
 himself and to his organization. 
 
 DAVIS, RALPH W. 102356 
 
 Private Company L 
 Died July 21, 1918, at Camp Hos- 
 
 pital No. 13. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Elizabeth 
 Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
 
 Davis, 
 
 Private Davis was severely 
 wounded at the beginning of the 
 bombardment of Champagne, 
 while he was standing post in the 
 trenches. 
 
 Private Davis was an excellent 
 soldier, reliable at all times, and 
 proved himself such even to his 
 death. 
 
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 EWIN, ALBERT V. 99232 
 
 ^ Corporal Headquarters Co. 
 
 \ Died July 22, 1918, at Base Hos- 
 
 pital No. 15, at Chaumont, 
 France. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Matthew 
 Ewin, Seney, Iowa. 
 
 While serving with the pioneer 
 platoon of the Headquarters 
 Company as a burying party in 
 the Champagne Defensive, Cor- 
 poral Ewin contracted pneu- 
 monia. His lungs were weak, due 
 to two previous attacks, and he 
 was not able to overcome the 
 disease. 
 
 #v , Corporal Ewin was a splendid 
 ///f // soldier, always willing to do more 
 than his share, fair in everything 
 and liked by his whole platoon. 
 
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 Private Company K 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Glines, 
 Hamilton, Illinois, 
 
 Private Glines was wounded by 
 high explosive in the bombard- 
 ment preceding the enemy at- 
 tack on July 15, 1918. He died 
 later in the hospital. 
 
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 ZENDZIAN, JOSEPH 82799 
 
 Private Company K 
 
 Died at the hospital in Chalons- 
 sur-Marne. 
 
 Private Zendzian was walking 
 post in the trenches during the 
 bombardment and was fatally 
 wounded by a high explosive 
 shell. He was taken to the hos- 
 pital, where he died a few days 
 later. 
 
 Emergency address : West Pater- 
 son, New Jersey. 
 Private Zendzian served with the 
 regiment in Lorraine. 
 
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 STAFFORD, ERNEST 
 
 Wagoner Supply Company 
 
 Killed July 15th, 1918. 
 
 Wagoner Stafford was killed 
 during the heavy bombardment 
 of July 14 to 18, during the 
 Champagne offensive. 
 
 Wagoner Stafford had served 
 with the regiment with the sup- 
 ply company since its organiza- 
 tion. He was a faithful and 
 trustworthy soldier at all times, 
 never failing when called upon to 
 do his duty. 
 
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 Relative's address, Mrs. Eva Tip- 
 ton, Neola, Iowa. 
 
 Private Kidder was born at Elmo, 
 Missouri, October 1, 1895. He 
 went overseas with the 168th In- 
 fantry, did his duty well in the 
 Lorraine battle and while we were 
 in the great Champaigne defense 
 he was seriously wounded while 
 sleeping in the pup tents. The 
 boys were called to the trenches 
 and when they reported Charley 
 was missing. They found him 
 wounded and sent him to the hos- 
 pital at Chalons, where he died 
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ON THE night of July 18, at 9 o'clock we were relieved from our duties 
 in Champagne at the same time the orders came for us to proceed at 
 once to the scene of the new battle that was then commencing be- 
 tween Soissons and Chateau Thierry. Morning found us in "Camp Attila" 
 and the next night we marched beyond Chalons-sur-Marne where we 
 were loaded upon trains and hurried away toward the scene of conflict. 
 Captain William J. Tucker has told the story of Chateau Thierry in a short 
 article better than I can tell it myself so I quote here his article. 
 
 "The French Chasseurs were jubilant. The wireless had caught the 
 glad tidings of the defeat of the enemy across the Marne. They brought 
 this news to their American comrades in the Champagne country, after 
 those terrible and glorious days of onslaught before Suippes, where the 
 168th Infantry had stood as a portion of the barrier on the Catalonic 
 plains before Chalons, where Ateius had saved the civilized world from 
 the tyranny of the early Huns under Attila, these men had fought. And 
 the news came that their victory was further glorified in that this, the last 
 German offensive, had changed hands. Even in those first moments in a 
 delirium of joy, when the confirmation came of the deliverance of Chateau 
 Thierry and of the Huns fighting to keep back the swift onrush of the 
 Americans and French, there was the realization that the turning point of 
 the war was then being enacted. 
 
 With the consequent relief of pressure from immediately in front of 
 the Champagne sector, the 168th Infantry was relieved of its duty in the 
 magnificent Gouraud army. Marches and train journeys carried the Iowa 
 Regiment to Jaena and its neighboring villages/ 
 
 "There had been only a few hours of rest after the long train trip 
 and the overland march before the word came that we were to take part 
 in the drive north of Chateau Thierry. With a swiftness and dispatch 
 potent with its ominous importance the regiment was embarked upon cam- 
 ions and after a ride through the long hours of the night, arrived the 
 morning of July 25 in the Bois de Fere near Epieds. It was almost liter- 
 ally true that there our men were discharged from the motor truck into 
 the throes of one of the most severe battles of modern history. 
 
 "For the first soggy, drizzly day, through those torn woods and tedious 
 trails, the men and officers were occupied in taking over the line from the 
 well-exhausted Twenty-sixth division, which had won such splendid hon- 
 ors. The men were hungry, but went about the task cheerfully. Food, 
 they realized, was almost out of the question. 
 
 "July 26, shortly after noon, the attack 
 was resumed. After a short advance the First 
 and Second Battalions were engaged. The 
 Third Battalion was in support. The enemy 
 was driven forward, though not without the 
 ground being contested. At the edge of the 
 Bois de Fere, and on the field before the Croix 
 Rouge Farm, what the world has learned of as 
 
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one of the bloodiest fights of the war, was staged. Through the after- 
 noon and night Lieutenant Colonel Stanley's Second Battalion men strug- 
 gled, maneuvering, and rushing their way to the farm road. The enemy, 
 with a splendid field of fire, used his machine gun with wicked precision. 
 Our artillery was inadequate. But before the rushing Americans he gave 
 way. When morning came the objective was held, 
 
 "The next day the Third Battalion took the lead, and forced the way 
 seven kilometers to the Ourcq river. At the La Faviers Farm this bat- 
 talion bivouacked for the night. The First Battalion effected the advance 
 on the right. The Second Battalion was in support. 
 
 "With the first grey hint of dawn Major Guy S. Brewer led his men 
 to the Ourcq, forced the crossing, and in the cover of the morning mist, 
 which then lay heavy in the valley at the base of the hill, began the fight. 
 Before noon the crest of Hill 212 was obtained and held, and the positions 
 dominating Sergy and Cierges occupied. 
 
 "The real worth of infantrymen was never better exemplified than in 
 the furious assault which carried these men forward on the machine-gun 
 swept slope of this hill, and the dispute for its mastery which followed 
 for several days after the Americans had gained it. In protecting the left 
 flank of the Third Battalion, units of the Second Battalion did wonderful 
 and efficient work. 
 
 "July 30th the First Battalion, commanded by Major Emory Worthing- 
 ton, assisted by a battalion from the 47th Infantry, with Major Brewer in 
 command of the two battalions, fought through Sergy and held the heights 
 toward Nestles. In these bitter contests men so well did the bidding of 
 their commanders that heroism came to be a common virtue. For their 
 country, their comrades and the glorious struggle for which they fought, 
 men volunteered for tasks when forewarned that death was almost certain. 
 
 "The struggle for Hill 212 continued until the 31st day of July. Relief 
 came for this particular part of the line. And, then, with the Second Bat- 
 talion in the lead, the drive was taken up from the heights beyond Sergy 
 to the Hills and forests north of Nestles, and the route was well cleared 
 for the subsequent advance to the Vesle and Fismes. Finally, these tired 
 and worn troops, whose ranks had been so well thinned; who had sub- 
 sisted on polluted water and iron rations and no rations at all, and had 
 beaten back the proudest troops of the German emperor, were returned 
 to the rear, for a brief respite. 
 
 "This is the story of Chateau Thierry as this regiment saw it. And 
 well it has been called "the bloody drive to the Vesle." 
 
 "It was following these days of trial and struggle, during which the 
 American soldier had shown to the Old World how he could fight, and how 
 he could bear privations, that General Petain, in this memorable order to 
 his army, said : 
 
 " 'I told. you yesterday: 
 
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" 'PERSEVERANCE, PATIENCE, THE COMRADES ARE AR- 
 RIVING, 
 
 " T tell you today : 
 
 " 'TENACITY, AUDACITY, AND YOU WILL FORCE THE VIC- 
 TORY.' 
 
 "The French general, FayoUe, said: 'We owe these results to the en- 
 ergy and skill of the chiefs, and to the extraordinary valor of the troops, 
 who, for more than fifteen days, had to march and fight without rest.' 
 
 "It is for this, and for the knowledge of the sacrifice and suffering 
 involved, of the stubbornness of the treacherous foe against whom strength 
 was tried, that man speaks with firmness and pride when he says: 'Sir, I 
 was in the Chateau Thierry Drive.' 
 
 "If you knew in truth how well these men fought; of how men 
 wounded accomplished the miraculous and bore their suffering with 
 dauntless fortitude, and then, how the fine young American manhood be- 
 cause of the willingness of the individuals saw sacrifices made, and bore 
 them with courageous and undeterred valor, you well could believe that 
 the flag we adore is a brighter flag; that the country we love, because of 
 these and their sacrifices is a better country. 
 
 "The living who have not suffered physical hurt, and the living, 
 though they be maimed, will hold forever the memory of Chateau Thierry 
 as a precious heritage to go down the halls of time through their progeny. 
 
 "For those brave souls whose bodies lie, marked by humble wooden 
 crosses, which mutely tell of the difficult drive from Epieds beyond 
 Nestles, fame is as certain as morning light. The regiment whose name 
 they helped make illustrious will ever guard the traditions they have given 
 it, and hold them forth as chivalrous examples of American patriotism. 
 
 "Born unto lives of peacefulness, nurtured at the bosom of love, led 
 into the paths of righteousness with honor a bright guiding star, proud in 
 their physical strength, they rallied to their nation's call. They went into 
 the valley of death, with the avowal to never return until victory is bought 
 at the price of blood. And with vision ing eyes they saw afar, and with 
 new meaning, to where Calvary with its altar of sacrifices lifts its cross 
 against the eternal skies. 
 
 "There never were men more brave than these. Life had not paled 
 for them. Still glad and eager, still unsatisfied, for more and more of life, 
 they died, 
 
 "As guardians of liberty they came to a new shore ; to a far-off land, 
 to a strange tongue and a strange people and took up arms with them in 
 the defense of common ideals. They loved their regiment because it was 
 'their' regiment, the preservation of those ideals. And what a part they 
 had in magnificent achievement; Bois de Fere; Hill 212; Sergy; Nestles, 
 
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around which their graves are made, and will go to illustrate some of the 
 best pages ever written into American history." 
 
 Captain Tucker's description of the battle and his appreciation of the 
 men, who gave their lives there, was shared alike by every other officer 
 of the regiment. It is the common opinion among the men of our regi- 
 ment that this was the most severe battle the regiment ever engaged in. 
 
 More men were lost two to one than in any other battle in which we took 
 part. Fourteen hundred and eighty-two men in my regiment were either 
 killed or wounded in the seven days of fighting. Two hundred and 
 twenty-seven Iowa boys sleep around Croix Rouge farm along the Ourcq 
 and along the sides of Hill 212, Bravely they responded to the order of 
 their general and the foe, though well trained and abundantly supplied 
 with every article of warfare, could not withstand the mighty onrush of 
 the sons of Washington and Lincoln, fighting to protect the rights and lib- 
 erty of humanity. 
 
 We left our dead sleeping so peacefully 
 there and when we turned our faces back 
 from the field, the sunshine was just break- 
 ing through the clouds and a beautiful rain- 
 bow made a full span in the sky, one end of 
 it resting upon the open fields by the Croix 
 Rouge Farm where many of our dead lie 
 among the growing flowers. 
 
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 HARRIS, CHARLES B. 100895 
 
 Private First Class Company E 
 
 Drowned July 24, 1918 in the 
 Marne River at St. Jean, France. 
 
 Buried at the town of Changis 
 across the river from St. Jean. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Har- 
 ris, Coin, Iowa. 
 
 Charles was an original Com- 
 pany E boy and had served 
 throughout the Lorraine Cam- 
 paign and the Battle of Cham- 
 pagne. He was known as a 
 good soldier and respected by 
 all the men for his high qualities 
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 CHRISTENSEN, HENRY W. 
 
 99969 
 
 Private Company A 
 
 Killed July 25, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 16-B, Map of 
 Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Relative's address, Peter Jacob- 
 son, Kensett, Iowa. 
 
 Born in Denmark, August 29, 
 1896. 
 
 Private Christensen gave his life 
 while attempting to capture an 
 enemy machine gun nest. He 
 was within a very few yards of it 
 when a shell fragment hit him 
 and he died almost instantly. 
 
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 RISON, GUY 1555398 
 
 Private Company A 
 Killed July 25, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 17, Map of 
 Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. Frank 
 earner, Versailles, Conn. 
 In the big offensive at Chateau 
 Thierry, while advancing 
 
 through a wood, the platoon of 
 which Private Rison was a mem- 
 ber, was held up by heavy ma- 
 chine gun fire, yet he never hesi- 
 tated. He charged forward 
 through the deadly fire and was 
 hit by machine gun bullets. His 
 work during the Champagne 
 Battle will never be forgotten. 
 His numerous deeds of heroism 
 /and courage were a shining ex- 
 /^ ample to aU. 
 
 GONZALES, LUIS G. 100122 
 
 Sergeant Company B 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 Le Charnel, July 26, 1918. 
 Son of Mrs. Natalia Gonzales, 
 Arroya, Porto Rico. 
 
 Sergeant Gonzales was killed by 
 a machine gun bullet while lead- 
 ing his platoon in the advance 
 near Le Charnel. He was a/ 
 member of the party that went \ 
 out on a daylight patrol and '|^ 
 locked a German pillbox and 
 threw away the key. Advancing 
 to the German second line, he 
 brought the information back 
 that they were going to attack. 
 Sergeant Gonzales was known 
 for his courage, daring and lead- 
 ership. 
 
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 101031 
 
 Private Company E 
 
 Killed July 26, 1918 at Foret de 
 Fere near Chateau Thierry. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 5-B, Map 
 of Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. S. Van De 
 Mark, Everly, Iowa. 
 
 During the Lorraine Campaign 
 he was slightly wounded, but re- 
 turned to the company and 
 served throughout the remain- 
 der of the campaign and also 
 through the Battle of Cham- 
 pagne. 
 
 HOLLISTER, LORIN 99398 
 
 Private Headquarters Company 
 
 Killed July 26, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 3-A, Map of 
 Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Hollis- 
 ter, Mapleton, Iowa. 
 
 Private Hollister was killed 
 while taking a telephone to the 
 advanced battalion. A shell 
 burst in the midst of the men of 
 the telephone platoon of the 
 Headquarters Company, killing 
 Private Hollister almost instantly. 
 
 He was a fearless soldier, good 
 companion and ready to do all 
 he could do for the cause for 
 which he was fighting. 
 
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 THOMPSON, HENRY 99536 
 
 Private Company E 
 
 Killed July 26, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 8-A, Map 
 of Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. John 
 Thompson, Greenfield, Iowa. 
 
 Private Thompson served with 
 the company in the Lorraine 
 Sector and the Battle of Cham- 
 pagne. 
 
 He enlisted in Company C, First 
 Iowa Infantry and was trans- 
 ferred to the Supply Co. and 
 from there to Company E, 168th 
 Infantry. 
 
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 101042 
 
 Private Company E 
 
 Killed in Foret de Fere near 
 
 Chateau Thierry July 26, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 6-B, Map 
 of Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. George 
 Toepfer, Charles City, Iowa. 
 
 Private Toepfer served through- 
 out the Lorraine Campaign and 
 the Battle of Champagne. 
 
 Private Toepfer was transferred 
 from the First Iowa Infantry. 
 
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 Corporal Company E 
 Killed July 26, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 8-B, Map 
 of Conde-en-brie. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs, Edward E. 
 Reed, Lingle, Wyoming. 
 
 Corporal Reed was assigned to 
 Company E in April, 1918. He 
 was promoted to corporalcy in 
 July, 1918, and led his squad 
 until he was killed by an enemy 
 machine gun bullet. 
 Corporal Reed was known as 
 a fine soldier and a willing 
 worker, as well as a good com- 
 rade. 
 
 Born in Springfield, Missouri, 
 September 2, 1893. 
 
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 Private First Class Company E 
 
 Killed at Foret de Fere near 
 Chateau Thierry July 26, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 6-1, Map of 
 Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. James W. 
 Taylor, Amazonia, Missouri. 
 
 Private Taylor was an original 
 Company E man. He served 
 throughout the Lorraine Cam- 
 paign and the Battle of Cham- 
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 Private Company E 
 
 Killed July 26, 1918 at Foret de 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 6-J, Map of 
 Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Relative's address, Otto Scho- 
 field, White Cloud, Kansas. 
 
 Private Parker was an original 
 Company E man and served 
 throughout the Lorraine Cam- 
 paign and the Battle of Cham- 
 pagne. 
 
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 Private Company E 
 
 Killed July 26, 1918 near Cha- 
 teau Thierry. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 9-A, Map 
 of Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Relative's address, Mr. Homer 
 McDougal, Orlando, Florida. 
 
 Private Brown had been with the 
 company but three days and was 
 killed in his first battle. 
 
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 Corporal Company E 
 
 KiUed July 26, 1918 near Cha- 
 teau Thierry. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 6-H. 
 Son of Mrs. Sarah Moe, De- 
 corah, Iowa. 
 
 Corporal Moe was killed by a 
 machine gun bullet. 
 
 He was transferred from the 
 First Iowa Infantry to the 168th 
 Infantry. He soon became 
 known as a hard worker and an 
 efficient non-commissioned of- 
 ficer. He had served with the 
 company throughout the Lor- 
 raine Campaign and the Battle 
 of Champagne. 
 
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 1343521 
 
 Private Company E 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. 
 Quinn, Ivy Station, Georgia. 
 
 Killed in Foret de Fere near , 
 Chateau Thierry, July 26, 1918. i ' 
 Buried in Grave No. 6-G. 4\ 
 
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 company but three days before 
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 Private First Class Company B 
 
 Killed July 26, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 7-A 
 
 Son of Mrs. Mary Whalen, Des 
 Moines, Iowa. 
 
 Private Whalen enlisted in the 
 First Iowa Infantry and was 
 transferred to Company E, 168th 
 Infantry in August, 1917. He 
 served throughout the Lorraine 
 Campaign and the Battle of 
 Champagne. He was a good 
 soldier and well liked by all his 
 comrades. 
 
 
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 Private Company E 
 
 Killed July 26, 1918 at Foret de 
 Fere, Chateau Thierry. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 8-C. 
 
 Relative's address, Arthur B. 
 Beers, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 
 
 Private Beers enlisted in the\ 
 First Iowa Infantry and was 
 transferred to 168th Infantry in 
 August, 1917. He served 
 throughout the Lorraine Cam- 
 paign and was a willing worker 
 in the interest of his organiza- 
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 NORRIS JOSEPH R. 101011 
 
 Private Company E 
 
 Killed July 26, 1918 at Foret de 
 Fere and Chateau Thierry. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 7-B, Map 
 of Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas 
 Norris, Erie, Kansas. 
 
 Private Norris enlisted in Com- 
 pany E at Shenandoah and 
 served throughout the Lorraine 
 Campaign and the Battle of 
 Champagne, gaining great credit 
 as a soldier and as a loyal and 
 worthy comrade. 
 
 Born December 12, 1895 at Erie, 
 Kansas. 
 
 McBRIDE, NATHANIEL M. 
 
 101003 
 
 Private Company E 
 
 Killed in Foret de Fere near 
 Chateau Thierry July 26, 1918. 
 Buried near Chateau Thierry. 
 
 Relative's address: Mrs. U. E. 
 McBride, Abbott, Colorado. 
 
 Private McBride served 
 
 throughout the Lorraine Cam- 
 paign and the Battle of Cham- 
 pagne. 
 
 McBride was transferred to the 
 168th Infantry from the Second 
 Iowa Infantry. 
 
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 KOOISTRA, JAMES 302579 
 
 Private Company E 
 
 Killed at Forct de Fere near 
 Chateau Thierry July 26, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 6-D, Map 
 of Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Josephine Adams, 
 Marshall, Mich. 
 
 Private Kooistra joined the regi- 
 ment in Lorraine in April and 
 served throughout the remain- 
 der of the campaign, and also in 
 the Battle of Champagne. He 
 was a hard worker and a good 
 soldier. 
 
 Born in Grand Rapids, Mich., 
 September 17, 1899, where he re- 
 ceived his education. 
 
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 Buried in Grave No. 9-B, Map 
 
 of Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. A. D. 
 Danielson, Decorah, Iowa. 
 
 Private Holm was one of the 
 best soldiers in the company, 
 and on numerous occasions he 
 had demonstrated his work as 
 an automatic gunner. He had 
 served throughout the Lorraine 
 Campaign and the Battle of 
 Champagne. 
 
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 Private Company E 
 Killed in Foret de Fere near 
 Chateau Thierry July 26, 1918. 
 Buried in Grave No. 37, Map of 
 Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Ida Beick, Fhnt, 
 Michigan. 
 
 Private Beick was killed by a 
 shell which exploded near the fox 
 hole of a comrade and himself. 
 Private Beick died while on the 
 stretcher on the trip to a hospi- 
 tal. 
 
 Private Beick had served 
 through part of the Lorraine 
 Campaign and the Battle of 
 Champagne. 
 
 Born in 1891 in Flint, Michigan. 
 
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 Private First Class Company E 
 
 Killed July 26, 1918 in Foret de 
 Fere near Chateau Thierry, 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 6-E, Map of 
 
 Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Hamre, Decorah, Iowa. 
 
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 Private Hamre served through- 
 out the Lorraine Campaign and 
 the Battle of Champagne. He 
 proved himself a good soldier 
 and worthy of any trust. 
 
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 Private First Class Company D 
 Died July 26, 1918 at Field Hos- 
 pital No. 103. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Webb, 
 Centerville, Iowa. 
 Private Webb, with his com- 
 pany, had started forward in the 
 first advance of the company at 
 Chateau Thierry when three 
 high explosive shells hit directly 
 in the column. Webb's right 
 leg was badly torn and he was 
 taken to the hospital where he 
 died that night. As he was be- 
 ing taken back to the dressing 
 station on the stretcher, he 
 called goodbye to his comrades 
 and was very cheerful and brave. 
 Jorn in Centerville, December 
 ,23, 1897. 
 
 BLEVINS, BASIL B. 100695 
 
 Private Company D 
 
 Killed July 26, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry near Sergy. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 14-G, Map 
 of Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Blev- 
 ins, Humeston, Iowa. 
 
 Private Blevins was instantly 
 killed by machine gun fire while 
 firing an automatic rifle at Cha- 
 teau Thierry near the "Red 
 Cross" farm. 
 
 He had made a good record with 
 the regiment in the previous bat- 
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 Private Company D 
 
 Killed July 26, 1918 near "Red 
 Cross" farm. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Cow- 
 ell, Moravia, Iowa. 
 
 Private Cowell was hit several 
 times by machine gun bullets 
 while advancing with his pla- 
 toon. He was conscious for a 
 short time, spoke of his mother, 
 and called to the men as they 
 passed him, "Go on and get 
 them, fellows — they got me." 
 
 GALLAGHER, JAMES M. 100648 
 
 Private Company D 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 the "Croix Rouge Farm," July 
 26, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 14-E, Map 
 of Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Marcus 
 Gallagher, Rockwell, Iowa. 
 
 Born on January 16, 1891. 
 
 On the first day over the top at \\ 
 Chateau Thierry Private Gal- 
 lagher was hit several times by 
 machine gun bullets. At Lor- 
 raine and Battle of Champagne, 
 he was known as one of the com- 
 pany's best auto-riflemen and 
 was a steady reliable man in the 
 front line. 
 
 
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 Private Company D 
 
 Killed July 26, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry Front. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 14-C, Map 
 of Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. W. E. 
 Brosier, Centerville, Iowa. 
 
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 Private Nicodemus vras killed 
 instantly by machine gun fire. 
 
 On the Lorraine Front he made 
 a record as a dependable sol- 
 dier. 
 
 Private Company D 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 the "Croix Rouge Farm," July 
 26, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 14-B, Map 
 of Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. 
 George, Centenial, Michigan. 
 
 Private George was killed by a 
 machine gun bullet. During 
 the advance a slight shelter was 
 reached and a halt was made. 
 A comrade was wounded near 
 him and he raised his head and 
 it was then he was hit. He had 
 made a good record as a steady 
 trench soldier on the Lorraine 
 Front. 
 
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 Private Company D 
 
 Killed July 26, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry near the "Croix Rouge 
 Farm." 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 13. Map of 
 Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Private Parcel was killed in the 
 first day's advance at Chateau 
 Thierry by machine gun fire. 
 
 He had served with the regiment 
 in Lorraine and at Champagne. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Par- 
 cel, Centerville. Iowa. 
 
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 RAGLAND, MILES B. 
 
 Private Company D 
 
 Killed July 26, 1918 at Chateau 
 
 Thierry near Sergy. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 14-F, Map 
 of Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Mary Ragland,i( 
 Frankfort, Kentucky. 
 
 Private Ragland was killed by 
 machine gun fire in the advance 
 of July 26th. He came as a re- 
 placement to Company D on 
 July 19th. 
 
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 Private Company D 
 
 Killed July 26, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
 Buried in Grave No, 4-A, Map 
 of Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed 
 Mount Olivet, Kentucky. 
 
 Private See was killed by ma- 
 chine gun fire, and died in- 
 stantly. 
 
 He came to the 168th Infantry 
 as a replacement. Chateau 
 Thierry wsls his first battle. 
 
 
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 Corporal Company K 
 
 Killed July 26, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry near Sergy. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 1, Map of 
 Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Sut- 
 ton, Brook, Iowa. 
 
 Company K had stopped in the 
 advance for the night and being 
 under shell fire dug holes for 
 their protection. Corporal Sut- 
 ton was asleep in the hole he 
 had dug when a high explosive 
 shell struck close to him, killing 
 him instantly. 
 
 He had a splendid record as a 
 soldier. 
 
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 Private Company K 
 
 Killed July 26, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 1-B, Map of 
 Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. S. S. 
 Port, Akron, Iowa. 
 
 Private Barr was hit in the chest 
 and legs by fragments of high 
 explosive shell while asleep in a 
 "fox hole" that he had dug for 
 his own protection. His death 
 was instantaneous. 
 
 He had served with the regiment 
 in the Lorraine Sector and at 
 Champagne. 
 
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 Sergeant Company L 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 Epieds, July 26, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 2, Conde- 
 en-brie. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Emelia Bunyan, 
 Keokuk, Iowa. 
 
 Sergeant Bunyan was killed by 
 shell fire while going forward in 
 the attack on Sergy. He was a 
 jovial, whole-hearted personage 
 behind the lines and cool in the 
 face of danger. Had he lived he 
 would have been a valuable 
 leader in the trying days that 
 followed. 
 
 MAYERS, EARL 
 
 Private Company M 
 
 Killed in action July 28, 1918 at 
 Chateau Thierry. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Ellen Mayers, River- 
 ton, Iowa. 
 
 Private Mayers was killed while 
 advancing. He enlisted at the 
 outbreak of the war. 
 
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BOSLEY, GUY E 101186 
 
 Private Company F 
 KiUed July 26, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
 Buried in Grave No, 21-F, Map 
 of Conde-en-brie. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Bos- 
 ley, Clarinda, Iowa. 
 Born May 22, 1896. 
 Private Bosley was killed by ma- 
 chine gun fire. When the pla- 
 toons were formed to go over the 
 top, Alabama troops came 
 through F Company and evi- 
 dently Bosley went on toward 
 the Red Cross Farm with the 
 Alabama men. He was buried 
 near the spot where he fell in 
 the woods southwest of the Farm. 
 Private Bosley was a splendid 
 soldier. 
 
 BAGGS, JIM B. 1567920 
 
 Private Company F 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 Croix Rouge Farm, July 26, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 28, Map of 
 Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Private Baggs came to the com- 
 pany just before they entered 
 the fight at Chateau Thierry, and 
 was killed as his platoon was ad- 
 vancing near the Croix Rouge 
 Farm. Private Baggs was an 
 orphan boy. 
 
 Emergency address, Omer 
 Tucker, Warrington, Indiana. 
 
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 CUMMINGS, CECIL C. 101199 
 
 Private Company F 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry, July 
 26, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 9-C, Map of 
 Conde-en-brie. 
 
 The Fourth Platoon was cross- 
 ing an open field under direct 
 artillery and machine gun fire, 
 Cummings was in the second 
 wave and went over in all of 
 th; t danger with a smile on his 
 face. He was killed instantly 
 by a small piece of high explo- 
 sive shell which struck him in 
 the temple. 
 
 Private Cummings was a good 
 soldier and always liked by 
 everyone. 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. Mc- 
 Ewen, Rolfe, Iowa. 
 
 I- LYNN, SULLIVAN W. 82596 
 
 Private Company F 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 
 the Croix Rouge Farm, July 26, 
 
 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 15-B, Map 
 of Conde-en-brie. 
 Son of Mrs. Mary Flynn, Gen- 
 eva, New York. 
 
 Private Flynn was an automatic 
 rifleman and had become very 
 efficient in his work with the 
 gun. When orders were re- 
 ceived to go over the top, Private 
 Flynn had everything concern- 
 ing his gun ready for immediate 
 action. He and one of his com- 
 rades were standing behind a 
 tree, awaiting the orders to ad- 
 vance, when a large high explo- 
 sive shell struck nearby and 
 killed them both instantly. 
 
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 HOFFMAN, ELMER A. 101277 
 
 Private Company F 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 Croix Rouge Farm, July 26, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No, 29- Map of 
 Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. Charles 
 Krouse, Clarinda, Iowa. 
 
 Private Hoffman was an auto- 
 matic rifleman. Although a 
 small man he proved himself 
 capable of doing a man's full 
 part whenever called on for 
 duty. He was killed instantly 
 by a German shell just after the 
 squad had been formed to go 
 "over the top." 
 
 JOHNSON, CLIFFORD 101232 
 
 Private Company F 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 
 the Croix Rouge Farm, July 26, 
 
 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 18-A, Map 
 of Conde-en-brie. 
 Son of Mrs. Eli Johnson, New- 
 market, Iowa. 
 
 Private Johnson was killed in- 
 stantly by a shell while his 
 platoon was being formed to go 
 over the top. He was an auto- 
 matic rifleman and displayed 
 exceptional ability. 
 Private Johnson was always will- 
 ing to lend a helping hand, al- 
 ways had a smile and greeting 
 for everybody regardless of how 
 tired he himself might be. 
 
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 Private Company F 
 
 Wounded July 26, 1918 at Cha- 
 teau Thierry not far from Sergy. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Gel- 
 der, Moorland, Iowa. 
 
 Private Gelder was wounded 
 immediately after his squad was 
 formed to go "over the top," a 
 shell almost severing his leg 
 from his body. He was very 
 jolly and showed much nerve 
 while his wound was being 
 dressed. He died later in the 
 hospital. Private Gelder was a 
 cheerful soldier, and while hav- 
 ing his wound dressed made the 
 remark that now he would get to 
 go home and see his mother. 
 
 KANIA, JOHN 302554 
 
 Private Company F 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry July 
 26, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 15-C, Map 
 of Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew 
 Kania, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. ( 
 
 Private Kania was killed by a 
 high explosive shell, death being 
 instantaneous. Private Kania 
 was a replacement and although 
 he had not been in the army 
 very long, he was as good a sol- 
 dier as the other boys. 
 
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 First Lieatenant Company G 
 KiUed in action July 26, 1918. 
 Buried near the "Croix Rouge 
 Farm." 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas 
 M. Mills, New York City. 
 During the Chateau Thierry 
 drive the 42nd Division relieved 
 the 26th Division and on July 
 26th started the drive that drove 
 the Boche towards the Vesle 
 River. Lieutenant Mills was in 
 charge of a platoon of Company 
 D who led in the now famous 
 attack against the Croix Rouge 
 Farm. The regiment lost over 
 500 men in three hours in this 
 attack. 
 
 Lieutenant Mills enlisted at the 
 age of thirty-three years, and 
 volunteered his life for his coun- 
 try. 
 
 VALLES, TONY 302252 
 
 Private Company F 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry not 
 far from Scrgy, July 26, 1918. 
 
 Relative's address, Mike Valles, 
 Sharon, Pa. 
 
 Private Valles was killed in- 
 stantly by shell fire just after 
 / the squad was formed to go 
 "over the top." 
 
 Private Valles was an Italian 
 who was naturaUzed after he 
 came into the army. He could 
 not speak much English but 
 knew that his mother country 
 and adopted country were both 
 ^^ i/y / fighting for the same cause. 
 
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PETERSON, OSCAR 101270 
 
 Private Company F 
 
 Killed July 26, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry, 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. P. O. Peter- 
 son, Gowrie, Iowa. 
 
 Private Peterson was an auto- 
 matic rifleman, being a carrier 
 in his squad. When the platoon 
 advanced in the open out of the 
 woods, his gunner asked for a 
 clip of ammunition. As Oscar 
 was fitting in the clip, he was 
 struck and instantly killed by a 
 machine gun buUct. 
 
 He enUsted in April, 1917. 
 
 MARKS, CHARLES A. 101244 
 
 Private Company F 
 
 Killed July 26, 1918 near the 
 Croix Rouge Farm. 
 
 Buried July 28th in Grave No. 
 15-A, Map of Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Private Marks was killed in- 
 stantly as his platoon was form- 
 ing to go "over the top," by a 
 high explosive shell. 
 
 Private Marks was a very pleas- 
 ant man with many friends, very 
 quiet in disposition and a good 
 soldier. 
 
 Relative's address, Thomas A. 
 Jones, Oskaloosa, Iowa. 
 
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ARNOLD, HARRY W. 101411 
 
 Private Company G 
 Killed July 26, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry, near Epieds. 
 Buried in Grave No. 11-B, Map 
 of Conde-en-brie. 
 Son of Mrs. J. E. Mallonee, 
 Ottumwa, Iowa. 
 
 Private Arnold vi^as with his 
 platoon as they were about to go 
 over the top. The enemy 
 shelled their position and Pri- 
 vate Arnold was among those 
 killed. 
 
 He was quiet and unassuming, 
 but devoted to duty, a good sol- 
 dier and admired by all. 
 Private Arnold served on the 
 Mexican Border. 
 Born March 23, 1899. 
 
 MARSON, HARRY W. 101299 
 
 First Sergeant Company G 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry July 
 26, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 10, Map of 
 Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Mar- 
 son, Waterloo, Iowa, 
 While Company G was forming 
 for the attack, the enemy con- 
 centrated a heavy shell fire on 
 the woods in which they were 
 located. One of the first shells 
 burst near Sergeant Marsan, 
 killing him instantly. 
 Sergeant Marson was faithful 
 in duty, and admired by all. 
 Enlisted for border service when 
 only seventeen years old. 
 Attended West High School at 
 Waterloo, Iowa. 
 
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 GRAMMER, RALPH C. 101364 
 
 Private First Class Company G 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 Epieds, July 26, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 25-B, Map 
 of Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. T. 
 Grammer, Ottumwa, Iowa. 
 
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 Private Grammer was with the 
 company when the enemy con- 
 centrated a heavy shell fire on 
 their position. A fragment of 
 shell pierced the abdomen of 
 Private Grammer and killed him 
 instantly. 
 
 He had a smile and a joke for 
 everyone. He had proven him- 
 self to be a good soldier. 
 
 RUBEL, SOLOMON 
 
 First Lieutenant Company G 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry July 
 26, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs, S. Rubel, 
 New York City. 
 
 Lieutenant Rubel came to the 
 regiment at Camp Mills. When 
 we gQt into battle, he proved 
 himself to be one of the best of- 
 ficers of the regiment. His 
 good humor and bravery under 
 fire won the hearts of all. He 
 was made First Lieutenant, and 
 was one of those who was to 
 have been made captan of one 
 of our companies, when death 
 intervened. On July 26th while 
 leading his platoon of Company 
 G, he was shot twice. He 
 bound up his wounds and con- 
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 Private Company G 
 Killed July 26, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry near Epieds. 
 Buried in Grave No. 11-A, Map 
 of Conde-en-brie. 
 Son of Mrs. W. J. Slover, Ot- 
 tumwa, Iowa. 
 
 Private D alley was killed as the 
 company was preparing to go 
 over the top. A heavy shell fire 
 fell on the position and several 
 of the company were killed. 
 Born at Eldon, Iowa, November 
 9, 1894. 
 
 Private D alley had been with the 
 company but three days when he 
 was killed. He was quiet, fear- 
 less and well liked. 
 
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 Private Company G 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 Epieds, July 26, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 7-C, Map 
 of Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Hill- 
 gardner, Ottumwa, Iowa. 
 
 Just before the zero hour in 
 which Company G was to go 
 over the top, a heavy barrage 
 fell on their position. It was in 
 this barrage that Private Hill- 
 gardner was killed. He was a 
 good soldier, jolly and a popular 
 man in the company. 
 
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 Corporal Company G 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 Epieds, July 26, 1918. 
 Buried by Chaplain 167th In- 
 fantry. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. G. R. 
 Vaughn, Des Moines, Iowa. 
 Corporal Vaughn was with the 
 company as they were about to 
 go over the top. A shell burst 
 near Corporal Vaughn and a 
 fragment of it killed him in- 
 stantly. 
 
 He was a fearless soldier, a good 
 leader and well liked by all. 
 Enlisted at Waterloo and served 
 on the Mexicatai Border. 
 Born in Waterloo, September 20, 
 1898. 
 
 RANKIN, CLAUDE E. 
 
 Private Company G 
 
 Son of Mrs. Luella Fillman, St. 
 Petersburg, Pa. 
 
 Killed July 26, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry. Private Rankin was 
 killed by a bursting shrapnel 
 shell in the advance of July 26. 
 
 He was a popular man with the 
 men and made a record as a 
 fearless soldier. 
 
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MERKLE, ERNEST F. 101154 
 
 Private First Class Company F 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 the Croix Rouge Farm, July 26, 
 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 15-D, Map 
 of Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. George 
 Merkle, LeVerne, Iowa. 
 
 The squad was ready to go "over 
 the top" and Private Merkle was 
 standing behind a large tree with 
 another man, when a large shell 
 struck very near, killing them 
 both. 
 
 Private Merkle was a fine boy 
 with absolutely no bad habits. 
 The boys of Company F all 
 loved him. 
 
 PETERSON CHARLES H. 101259 
 Private First Class Company F. 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 La Monte Farm, July 26th. 
 Buried in Grave No. 30-B, Map 
 of Conde-en-brie. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew 
 Peterson, Dayton, Iowa. 
 Private Peterson had beeTi ou 
 outpost all day under heavy ma- 
 chine gun and shell fire and at 
 all times during that day he 
 
 ' showed himself to be cool and 
 self-possessed. He was recalled 
 from outpost when the order 
 came to go "over the top" and 
 had just stepped out to move 
 forward when a German shell 
 killed him instantly. Private 
 Peterson was quiet but always 
 dependable. 
 
 Born at Dayton, Iowa, February 
 22, 1894. 
 
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 HANFT, ALLEN 102148 
 
 Private Company K 
 
 Killed July 26th at Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 1-D, Map of 
 Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. 
 Hanft, Columbus Junction, Iowa. 
 
 Private Hanft was asleep in a 
 hole which he had dug for his 
 protection, as the Germans were 
 shelling our positions. He was 
 kiUed by a high explosive shell 
 which hit close to him. 
 
 McCUNN, MERLE W. 
 
 First Lieutenant Company E 
 
 Died in Field Hospital No. 109, 
 28th Division. 
 
 Wounded July 26th in Foret de 
 Fere near Chateau Thierry. 
 
 Lieutenant McCunn had seen 
 eleven years of National Guard 
 Service, having served on the 
 Mexican Border and through the 
 Lorraine campaign and the Bat- 
 tle of Champagne. 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. Merle 
 W. McCunn, Shenandoah, Iowa. 
 
 Born at Shambaugh, Iowa, Octo- 
 ber 8, 1887. 
 
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 GRIDLEY, LAWRENCE W. 101109 
 Private First Class, Company F 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 the Croix Rouge Farm, July 26th. 
 Buried in grave No. 18-B, Map 
 of Conde-en-brie. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. 
 Gridley, Villisca, Iowa. 
 Private Gridley was wounded 
 while carrying a message, ana 
 died a short time afterwards. 
 He was wounded in both legs and 
 right shoulder. A short time be- 
 fore this he had volunteered to 
 carry a message for his third pla- 
 toon when the platoon runner 
 was afraid to go. This was a 
 very important run, and being the 
 company runner, he was not re- 
 quired to go, but he insisted and 
 made the trip. Private Gridley 
 is said to have been deserving of 
 a medal for his bravery. 
 
 HUDSON, CHARLES M. 101138 
 
 Private First Class, Company F 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry July 
 26th. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 5-A, Map of 
 Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Hud- 
 son, Oakdale, California. 
 
 Private Hudson was the first 
 man of this company to die on 
 the Chateau Thierry Front. He 
 was killed instantly by a high 
 explosive shell. 
 
 Private Hudson was a good 
 steady soldier, serving on the bor- 
 der, and was very prompt to vol- 
 unteer his services for the World 
 War. 
 
 Born May 23, 1898 at Waterloo, 
 Iowa. 
 
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O'BOYLE, JOSEPH E. 101100 
 
 Corporal Company F 
 
 Killed July 26th at Chateau 
 Thierry front. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. 
 O'Boyle, Fort Dodge, Iowa. 
 
 Corporal O 'Boyle's squad was on 
 outpost duty during the day and 
 though everybody kept in their 
 holes, he was continually mov- 
 ing from place to place looking 
 after the welfare of his men. He 
 was killed instantly by a high 
 
 Corporal O'Boyle was an excep- 
 tional soldier. He was a perfect 
 soldier, a perfect gentleman and 
 a true friend. He had great 
 promises to gain a commission 
 had he lived. 
 
 ELLIOTT, CLARENCE M. 101095 
 Corporal Company F 
 Killed July 26, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 6-A, Map 
 of Conde-en-brie. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. E. A, 
 Elliott, Fort Dodge, Iowa. 
 Corporal Elliott had just formed 
 his squad ready to go over the 
 top when a machine gun bullet 
 struck him, passing through his 
 heart and killing him instantly. 
 He was only a boy in age but 
 was much superior to many men 
 in handling his squad. He was 
 ofiFered a clerk's position but pre- 
 ferred to stay in the line. Though 
 a corporal while in Lorraine, and 
 knowing nothing about an auto- 
 matic rifle, he voluntarily took a 
 private's place on post and stood 
 there all one night. ^ 
 
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 JACKSON, FLOYD E. 101144 
 
 Corporal Company F 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 
 the Croix Rouge Farm, July 26, 
 
 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 15-E, Map 
 of Conde-en-brie. 
 Corporal Jackson was killed in- 
 stantly by a high explosive shell. 
 He was in charge of the mail, 
 also corporal of the Headquar- 
 ters Squad. When the order 
 came to go "over the top" he 
 formed the squad and started 
 forward with the remark that 
 his section might not be very 
 busy, but they could show the 
 Dutch how to fight. 
 Corporal Jackson was one of 
 the best soldiers of his company 
 and well liked by all. 
 Relative's address, Mrs. John 
 Hayes, Clarinda, Iowa. 
 
 GRAHAM, JOHN E, 156426 
 
 Private Company K 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry, July 
 26, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. l-I, Map of 
 Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Gra- 
 ham, Horspen, West Va. 
 
 Private Graham was resting in 
 a hole that he had dug for his 
 own protection when he was hit 
 in the hip by fragments from a 
 high explosive shell. He died 
 on the way to the dressing sta- 
 tion. 
 
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KENYON, LEO N. 102153 
 
 Private Company K 
 
 Killed July 26th at Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 1-C, Map of 
 Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Private Kenyon was killed by a 
 high explosive shell while asleep 
 in a hole he had dug for his pro- 
 tection. 
 
 He had served with the regi- 
 ment in the Lorraine Sector and 
 at Champagne. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Ken- 
 yon, Brooks, Iowa. 
 
 Born at Brooks, Iowa, March 17, 
 1898. 
 
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 ELLIOT, HOWARD 100248 
 
 Private Company B 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 Le Charnel, July 26th. 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. W. C. 
 Kurz, Wilmette, 111. 
 
 r^ Private Elliott was killed by ma 
 
 chine gun fire while he was ad' 
 
 '. ' vancing in the attack near Le 
 
 Charnel. He was a member of 
 
 the platoon that was cited for 
 
 ! the "Croix de Guerre" for gal- 
 
 ; ' ' lantry during the raid of March 
 
 ' 5, 1918. 
 
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 MOORE, KENNETH 100239 
 
 Private Company B 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 Le Charnel, July 16, 1918. 
 
 Private Moore was mortally 
 wounded while helping a com- 
 rade back to safety across an 
 open road swept by machine 
 gun fire. He went out across,, 
 this bullet swept road voluntar- 
 ily well knowing that he was ex- 
 posing himself to danger. He 
 was a member of the platoon 
 cited for bravery on March 5, 
 1918 in French Divisional Or- 
 ders. 
 
 Relative's address. Miss Juretta 
 Jordan, Des Moines, Iowa. 
 
 FRANCIS, JOHN 100173 
 
 Private Company B 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 Le Charnel, July 26, 1918. 
 Buried in grave No. 6-C, Map 
 of Conde-en-brie. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. 
 Francis, Des Moines, Iowa. 
 Private Francis lost his life by 
 a high explosive shell near Le 
 Charnel, while returning after 
 delivering a message to the offi- 
 cer in charge of a patrol. 
 Private Francis always volun- 
 teered for extra work and per- 
 formed that work courageously. 
 He was a member of the First 
 Platoon cited for bravery in 
 French Divisional Orders for 
 action on March 5th and was 
 with the party that tried to hang 
 a Liberty Loan poster on the 
 door of a German dug-out in 
 Lorraine. 
 
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SNELSON, ROBERT O. 100312 
 Private Company B 
 
 Killed July 26th at Chateau 
 Thierry near Le Charnel. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. 
 Snelson, Summerset, Iowa. 
 
 Private Snelson was killed by a ^ 
 high explosive shell near the' 
 road leading north from Le 
 Charnel. This was the first ac- 
 tion in the advance on Sergy. 
 Private Snelson was respected 
 by all his comrades. 
 
 SOUTH, HOWARD 100313 
 
 Private Company B 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 Le Charnel, July 26, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs, Isaac 
 South, R. F. D. No. 1, Massena, 
 Iowa, 
 
 Private South was killed by a 
 machine gun bullet while advanc- 
 ing over a camouflaged road near 
 Le Charnel. 
 
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 SPAUTZ, MATHEW S. 99868 
 
 Sergeant Company A 
 
 Killed July 26th at edge of Bel- 
 
 leau Woods on Chateau Thierry 
 
 Front. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 4-B, Conde- 
 en-brie. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael 
 Spautz, Dubuque, Iowa. 
 Sergeant Spautz's platoon be- 
 came lost from the rest of the 
 company, due to the density of 
 the forest and heavy artillery 
 fire. He ably reorganized his pla- 
 toon, and led them forward, al- 
 though he had no orders to ad- 
 vance. He heroically charged 
 across the shell swept area 
 against murderous machine gun 
 fire. 
 
 Awarded the D. S. C. for his 
 heroic work. 
 
 SHOEMAKER, WILLIAM H. 
 
 99942 Corporal Company A 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry July 
 26th. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 16-A, Conde- 
 en-brie. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Shoe- 
 maker, Winterset, Iowa. 
 Corporal Shoemaker was severe- 
 ly wounded while leading his 
 squad in the advance on Sergy,™ 
 and lived only a few minutes. ^\ 
 He was devoted to his duty, al- 
 ways thorough and exemplary. 
 Corporal Shoemaker was an ex- 
 ceptional squad leader, always 
 clean and faithful. 
 He was regarded as an example 
 of the highest Christian manhood 
 by his comrades. 
 
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 GILMORE, CARCIA H. 100921 
 
 Private Company D 
 Died July 27th at Evacuation 
 hospital No. 7. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 4 in row No. 
 20, American grave yard, Chateau 
 Montauglaust, near Coulom- 
 miers, S, Sc M., Section B. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Gil- 
 more, Parker, Indiana. 
 While his platoon v*ras advancing 
 towards the "Red Cross Farm" 
 near Sergy, they were met by a 
 heavy machine gun fire. Early 
 in the fight Private Gilmore was 
 seriously wounded, having re- 
 ceived seven machine gun bul- 
 lets through the thigh. It was 
 impossible to evacuate him to 
 the first aid station until the next 
 morning, and he died from the 
 exposure and from his wounds. 
 
 FOSTER, CLARENCE K. 99959 
 Private Company A 
 Wounded in action at Chateau 
 Thierry, July 26, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Fos- 
 ter, Britt, Iowa. 
 
 At Chateau Thierry Private Fos- 
 ter advanced through some 
 woods that had been gassed. 
 Realizing that he had been ex- 
 posed to the fumes, yet thinking 
 he was strong enough to resist 
 them, he continued on until he 
 could go no further and was or- 
 dered to the rear. He died at 
 Base Hospital No. 36 on Septem- 
 ber 26th and was buried in grave 
 No. 4, cemetery No. 285. 
 Private Foster did exceptional 
 work in Lorraine. 
 
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 SEARS, IRWIN L. 
 
 Private Company D 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Sears, 
 Oskaloosa, Iowa. 
 Private Sears was killed in ac- 
 tion July 27, 1918, near Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
 Born at Wayne, Neb., March 4, 
 1895. 
 
 Private Sears was killed by the 
 concussion from a high explo- 
 sive shell. 
 
 Private Sears was in the Lor- 
 raine Sector with the company, 
 and at Champagne he showed 
 bravery in carrying messages 
 through the bomljardment. 
 
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 GRESS, ROBERT A. 102366 
 
 Private Company I. 
 
 Killed July 27, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman 
 
 Gress, Council Bluffs, Iowa. ( 
 
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 Private Gress was killed by shell ; 
 fire while advancing with his 
 company to the Ourcq river. 
 Gress was clean cut, honorable 
 and soldierly. 
 
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 HAMILTON, WILLIAM D. 102297 
 
 Private Company L 
 
 Killed July 27, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry near Epieds. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Ham- 
 ilton, Rock Island, 111. 
 
 Side by side with Sergeant Bun- 
 yan, fell Private Hamilton, a 
 smaller man but justly entitled 
 to a high place in the memory of 
 his comrades and friends. 
 
 HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL 
 
 102225 Sergeant Company L 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 the Faviere Farm. 
 
 Sergeant Holmes was killed by 
 shell fire while bivouacking in 
 the Faviere farm just prior to 
 crossing the Ourcq river. He was 
 one of those men whom all brave\\ 
 men must admire. 
 
 Sergeant Holmes was never 
 found wanting. 
 
 Emergency address, Council 
 Bluffs, Iowa. Mrs. M. A. 
 Holmes, mother. 
 
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AUEN, EILERT 100133 
 
 Sergeant Company B 
 
 Killed July 27th at Chateau 
 Thierry near Le Charnel. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Eilert 
 Aucn, Sr., Lake View, Iowa. 
 
 Sergeant Auen was wounded by 
 a high explosive shell while ad- 
 vancing with his platoon near 
 Le Charnel. He died on the way 
 to the hospital. 
 
 Sergeant Auen had performed 
 exceptional service on patrol 
 work while in the Lorraine Sec- 
 tor. 
 
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 EVANS, THOMAS R. 99255 
 
 Corporal Headquarters Company 
 
 Died at Field Hospital No. 103, 
 July 27th. 
 
 Corporal Evans was assigned to 
 the Signal Platoon. He was with 
 his platoon in the Lorraine Sec- 
 tor and at Champagne. While 
 on duty at Chateau Thierry ad- 
 vancing one of the telephones^ 
 lines, he had his right leg blown 
 off and died in the hospital soon 
 after reaching it. 
 
 Evans was counted as one of the 
 most reliable men of his platoon. 
 
 Emergency address. Miss Jane 
 Burson, Glenwood, Iowa. 
 
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 HIGGS, METHIAS 246783 
 
 Corporal Company B 
 
 Killed near Sergy, July 28, 1918. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 70, Map of 
 Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 
 Relative's address. Miss E. 
 Higgs, Rumsey, Ky. 
 
 Corporal Higgs was instantly 
 killed by a high explosive shell 
 while the company was consol- 
 idating a new position after 
 crossing the Ourcq river. 
 
 He was formerly a member of 
 the regular army and was in the 
 engagement at Badonvillier, 
 March 5th. 
 
 CRANDALL, MELVIN L. 302405 
 
 Private First Class, Company D 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 Sergy, July 27, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley 
 Crandall, Pittsford, Mich. 
 
 At Chateau Thierry the company 
 had "dug in" for the night a few 
 kilometers from Sergy. The Ger- 
 mans concentrated a heavy ar- 
 tillery fire on the sector and Pri- 
 vate Crandall was killed by a 
 high explosive shell. 
 
 In the trenches in Lorraine and 
 during the bombardment at 
 Champagne, he made a good 
 record as a brave and fearless 
 fighter. 
 
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 PIEPER, WILLIAM 99309 
 
 Private First Class, Headquarters 
 
 Company 
 Died July 28, 1918. 
 Son of Mrs. Catherine Pieper, 
 Lu Venne, Minn. 
 Private Pieper died of wounds 
 received in action on July 28th. 
 
 He was a member of the 37th 
 platoon which had been ordered 
 to the front to destroy some ma- 
 chine gun nests. Just before the 
 gun had been placed they were 
 observed by the enemy artillery 
 which opened fire. A fragment 
 of high explosive shell struck 
 Private Pieper in the side. He 
 was immediately started for the 
 hospital but died before reach- 
 ing it. 
 
 SMITH, CARROLL B. 84232 
 
 Private Headquarters Company 
 Killed July 28, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry near Sergy. 
 Buried in grave No. 16-B, Map 
 of Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. T. B. 
 Smith, Kirwin, Kansas. 
 Private Smith was a member of 
 the Gun Platoon of Headquar- 
 ters Company. During the offen- 
 sive in Chateau Thierry the gun 
 platoon under the command of 
 Lieutenant Howell was sent for- 
 ward to drive out some machine 
 gun nests. They were seen by 
 German observers and the artil- 
 lery opened a terrific fire on 
 them. The men took refuge in 
 a ditch at the roadside, but one 
 shell made a direct hit on the 
 gun crew, killing Private Smith 
 instantly. 
 
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 HAARER, EDWARD K. 302484 
 
 Private Company B 
 
 Died July 28, 1918 at Field Hos- 
 pital, No. 117. 
 
 Wounded at Foret de Fere near 
 Chateau Thierry. 
 
 Son of Christine Haarer, Bay 
 City, Mich. 
 
 Private Haarer joined the com- 
 pany in Lorraine in April and 
 served during the remainder of 
 the Lorraine Campaign and the 
 Battle of Champagne. He was a 
 good soldier and always did his 
 duty. 
 
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 Private Company E 
 
 Died July 28, 1918 at Field Hos- 
 pital, No. 117. 
 
 Private Johnson volunteered in a 
 daylight patrol. Out of seven 
 men, only one returned alive. 
 
 Private Johnson was severely 
 
 wounded, having received twen- 
 
 ^ ty-three machine gun wounds. 
 
 He was one of the first to enter 
 Sergy. 
 
 Private Johnson was a good sol- 
 dier and a hard and faithful 
 worker. 
 
 Relative's address, M. O. Hen- 
 derson, Charles City, Iowa. 
 
 
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KIRCHOFF, ARTHUR W. 100999 
 Private Company E 
 Killed July 28th on the edge of 
 Sergy. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. John 
 Kirchoflf, Hartley, Iowa. 
 
 Private Kirchoff was one of the 
 patrol which was the first to en- 
 ter Sergy and while on this mis- 
 sion he met his death. He had 
 volunteered to become a mem- 
 ber of the Second Battalion 
 Scouts with whom he served 
 throughout the Lorraine Cam- 
 paign and the Battle of Cham- 
 pagne. 
 
 Kirchoff was a loyal soldier who 
 always did his duty. 
 
 FLOWERS, PIERCE H. 100858 
 
 Corporal Company E 
 Killed July 28, 1918 at Sergy. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Flowers, 
 Coin, Iowa. 
 
 On the night of July 28th Cor- 
 poral Flowers was chosen as the 
 leader of a patrol to enter Sergy. 
 On the edge of the town the 
 patrol was met by machine gun 
 fire and Pierce was killed. His 
 was the first patrol to enter the 
 town of Sergy and the report 
 brought back was of the greatest 
 benefit to the officer in charge of 
 the operations. 
 
 Corporal Flowers was a brave 
 and fearless soldier who had 
 distinguished himself on several 
 occasions. 
 
 Born near Coin, Iowa, May 21, 
 1895. 
 
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THOMPSON, ARTHUR 100442 
 
 Private First Class, Company C 
 
 Killed July 28, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry near the Ourcq river. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 20-D, Map 
 
 of Fere-en-Tardinois, one and 
 
 one-half kilometers south and 
 east of Sergy. 
 
 Private Thompson was with his 
 company while they were attack- 
 ing toward Hill 212. He was 
 knocked down by a high explo- 
 sive shell and another shell ex- 
 ploded near him, killing him in- 
 stantly. 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. E. M. 
 Foster, Afton, Iowa. 
 
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 KOPS, EDWARD 302577 
 
 Private Company C 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 the Mercey Farm, July 28, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Salmon 
 Kops, Milwaukee, Wis. 
 
 Private Kops was advancing with 
 his company up a valley near 
 Mercey Farm when he was hit 
 in the head by a fragment of a 
 high explosive shell and killed 
 instantly. He came to the regi- 
 ment just before we entered the 
 Champagne Sector. 
 
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 McAVOY, DEWEY 102169 
 
 Private Company K 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry, July 
 28, 1918. 
 
 Soil of Mrs. Mary McAvoy, 
 Washington, Iowa. 
 
 While advancing toward Hill 212 
 with the company, Private 
 McAvoy was hit and seriously 
 wounded by high explosive shell. 
 He was placed in an ambulance 
 and started for the hospital but 
 died before he reached it. 
 
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 LEONARD, TOM 102083 
 
 Private Comiyany K 
 
 Killed July 28th at Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 2-A, Map of 
 Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. R. I. Leo- 
 nard, St. Joseph, Mo. 
 
 While advancing with the com- 
 pany towards the Ourcq river, 
 Private Leonard was hit in the 
 chest and face by a higlj explo- 
 sive shell fragments and died a 
 few moments later. He was ren- 
 dered unconscious by the shock 
 and died without suiTering. 
 
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LOCHRIE, WILLIAM C. 102163 
 
 Private Company K 
 
 Killed July 28, 1918, at Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 4, Map of 
 Fere-en-Tardinois . 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. D, 
 Lochrie, Kansas City, Kansas. 
 
 While advancing toward the 
 Ourcq river with his company, 
 Private Lochrie was hit in the 
 back by a piece of high explosive 
 shell and killed instantly. 
 
 WALLACE, FLOYD E. 102217 
 
 Private Company K 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry, July 
 28th. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 5, Map of 
 Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Wal- 
 lace, Washington, Iowa. 
 
 Private Wallace was killed by a 
 high explosive while advancing 
 to the Ourcq river. 
 
 He had served with the regiment 
 in Lorraine and at Champagne. 
 
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 HAYES, FRED A. 100367 
 
 Corporal Company C 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 Hill 212, July 28, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hayes, 
 Morning Sun, Iowa. 
 
 Corporal Hayes was advancing 
 with his men. They were under 
 a heavy fire from the enemy's 
 machine guns and were lying 
 down in a skirmish line. While 
 they were waiting to continue the 
 advance. Corporal Hayes was 
 shot through the heart by a ma- 
 chine gun bullet and instantly 
 killed. 
 
 SMITH, JAMES E. 101190 
 
 Private First Class, Company F 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry, July 
 28, 1918. 
 
 The company, or what was left 
 of it, was on Hill 212 when the 
 order came to place an outpost 
 to the right on a small ditch, 
 which was under heavy shell 
 fire. While on his way to this 
 post Smith was hit and instantly 
 killed by an enemy shell. 
 Private Smith was 39 years old 
 and, as he said, enlisted to keep 
 some younger man from going, 
 who had dependents. 
 He had poor health all the time 
 but never gave up and can well 
 be termed "A true soldier of the 
 old school." 
 
 Emergency address. Will I. 
 Lyon, Jefferson, Iowa. 
 
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 JARVIS, JOHN R. 100384 
 
 Corporal Company C 
 
 KiUed July 28, 1918, at Chateau 
 Thierry near Hill 212. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 20-A, Map 
 of Fere-en-Tardinois, about two 
 kilometers south of Sergy. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Jar- 
 vis, Creston, Iowa. 
 
 Corporal Jarvis was advancing 
 with his platoon. They were in 
 a skirmish hne advancing 
 against the German front hne, 
 when he was hit by a high ex- 
 plosive shell and killed instantly. 
 
 HART, HARRY 101551 
 
 Sergeant Company H 
 
 Killed along the Ourcq river. 
 
 July 28, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Hart, Oskaloosa, Iowa. 
 
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 Sergeant Hart was the youngest 
 sergeant in the regiment. He 
 was twenty years old. 
 
 Hart was killed while the com- 
 pany was advancing on the 
 Ourcq river. 
 
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 101585 
 
 Corporal Company H 
 
 Killed near Hill 212, along the 
 Ourcq river. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Mor- 
 row. ( 
 
 Corporal Morrow died on the 
 way to the hospital from wounds 
 he had received during the ad- 
 vance on the Ourcq river. 
 
 MORRIS, SOL 101555 
 
 Sergeant Company H 
 Killed along the Ourcq river, 
 July 28th. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Rosa Morris, Oska- 
 loosa, Iowa. 
 
 Sergeant Morris was killed while 
 
 leading his platoon "over the 
 
 top" on HiU 212. 
 
 Sergeant Morris enlisted at the 
 
 outbreak of the war. 
 
 A man well Uked by all and a 
 
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 BARRETT, OWEN W. 302372 
 
 Private Company H 
 
 Killed July 28, 1918 along the 
 Ourcq river. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Margaret Barrett, 
 Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. 
 
 Private Barrett was killed dur- 
 ing the advance on Hill 212. 
 
 Bagler Company H 
 
 Killed July 28, 1918 along the 
 Ourcq river. Bauder was killed 
 while the company was advanc- 
 ing on the Ourcq river. He 
 showed great courage all through 
 the struggle. 
 
 Son of Mrs. J. J. Ellsworth, 
 Oskaloosa, Iowa. 
 
 Born at Grinnell, Iowa, Decem- 
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 PrivttiB^ompany H 
 
 Killed July 28, 1918 near the 
 Ourcq river. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. 
 Blakeley, Montezuma, Iowa. 
 
 Private Blakeley was killed while 
 advancing on the Ourcq river 
 through heavy shell fire. 
 
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 FULLER, RAYMOND F. 101681 
 
 Private Company H 
 
 Private Fuller was killed on Hill 
 212, while taking a machine gun 
 nest. 
 
 A good Christian soldier liked b'jA 
 all the men of his company and 
 always had a kind word for all. 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. W. G. 
 Morse, Kinsman, Ohio. 
 
 
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 MARTIN, HOWARD C. 101709 
 
 Private Company H 
 
 Killed along the Ourcq river, 
 July 28, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 46-B, Map 
 of Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 
 Private Howard was killed dur- 
 ing the advance on Hill 212, 
 through heavy machine gun fire. 
 
 Born August 2, 1888 near Oska- 
 loosa, Iowa, 
 
 Served on Mexican Border in 
 1916. 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. E. C. 
 Clark, Mitchell, South Dakota. 
 
 NEWTON, PERRY E. 101626 
 
 Private Company H 
 
 Killed near Hill 212, along the 
 Ourcq river, July 28, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Harley 
 Newton, Oskaloosa, Iowa. 
 
 Private Newton was killed on the 
 morning of our advance on the 
 Ourcq river by a high explosive 
 shell, the same one that killed 
 First Sergeant Harry Hart. 
 
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URRY, CLAYTON D. 302283 
 
 Private Company H 
 
 Killed at the Chateau Thierry 
 Front, July 28, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No, 21-H, Map 
 of Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Urry, 
 Kalamazoo, Michigan. 
 
 Private Urry was killed on Hill 
 212, being constantly at the side 
 of Lieutenant Creaton, the same 
 shell kilhng both men. 
 
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 DUNN, MORRIS 102240 
 
 Corporal Company L. 
 Killed July 28, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 25-B, Map 
 of Conde-en-brie. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. 
 Dunn, Council BlufiFs, Iowa. 
 
 Corporal Dunn was kiUed neai 
 the town of Sergy as the regi- / 
 ment was crossing the Ourcq ' 
 river. The regiment had experi- 
 enced severe fighting and had 
 lost about 800 men in two days. 
 The heroism of the boys who 
 died fighting across the Ourcq 
 and the capture of Hill 212 will 
 never be forgotten by those com- 
 rades who were with them in the 
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 COOPER, LAWRENCE F. 101196 
 Private Company F 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 Sergy, July 28, 1918. 
 Buried in Grave No. 14, Map of 
 Fere-cn-Tardinois . 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Coop- 
 er, Clarinda, Iowa. 
 Company F had advanced to the 
 Ourcq river and the column had 
 been held up for a moment. 
 Private Cooper was sitting be- 
 hind a tree when a shell lit near. 
 A small piece of the shrapnel 
 struck him in the head and killed 
 him instantly. 
 
 Private Cooper was an earnest 
 soldier and always dependable, 
 never shirking his duties. He 
 had done very good work in the 
 first two days of fighting at Cha- 
 teau Thierry. 
 
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 BAILEY, WILLIAM 246892 
 
 Private Company G 
 
 Killed July 28, 1918 at Hill 212 
 near Sergy. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 10-A, Map 
 of Fere-cn-Tardinois. 
 
 Private Bailey was killed by a 
 fragment of a high explosive 
 shell while he was advancing up 
 Hill 212 near Sergy. 
 
 He was very quiet, but cheerful, 
 a good soldier and devoted to 
 duty. Private Bailey came to 
 the 168th as a replacement from 
 the 41st Division. 
 
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 CLEMENS, HARRY E. 
 
 Private Company G 
 
 Died July 28, 1918. 
 
 Relative's address, Roy Clemens, 
 Dubuque, Iowa. 
 
 Private Clemens, while with his 
 platoon, was wounded on July 
 26th, and was removed to the 
 hospital, where he died of 
 wounds on the 28th. 
 Private Clemens was the life of 
 the platoon. He was fearless, a 
 good leader and well liked by 
 everyone. 
 
 CLAFFEY, EDWARD SOREN 
 
 102121 
 
 Private Company K 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry, July 
 28, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 2-B, Map of 
 Fere-en-Tardinois . 
 
 
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 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Reynolda( o 
 Claffey, Rockford, Washingt 
 
 Private Claffey was advancing 
 with the company towards Hill 
 212 when he was hit in the neck 
 by a high explosive and killed. 
 
 He had served with the regiment 
 in Lorraine and Champagne. 
 
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 Private Company K 
 
 KiUed July 28, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
 Private Chriscinske was killed 
 while advancing with the com- 
 pany on Hill 212 near Sergy. He 
 was hit in the head by a ma- 
 chine gun bullet and his death 
 was instantaneous. 
 
 He had served with the regiment 
 in Lorraine and at Champagne. 
 
 FLANNIGAN, JOHN 102056 
 
 Private Company K 
 
 Died from wounds received at 
 Chateau Thierry on July 28, 1918. 
 
 While advancing toward the 
 Ourcq river Private Flannigan 
 was wounded in the thigh by ma- 
 chine gun bullets and died in the 
 hospital later on. 
 
 Relative's address, O. M. 
 O'Handlan, Washington, Iowa. 
 
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 ANDERSON, LEONARD 302330 
 
 Private First Class Company L 
 
 Killed July 28, 1918 near Sergy. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 19-C, Map 
 of Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 
 Private Anderson was killed by 
 machine gun fire in the attack on 
 Hill 212. 
 
 He vras a soldier who had all the 
 qualities of a military man and a 
 gentleman. He was always on 
 the job with energy, intelligence 
 and willingness. 
 
 Relative's address. Miss Carri; 
 Anderson, Milwaukee, Wis. 
 
 HOLMAN, IRA V. 100655 
 
 Corporal Company D 
 Killed July 30, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry near Sergy. 
 Buried in Grave No. 43-B, Map 
 of Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Hol- 
 man, Moravia, Iowa. 
 
 Corporal Holman was killed in 
 the advance on Sergy by a ma- 
 chine gun bullet. He lived only' 
 a few minutes. 
 
 Corporal Holman made a splen- 
 did record at Lorraine and 
 Champagne. He was made cor- 
 poral because he was cool-head- 
 ed, showed good judgment as a 
 leader, also exceptional ability. 
 Born in Centerville, December 
 24, 1890. 
 
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 MEAN, ORVILLE E. 102177 
 
 Private Company K 
 
 Killed July 28, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. E. 
 Means, Washington, Iowa. 
 
 Private Means was asleep in a 
 "fox hole" he had dug for his 
 protection, previous to our ad- 
 vance to the Ourcq river. A 
 high explosive hit near by and 
 killed him instantly. 
 
 41 M Private Means always had a 
 word of cheer for all his com- 
 rades. 
 
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 TIMOTHY, CHRISTOPHER S. 
 
 Second Lieutenant Company K 
 Died from wounds received in 
 action on July 28, 1918. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Tim- 
 othy, Chattanooga, Tennessee. 
 When the regiment attacked Hill 
 212 after crossing the Ourcq 
 river. Lieutenant Timothy was 
 leading his platoon to capture 
 some machine guns. He was hit 
 in the lung by a spray of ma- 
 chine gun bullets. He was badl 
 wounded and when put in thCi 
 ambulance realized he was going 
 to die. He said, "Tell Tommy to 
 tell the folks goodbye, tell them 
 I died an honorable death, I died 
 fighting." 
 
 Lieutenant Timothy's courage 
 and his devotion and love for his 
 men made him one of our best 
 young officers. 
 
 
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 TRIPLOW, MARTIN A 102686 
 
 Private Company M 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry, July 
 28, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 21-C, Map 
 of Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 
 Private Triplow was struck by 
 high explosive early in the fight 
 at Chateau Thierry. He had gone 
 through all the trench warfare in 
 the Lorraine Sector and at the 
 Champagne Front. 
 
 He was a good soldier, well liked 
 by all his comrades, and always 
 to be depended upon in time of 
 trouble. 
 
 Relative's address, Anna Trep- 
 ton. Bloomer, Wisconsin. 
 
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 BRADSHAW, VINTON C. 102016 
 
 Corporal Company K 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 Sergy, July 28, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 1, Map of 
 Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Brad- 
 shaw. Battle Creek, Iowa. 
 
 Corporal Bradshaw was dressing 
 the wounds of a comrade when 
 a high explosive shell hit close 
 to him and caused wounds from 
 which he died about two hours 
 later. 
 
 Corporal Bradshaw made an ex- 
 cellent record as a leader and a 
 soldier of exceptional qualities. 
 
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 HAZZARD, WILLARD S. 246647 
 
 Private Company M 
 
 Killed July 28, 1918 north of 
 Chateau Thierry during the at- 
 tack on HiU 212. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 47-A, Map 
 of Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Haz- 
 zard, Heathsville, Virginia. 
 
 Private Hazzard was killed by a 
 machine gun bullet, dying almost 
 instantly. 
 
 He was a brave soldier, one of 
 our best, admired and loved by 
 the rest of his fellows ; ready at 
 all times to do his duty, and ad- 
 vanced as fearlessly as any sol- 
 dier in the fight. 
 
 HAMMONS, HARRY W. 101824 
 
 Corporal Company I 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 Hill 212, July 28, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 21-E, Map 
 of Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 
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 Son of Mrs. Laura 
 Malvern, Iowa. 
 
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 After the company had gained 
 their objective in the fight for 
 Hill 212, he was hit by machine 
 gun bullets, resulting in his 
 death. 
 
 As a non-commissioned officer 
 Corporal Hammons was well 
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 DUFFIELD, GEORGE C. 
 
 Corporal Company G 
 Killed on July 28, 1918 at Cha- 
 teau Thierry near Meurcy Farm. 
 Buried near where he fell. 
 Corporal Duffield volunteered 
 along with three other comrades 
 to go out after a wounded man. 
 As they were nearing the en- 
 trance of a temporary hospital, a 
 shell struck almost in their midst 
 and all were killed instantly, ex- 
 cept one man. 
 
 George had a very nice voice 
 and helped to entertain the boys 
 while "over there." 
 He was well liked by all the com- 
 pany and was considered one of 
 the best soldiers in Company G. 
 Relative's address, Robert Sloan, 
 Keosauqua, Iowa, 
 
 WENIEKE, LOUIS H. 101773 
 
 Corporal Company I 
 Killed July 28, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 3, 800 
 meters east of Church, Depart- 
 ment of Carte Taride. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Wenieke, 
 Burlington, Iowa. 
 Corporal Wenieke was corporal 
 of an automatic squad from the 
 time the regiment came to 
 France. During the drive at 
 Chateau Thierry he performed 
 valuable service and directed 
 his men with skill. His gunner 
 was killed and he took the gun 
 in the advance on Hill 212, and 
 while advancing was hit by ma- 
 chine gun bullets and instantly 
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 Private Company 1 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 Hill 212, July 28, 1918. 
 
 During the engagement on the 
 Champagne Front, his corporal 
 becoming wounded, he took 
 charge of the squad and ably 
 conducted it through the fight. 
 
 Private Miller was killed by 
 shell fire on Hill 212, near Sergy 
 shortly after the company had 
 reached the objective. 
 
 At one time while on patrol, he 
 was surrounded by the enemy, 
 but managed to fight his way 
 back to our lines in safety. 
 
 Relative's address, F. E. Shafer, 
 Malvern, Iowa. 
 
 RADFORD, PAUL H. 101950 
 
 Private Company I 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry, July 
 28, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 3, 800 
 meters east of Church, Depart- 
 ment of Mesne Carte Taride. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Chess 
 Radford, Glenwood, Iowa. 
 
 Private Radford was killed in 
 the battle for Hill 212 by ma- 
 chine gun fire. 
 
 He could always be trusted to 
 carry out any mission assigned 
 to him and was serious and 
 punctual in his work. 
 
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 RIPPLE, EDWARD C, Jr. 101854 
 
 Private Company I 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry, July 
 28, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 27-A, Map 
 of Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. 
 Ripple, Sr., Plattsmouth, Neb. 
 
 Private Ripple wdLS killed by 
 artillery fire in the battle for 
 Hill 212. He had served with 
 the regiment in Lorraine. 
 
 He was possessed of a quiet and 
 pleasant disposition and as a 
 soldier was thorough in all his 
 work. 
 
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 GRASSHOFF, HENRY 102530 
 
 Corporal Company M 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 Sergy, July 28, 1918. 
 Buried in Grave No. 21-K, Map 
 of Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. J, H. 
 Grasshoflf, Aurelia, Iowa. 
 
 GrasshofI was made a corporal 
 soon after the regiment went 
 into the trenches in the Lor- 
 raine Sector. He showed much 
 ability as a leader and led his 
 squad like a true soldier through 
 the various bombardments and 
 engagements in Lorraine and 
 Champagne. At Chateau 
 
 Thierry in the attack on Hill 
 212, he was killed while leading 
 his squad. 
 
 
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 Corporal Company M. 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry, July 
 28, 1918. 
 
 Grave No. 21-E, Map of Fere- 
 en-Tardinois. 
 
 Son of Jennie Stephenson, 
 North Branch, Michigan. 
 Corporal Stephenson was killed 
 in the drive on the Chateau 
 Thierry salient near Sergy while 
 attempting to capture a machine 
 gun nest. 
 
 He made an excellent record in 
 the Lorraine Sector and also 
 during the Champagne defen- 
 sive. 
 
 Born at Red Oak, Iowa, Septem- 
 ber 12, 1895. 
 
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 CAMPBELL, MARION 
 
 Private Company M 
 
 Killed in the drive near Sergy, 
 July 28, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mr, and Mrs. E. E. 
 Campbell, Grant, Iowa. 
 
 Private Campbell was killed in 
 the attack on Hill 212 
 
 He gave up his studies in High 
 School with no other thought 
 than that it was his duty to do 
 so and enlisted in the 168th In- 
 fantry. He had served with the 
 regiment in Lorraine and at 
 Champagne. 
 
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 BEATTY, HENRY R. 
 
 Corporal Company I 
 
 Corporal Beatty was wounded 
 and gassed July 28, 1918 at 
 Chateau Thierry. 
 
 Corporal Beatty made a hard 
 fight for his life, but died on 
 February 11, 1919. A good and 
 faithful soldier. 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. Hallie 
 Beatty, Lincoln, Arkansas. 
 
 Corporal Company K 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Nellie Norris, 
 Gravity, Iowa. 
 
 Corporal Norris was hit in both 
 legs by high explosives and 
 killed while advancing with his 
 squad in the attack on Hill 212. 
 
 Norris was a fearless leader and 
 had the trust of all who knew 
 him. 
 
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 COFFIN, PAUL R. 
 
 Private Company H 
 Private Coflfin was instantly 
 killed when a shell lit in a group 
 of men of Company H and they 
 never knew what hit them. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Cof- 
 fin, New Sharon, Iowa. 
 
 The duties of Private Coffin 
 were those of a runner and as 
 such the most exposed and dan- 
 gerous of all. Coffin displayed 
 not only the utmost disregard 
 for self, bravery and self sacri- 
 fice, but displayed unusual in- 
 telligence. He was considered 
 the best runner in the battalion 
 of which he was a member. 
 Private Coffin was loved and ad- 
 mired by all his comrades, and 
 his loss was felt by all. 
 
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 CUSHMAN, CLYDE M. 102355 
 Private Company L 
 Killed at Sergy in the Chateau 
 Thierry saUent, July 28, 1918. 
 Buried in Grave No. 26, Map of 
 Fere-en-Tardinois . 
 Private Cushman was killed by 
 machine gun fire during the at- 
 tack on Hill 212. 
 
 He was a company runner and 
 brave at all times. Private 
 Cushman survived the shower 
 of shells at Champagne but in 
 the performance of his duty at 
 Sergy, he was swept under by 
 the withering machine gun fire 
 which he courageously dared to 
 traverse. 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. Bertha 
 Degenhart, Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
 
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 Private Company L 
 
 Killed at Sergy, July 28, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 21-A, Fere- 
 
 en-Tardinois. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs, W. E. 
 Pierce, Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
 Born at Monmouth, Illinois, 
 December 7, 1898. 
 
 Private Pierce was killed by 
 machine gun tire in the attack 
 on Hill 212. He lost his Ufe by 
 courageously advancing through 
 the hottest of machine gun fire 
 at Hill 212. Without a whimper 
 he fell out of our lines and 
 joined the ranks of our glorified 
 heroes. 
 
 Private Pierce was upright and 
 unassuming and well liked by 
 all his comrades. 
 
 EUTENEUR, JOHN A. 302440 
 
 Private Company L 
 
 Killed at Sergy in the Chateau 
 Thierry salient, July 28, 1918. 
 Buried in Grave No. 25-A, Map 
 of Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 
 Private Euteneur was killed by 
 machine gun fire during the at- 
 tack on Hill 212. 
 
 Son of Mrs. EUza Euteneur, 
 Albany, Alabama. 
 
 He was upright, quiet, unassum- 
 ing, yet never failing to do his 
 duty. 
 
 Private Euteneur had not been 
 with the organization long, but 
 it had not taken long to estab- 
 lish a reputation as a fearless 
 soldier. 
 
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 Private Company L 
 KiUed July 28, 1918 at Sergy. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 25-C, Map 
 of Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Walford 
 Tudor, Edenton, Kentucky. 
 
 Private Tudor was killed by 
 machine gun fire in the attack| 
 on HiU 212. He stayed right 
 with his platoon leader all dur- 
 ing the advance and braved the 
 shower of machine gun bullets 
 as bravely and cheerfully as 
 anyone could wish. 
 
 Tudor was a clean fellow, 
 always performing his duties 
 and molesting no one. 
 
 JARVIS, CARL H. 
 
 Private Company 1 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry sali- 
 ent, July 28, 1918. 
 
 Buried at Jouy Sur Marne, Sem 
 et Marne. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Jar- 
 vis, Burlington, Iowa. 
 
 Private Jarvis was wounded in 
 the fight for Hill 212 and died 
 the same day. 
 
 He had served with the Second 
 Infantry on the Mexican Bor- 
 der. 
 
 Born at Muscatine, Iowa, June 
 18, 1895. 
 
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 CREATON, LEROY B. 
 
 Second Lieutenant Company H 
 
 Killed July 28, 1918 at Hill 212 
 along the Ourcq river. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 39, Map of 
 Fere-en-Tardinois near La Croix 
 Blance Farm, one-half kilomet- 
 ers south of Sergy. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Crea- 
 ton, Austin, Texas. 
 
 Lieutenant Creaton was a man 
 of extraordinary personality. 
 He v»ras loved and respected by 
 all his men to the extent that 
 they w^ould follow him anywhere. 
 It was while successfully lead- 
 ing his section in the capture of 
 Hill 212 that he was mortally 
 wounded by a high explosive 
 shell. 
 
 WIEDER, WILLIAM F. 
 
 102324 
 
 Private Company L 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 Sergy, July 28, 1918. 
 Buried in Grave No. 21-1, Map 
 of Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 Private Wieder was killed in 
 action by machine gun fire in 
 the attack on Hill 212. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. 
 Wieder, Keokuk, Iowa. 
 Born February 4, 1898. 
 
 In all the trials and storms of 
 the regiment he proved himsell 
 a man who was faithful to duty 
 and considerate to his comrades. 
 In the most severe test to which 
 he was put he never faltered but 
 continued to advance as long as 
 life lasted. 
 
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 JESPERSON, DAVID E. 84766 
 
 Private Company I 
 
 Killed July 29, 1918 at Chateau 
 
 Thierry. 
 
 In the battle for Hill 212 Private 
 Jesperson showed great bravery 
 throughout the engagement. He 
 advanced on the enemy firing 
 shot after shot until a machine 
 gun bullet struck him. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesper Jes- 
 person, Ogden, Utah. 
 
 Private Jesperson was well 
 thought of by his many friends 
 in the company and they all ad- 
 mired him for the way he carried 
 himself in battle. 
 
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 Private Company I 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry, July 
 29, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 21-B, Map 
 of Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 
 Private Walsh was nineteen 
 years of age, and though one of 
 the youngest, he was fearless and 
 one of the best soldiers in the 
 company. He had a congenial 
 disposition and was well liked by 
 all. 
 
 He was a member of the Battal- 
 ion Scouts and his duties were 
 well executed. He was killed by 
 machine gun fire in the fight for 
 Hill 212. 
 
 Relative's address, 174 West 
 Sixty-fifth Street, New York City. 
 
 
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 MUNDAY, LEONIDUS S. 
 
 Private Company M 
 
 Killed near Hill 212, July 29, 
 1919. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Mun- 
 day, Holden, Missouri. 
 
 Private Munday was killed by 
 machine gun fire while rushing 
 up Hill 212. 
 
 He was with the regiment in 
 Lorraine and went through the 
 terrific bombardment in the 
 Champagne Front. While in 
 Lorraine and at Champagne he 
 made a good and enviable record 
 as a soldier and one to be de- 
 pended upon. 
 
 SHAFFER, HAROLD 102479 
 
 Corporal Company M 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry, July 
 29, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 13-B, Map 
 of Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Shaf- 
 fer, Storm Lake, Iowa. 
 Corporal Shafi'er was very quiet, 
 nevertheless his squad was one 
 of the best in the company. 
 Through the months of trench 
 fighting in the Lorraine Sector, 
 he had handled his squad like a 
 veteran against machine gun 
 bullets and shell fire. At the 
 Champagne Front he made a 
 good record and at Chateau 
 Thierry he was a leader to the 
 last. He was killed by a sniper's 
 bullet just as the company was 
 being relieved. 
 
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VAN VEEN, JOHN 
 
 101731 
 
 Private Company H 
 
 Died at Field Hospital No. 166, 
 July 29, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Nellie Van Veen, 
 Pella, Iowa. 
 
 Private Van Veen was wounded 
 during the advance on the Ourcq 
 river on July 28, 1918 and died 
 on the following day. 
 
 Born January 14, 1896. 
 
 HAXTON, LESLIE 10002 
 
 Corporal Company A 
 
 Died in Hospital No. 166 on July 
 29, 1918. 
 
 Buried in the Cemetery of Hos- 
 pital No. 166. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs, A. L. Hax- 
 ton, Britt, Iowa. 
 
 Corporal Haxton was fatally 
 wounded July 26th at Chateauf 
 Thierry near the Croix Rouge' 
 Farm as his platoon was advanc- 
 ing. He was taken to Hospital 
 No. 166 and died there on July 
 29th, 
 
 He did patrol work in the Lor- 
 raine and Scout duty on other 
 fronts and proved to be an ex- 
 ceptionally good man. 
 
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 First Lieutenant Company I 
 Died in Evacuation Hospital No. 
 7 July 29, 1918. 
 
 Lieutenant Noble was wounded 
 on July 28, 1918 on Hill 212 near 
 Sergy, and died in the hospital. 
 He was buried at Chateau 
 Montanglaust near Coulom- 
 miers, France, S. M., American 
 Graveyard, Grave No. 156. 
 Lieutenant Noble was cited for 
 gallantry in action July 15, 1918 
 near Suippes, France by the Di- 
 vision Commander for going out 
 repeatedly under terrific enemy 
 bombardment and bringing in 
 the wounded men of his platoon. 
 Lieutenant Noble was loved and 
 respected by all his men. 
 Relative's address, Miss Marian 
 Noble, 522 Seventeenth Street, 
 Brooklyn, New York. 
 
 WINTER, ORVILLE C. 101061 
 
 Sergeant Company F 
 Died in hospital on July 29, 1918 
 from wounds received at Cha- 
 teau Thierry on July 26th. 
 Son of Mrs. Ella Winter, Vil- 
 lisca, Iowa. 
 
 The first and second platoons 
 were ahead of the Headquarters 
 section and they were mixed up 
 when the orders came for them 
 to go over the top. Winter im- 
 mediately saw that a leader was'* 
 needed and he started forward 
 on a run through the German 
 barrage to help form them. He 
 was badly wounded both from a 
 high explosive shell and machine 
 gun bullets but was cheerful 
 until his death, claiming that he 
 was not hurt badly. 
 Sergeant Winter was clean in 
 body, mind and soul. 
 
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 CARSON, FRANK E. 100475 
 
 Private Company C 
 
 Died July 29, 1918 in Hospital. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles 
 Carson, Orient, Iowa. 
 
 Private Carson was advancing 
 with his platoon to the attack 
 near Sergy when he was hit by 
 a piece of high explosive shell.'i 
 
 He was carried to a field hospi- 
 tal where he died later. 
 
 Private Carson had been ill in 
 the hospital from February 
 until June. 
 
 Born at Monmouth, Illinois, 
 June 24, 1893. 
 
 BAKER, GEORGE H. 100461 
 
 Private First Class Company C 
 
 Died July 29, 1918 in Field Hos- 
 pital. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Baker, 
 Creston, Iowa. 
 
 Private Baker was with his com- 
 pany attacking towards Sergy 
 when a high explosive shell hit 
 him in the right hip. He was 
 carried off the field to the aid 
 station, given treatment and 
 then sent to a field hospital 
 where he died later. 
 
 He had served with the regiment 
 in Lorraine and Champagne. 
 
 
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 MATHIS, FLOYD H. 100281 
 
 Private Company B 
 
 Killed July 29, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry near Sergy. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 9-B, Map of 
 Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Cora Abraham, 
 Ankeny, Iowa. 
 
 Private Mathis was serving at 
 the kitchen during the Sergy ac- 
 tion and was instantly killed by 
 shrapnel while sleeping in the 
 ration cart. This was in a re- 
 serve position and the two men 
 sleeping under the cart were not 
 injured and did not know of the 
 death of their comrade until the 
 /next morning. 
 
 BEASLEY, WILLIAM 1568250 
 
 Private Company A 
 Killed July 29, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry Front. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 42-B, Map 
 of Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 Son of Mrs. Elizabeth Beasley, 
 Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 Private Beasley joined Company 
 A while they were engaged in 
 preparing that wonderful de- 
 fense which later proved to be 
 an indestructible obstacle in 
 the Huns' final mad attempt to 
 break the allies' line at Cham- 
 pagne. On July 15, 1918 Pri- 
 vate Beasley played a heroic 
 part in that victory, which will 
 be carved on the pages of his- 
 tory as one of the decisive vic- 
 tories of the world. 
 
 
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 COLLINS, EMMETT E. 99699 
 
 Sergeant Machine Gnn Company 
 Severely wounded July 29, 1918 
 near the Ourcq river on the 
 Chateau Thierry Front. 
 Buried about 700 yards north- 
 west of old mill along banks of 
 Ourcq river near Sergy. 
 Son of Mrs. Fanny Collins, Des 
 Moines, Iowa. 
 
 Sergeant ColUns was wounded 
 in the arm and after having It 
 dressed, was ordered back. He 
 started and had gone about ten 
 yards when a shell hit on the 
 ridge. A fragment penetrated 
 his chest, killing him instantly. 
 Sergeant Collins had been rec- 
 ommended for a D. S. C. for his 
 gallantry in action. 
 
 BAIRD, MELVIN D. 99772 
 
 Private Machine Gun Company 
 
 Killed July 29, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
 Private Baird was advancing on 
 Hill 212 when he was wounded 
 in the leg by high explosive shell 
 and died shortly after his arrival 
 at Evacuation Hospital. He had 
 served with the regiment at Lor- 
 raine, Champagne and the 
 earlier part of Chateau Thierry. 
 
 Relative's address, Harry Goldia, 
 Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 
 
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 TURNBULL, HOWARD W. 100916 
 
 Private First Class Company E 
 
 Missing since July 29, 1918 at 
 Chateau Thierry near Sergy. 
 
 Private TurnbuU was one of the 
 original Company E boys and 
 had seen action during the Lor- 
 raine campaign) and the Battle 
 of Champagne. On the night of 
 July 28th he was chosen as one 
 of Corporal Flower's patrol, the 
 first to enter Sergy. He never 
 returned and his fate is problem- 
 tical. 
 
 TurnbuU was one of the com- 
 pany's best soldiers and had a 
 high sense of duty. 
 
 Relative's address, Farragut, 
 
 HARTSHORN, CHAS. E. 100971 
 
 Private First Class Company E 
 
 Killed July 29, 1918 on Hill 212, 
 northeast of Sergy. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Mary Hartshorn, 
 Great Divide, Colorado. 
 
 Private Hartshorn was an orig- 
 inal Shenandoah man, who 
 served throughout the Lorraine 
 campaign and the Battle of 
 Champagne. He was especially 
 known for his ability as an auto- 
 matic gunner and was a high 
 type soldier. 
 
 Born May 18, 1896. 
 
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 DIXON, PAUL R. 
 
 Corporal Company D 
 
 Killed July 29, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. 
 Dixon, Mystic, Iowa. 
 
 Graduate of Centerville High. A 
 fine upright young man. With 
 a smile for everyone. 
 
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 BURGESS, ALVA M. 100636 
 
 Private Company D 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry July 
 29, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 72-C, Map 
 of Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Bur- 
 gess, Centerville, Iowa. 
 
 Private Burgess was advancing 
 with his company towards Sergy 
 when he was wounded by a frag- 
 ment of high explosive shell. He 
 crawled into a shell hole and 
 while waiting to be taken to the 
 dressing station another shell 
 exploded near him killing him 
 almost instantly. He was an 
 automatic riflemen and had made 
 a good record as a soldier. Born 
 at Centerville, Iowa, December 
 17, 1894. 
 
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 FRIST, VICTOR 101128 
 
 Private First Class, Company F 
 
 Died in the hospital July 30th. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Rose Frist, Villisca, 
 Iowa. 
 
 Private Frist was severely 
 wounded in the face at Chateau 
 Thierry near the Croix Rouge 
 farm. He died in the hospital on 
 July 30th from wounds received 
 on July 26th, 
 
 He was a hard worker and a 
 faithful soldier. 
 
 
 KECK, LEO R. 100386 
 
 Corporal Company C 
 
 Killed July 30th at Chateau 
 Thierry near Hill 212 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Phil Keck, 
 Creston, Iowa. 
 
 Corporal Keck was in a shell 
 hole on the side of Hill 212. A 
 machine gun bullet glanced oflF a 
 comrade's helmet and hit him in 
 the forehead, killing him instant- 
 
 ly. 
 
 He had served with the regiment 
 in Lorraine and Champagne. 
 
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 PORTER, DONALD E. 
 
 100436 
 
 Corporal Company L 
 
 Killed July 30, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry, near the Ourcq river. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. 
 tcr, Creston, Iowa. 
 
 C. E. Por- 
 
 Corporal Porter was with his 
 company, attacking toward Nes- 
 les on Hill 212 near Sergy. He 
 had been wounded by a machine 
 gun bullet, when a high explo- 
 sive shell exploded killing him 
 instantly. 
 
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 SWAN, WILLIAM H. 100367 
 
 Corporal Company C 
 
 Killed near Hill 212, July 30th. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 44-C, Map 
 of Fere-en-Tardinois at the north 
 edge of Sergy. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. 
 Swan, Creston, Iowa. 
 
 While advancing with his pla- 
 toon toward Hill 212, a machine 
 gun bullet pierced his chest and 
 he died in a few moments. 
 
 Corporal Swan had served with 
 the regiment at Lorraine and at 
 Champagne. 
 
 Born March 16, 1884 near Cres- 
 ton, Iowa. 
 
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HARBRECHT, EUGENE 302495 
 
 Private First Class Company C 
 
 KiUed July 30th at Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Lottie Harbrecht, 
 Milwaukee, Wis. 
 
 Private Harbrecht was advanc- 
 ing up Hill 212 with his platoon. 
 The advance was halted for a 
 moment and he was in a shell 
 hole temporarily. Private Har- 
 brecht was hit by a machine gun 
 bullet and killed instantly. He 
 had served with the regiment in 
 Lorraine and was in the engage- 
 ment at Champagne on July 
 15th. 
 
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 HURLBERT, EDDY 
 
 100424 
 
 Private First Class, Company C 
 
 Killed near Sergy July 30th. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Hurl- 
 bert, Creston, Iowa. 
 
 Private Hurlbert was with Com- 
 pany C when they were advanc- 
 ing toward Sergy. They were 
 advancing in skirmish line. He 
 was hit in the legs by machine 
 gun bullets and both legs were 
 broken. While lying waiting for 
 the stretcher bearers to take 
 him to the aid station, he was 
 killed by a bursting shrapnel 
 shell. He was cheerful to the 
 last, asked for and was given a 
 drink of water just before he 
 died. 
 
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GITZY, LAVERNE B. 100418 
 
 Private Company C 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry, July 
 30th. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 46-C, Map 
 of Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Gitzy, 
 Orient, Iowa. 
 
 Private Gitzy was sitting on the 
 edge of a creek at the foot of 
 Hill 212, when a high explosive 
 shell burst over him, a fragment 
 hitting him in the chest and kill- 
 ing him instantly. 
 He had been talking about some- 
 one who had been killed when 
 the shell burst over him, he 
 said, "And they have got me too." 
 Private Gitzy had served with 
 the regiment in Lorraine and in 
 the Champagne. 
 
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 BERKOFF, MYER 1723360 
 
 Private Company B 
 
 Killed July 30th at Sergy. 
 
 While advancing in Sergy, Pri- 
 vate Berkoff was killed by a 
 high explosive shell. 
 
 He had served with the regiment 
 in Lorraine and Champagne. 
 
 
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 MEE, JOHN 81877 
 
 Private Company B 
 
 Killed July 30th, at Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 44-E, Map 
 of Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Eliza Mee, Ana- 
 ' conda, Mont. 
 
 Private Mee was killed by a ma- 
 chine gun bullet while crossing 
 the Ourcq near Sergy. 
 
 He enUsted October 7, 1917 and 
 was with the regiment in Lor- 
 raine and Champagne. 
 
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 SHEARER, OMAR B. 99846 
 
 Private Machine Gun Company 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 Sergy, July 30, 1918. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 41-B, Map 
 of Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Anna Shearer, 
 Guthrie Center, Iowa. 
 
 Private Shearer was killed while |, 
 carrying ammunition to the men |>, 
 at the front. 
 
 A shell hit near him and killed 
 him instantly. 
 
 He had served with the company 
 in their previous engagements. 
 
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 HOPP, HENRY E. 99881 
 
 Corporal Company A 
 
 Killed at Sergy July 30, 1918. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 43-B, Fere- 
 en-Tardinois. 
 
 Corporal Hopp had been 
 wounded twice, but continued to 
 advance until a high explosive 
 landed at his feet, killing him in- 
 stantly. 
 
 He was a good drill master and a 
 loyal comrade. 
 
 Corporal Hopp was fearless even 
 to the point of recklessness, and 
 could always be depended on to 
 carry out any duty, no matter 
 how dangerous. 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. J. 
 Brucking, Mason City, Iowa. 
 
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 GRUBE, CHARLES C. 99880 
 
 Sergeant Company A 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry, July 
 30, 1918. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 15, Conde- 
 en-brie. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Mary Grube, Du- 
 buque, Iowa. 
 
 Sergeant Grube proved himself 
 a worthy and courageous soldier 
 and an able assistant to his 
 platoon chief. While in the Ba- 
 donvilUer Sector he was for a 
 time attached to the First Bat- 
 talion Raiders, where he many 
 times led raids, night patrols 
 and proved himself an able, ag- 
 gressive fighter. 
 His death was a shock to his 
 comrades, for at all times he was 
 a daring and valuable soldier. 
 
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 SHURTZ, CLARENCE V. 99870 
 Corporal Company A 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry, July 
 30, 1918. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 36-A, Fere- 
 en-Tardinois. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry 
 Shurtz, Eagle Grove, Iowa. 
 Corporal Shurtz was attached 
 to the Intelligence department, 
 and did excellent work for them 
 in the Baccarat Sector. His 
 duties required of him the ut- 
 most daring, but they were al- 
 ways faithfully carried out. 
 At the capture of Sergy on July 
 30th, he was struck by shell 
 fragments which tore one of his 
 limbs from his body and he died 
 shortly afterwards. 
 
 KELLY, JOHN M. 100016 
 
 Corporal Company A 
 
 Killed at Sergy, July 30, 1918. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 43-D, Ferc- 
 en-Tardinois. 
 
 On the morning of July 30th, 
 while attempting to capture a 
 machine gun nest above Sergy, 
 one of his men was severely 
 wounded and while helping to 
 bandage his comrade he was in- 
 stantly killed by a machine gun 
 bullet. 
 
 It is the courage and sacrifice of 
 such men that made victory pos- 
 sible. 
 
 Relative's address, John Pearl, 
 Weldon, Iowa. 
 
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 HIATT, CLELL 100055 
 
 Private Company A 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 Sergy, July 30, 1918. 
 Buried in grave No. 43-C, Map 
 of Conde-en-brie. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Hiatt, 
 East Peru, Iowa. 
 Private Hiatt showed such abil- 
 ity and eagerness for combat, 
 that he was assigned to the raid- 
 ers, whose work was pulling 
 night raids on the Huns, going 
 over into their trenches and se- 
 curing information as to their 
 plans and positions. Here he 
 displayed great courage and in- 
 genuity. With the raiders, while 
 fighting their way through Sergy 
 ahead of the First Battalion, he 
 was instantly killed by shrapnel. 
 
 GUDELL, BERNARD A. 
 
 302460 
 
 Private Company A 
 Killed July 30th at Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 45-A, Map 
 of Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 Night patrols and raiding were 
 the delight of Private Gudell and 
 the occasion was rare when one 
 of these patrols sallied forth 
 without him. Private Gudell was 
 shot through the head by a ma- 
 chine gun bullet dying almost 
 instantly on that memorable 
 morning of July 30th, when his 
 company so honorably distin- 
 guished themselves. A boy, a 
 man, a soldier, beloved and rev- 
 erenced by all — his loss was 
 keenly felt. Relative's address 
 Clara Pfeifer, Wauwatosa, Wis. 
 
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 HAUT, EDWARD 2104314 
 
 Private Machine Gun Company 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry, July 
 30th. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 41-C, Fere- 
 en-Tardinois. 
 
 Son of Mrs. May Haut, Daven- 
 port, Iowa. 
 
 Private Haut was killed instant- 
 ly by a high explosive shell, 
 which exploded near him while 
 he was carrying ammunition to 
 his comrades in the front lines. 
 This was his first battle. 
 
 
 O'BRIEN, FRANK M. 2104348 
 
 Private Machine Gun Company 
 
 Killed July 30th at Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 41-A, Map 
 of Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. D. W. 
 South Fargo, North/ 
 
 O'Brien, 
 Dakota. 
 
 Private O'Brien was instantly 
 killed by the same shell which 
 killed Private Haut and Shearer 
 and was carrying ammunition to 
 the men in the front line. 
 
 This was his first battle. 
 
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 WAY, THOMAS D. 100799 
 
 Corporal Company D 
 KUled at Chateau Thierry, July 
 30th. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 46-A, Fere- 
 en-Tardinois. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Mary Way, Exline, 
 Iowa. 
 
 Corporal Way made an excel- 
 lent record as a soldier while in 
 the trenches in the Lorraine sec- 
 tor and at Champagne. On the 
 Chateau Thierry Front near Ser- 
 gy, his company was getting 
 ready to attack and while he was 
 leading his squad to its proper 
 place in the formation he was 
 struck by a rifle bullet and died 
 instantly. 
 
 MARKS, ARTHUR J. 302521 
 
 Private Company C 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 Hill 212, July 30th. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 44-D, Map 
 of Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C, 
 Marks, Smithport, Pa. 
 
 Private Marks was advancing 
 with his company to attack Hill 
 212 near Sergy and was hit sev- 
 eral times by machine gun bul- 
 lets, killing him instantly. 
 
 He had served with the regiment 
 in the Lorraine and Champagne 
 sectors. 
 
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KEECH, FRANK W. 302558 
 
 Private Company M 
 
 KUlcd July 30, 1918, at Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
 Buried in grave No, 68, Map of 
 Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs, E. D. 
 Keech, Otsego, Mich. 
 
 GOURLEY, JOSEPH W. 246050 
 
 Private Company D 
 
 Killed at Sergy, July 30, 1918. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 42-A, Map 
 of Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Mary T. Gourley, 
 Chuckey, Tenn. 
 
 Private Gourley was killed by a 
 piece of high explosive shell, 
 while guiding the company to 
 the point from which they were 
 to advance He was a company 
 runner and had a splendid rec- 
 ord as a soldier. 
 
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 Private Company I 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry, July 
 30, 1918. 
 
 Buried in grave No, 6-G, Fere- 
 en-Tardinois. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Burks, Malvern, Iowa. 
 
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 Private Burks was an orderly at 
 Battalion headquarters, and 
 when the call came to go on a 
 dangerous errand, he was among 
 the first to respond. He volun- 
 teered to carry a message to the 
 town of Sergy during the drive 
 at Chateau Thierry and while 
 passing through an orchard at 
 the top of Hill 212, he was killed 
 instantly by a German sniper. 
 
 CUNNINGHAM, CHARLES C. 
 
 101890 Private Company I 
 
 Died July 30th at Evacuation 
 Hospital, No, 31. 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. W, R. 
 HoUenbeck, Dyersville, Iowa. 
 
 Private Cunningham acted as a 
 litter bearer in the Chateau 
 Thierry drive. He worked tire- 
 lessly for three days carrying his 
 wounded comrades to the dress- 
 ing station, usually under heavy 
 artillery fire. He never failed to 
 do all in his power for the bene- 
 fit of his comrades and was a 
 friend to all who knew him. On 
 the fourth day of the drive he 
 was seriously wounded and tak- 
 en to the hospital, where he died 
 the same day. 
 
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 LIEN, ALBERT 100902 
 
 Private Company E 
 
 Died in Field Hospital No. 117, 
 July 30, 1918. 
 
 Born May 28, 1895. 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. J. C. 
 Pollitt, Rapid City, South Da- 
 kota. 
 
 Private Lien was seriously 
 wounded at Foret de Fere, near 
 Chateau Thierry on July 26th. 
 He was a good, true soldier and 
 a willing worker. 
 
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 DARLING, LESLIE W. 100884 
 
 Private First Class Company E 
 
 Died in Field Hospital No. 117, 
 July 30th, 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Darl- 
 ing, Ogden, Iowa. Born at Chi- 
 cago, 111., August 23, 1895. 
 
 Private Darling was severely 
 wounded at Foret de Fere, near 
 Chateau Thierry, July 26th. 
 
 He was a good soldier and a 
 clean cut man. His death was 
 deeply felt by his many com- 
 rades. 
 
 Private Darling had taken the 
 civil service examination for rail- 
 road clerk and was called for a 
 position shortly after he had en- 
 listed. 
 
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 MALONEY, WILLIAM 101379 
 
 Private Company G 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry, July 
 30th. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 19-A, Map 
 of Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. 
 Maloney, Ottumwa, Iowa. 
 
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 WAECHTER, LLOYD V. 99905 
 
 Private Company A 
 
 Died in Base Hospital No. 36, 
 July 31st. 
 
 Buried in cemetery at Base Hos- 
 pital No. 36. 
 
 Son of Lillie E. Waechter, East 
 Peru, Iowa. 
 
 ■ Private Waechter was gassed 
 during the Chateau Thierry 
 drive on July 25th. 
 
 During the trying periods at 
 Lorraine, Private Waechter did 
 excellent work, always putting 
 his duty before his own personal 
 comfort and safety. On the 
 Champagne Front, he acted as a 
 runner through the intense bom- 
 bardment for several days. 
 
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 ROGERS, NED H. 99934 
 
 Private Company A 
 Killed July 31st at Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 43-A, Fere- 
 en-Tardinois. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Rog- 
 ers, Winterset, Iowa. 
 
 Being a lad to whom excitement 
 appealed and having a notice- 
 able contempt for danger, he 
 joined the Battalion Scouts that 
 took control of No-Man's-Land 
 in Lorraine Sector. At Cham- 
 pagne his services were of great 
 value. Day after day at Chateau 
 Thierry he scouted out every 
 machine gun emplacement and 
 afterward offered himself as a 
 target to draw their fire and de- 
 termine their location. 
 
 OLSON, WILLIAM 101385 
 
 Private Company G 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry, July 
 30th. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 19-D, Map 
 of Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Son of Mr. -and Mrs. Chas. Ol- 
 son, Fort Dodge, Iowa. 
 
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 PETERKA, JOHN 
 
 Corporal Company D 
 
 Killed July 31st at Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Barbara Peterka, 
 Sauk Center, Minn. 
 
 
 
 LARONT, CHARLES W. 100518 
 
 Private First Class, Company C 
 
 Killed July 31st, near Sergy. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 13-A, Fere- 
 en-Tardinois. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. La- 
 Ront, Camp Point, 111. 
 
 Company C was in reserve, en- 
 trenched in a ditch, when Pri- 
 vate LaRont was struck by a 
 high explosive, which nearly 
 blew off one leg. He was placed 
 on a stretcher and started to the 
 aid station, but begged to be let 
 down and die in peace. 
 
 He also told his comrades to tell 
 his mother goodbye. He died 
 from loss of blood. 
 
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 EICHELSDORFER, JOSEPH 
 
 246942 Private Company B 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry near 
 Sergy, July 31st. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 49-B, Map 
 of Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 
 Son of 
 Erie, Pa. 
 
 Killian Eichelsdorfer, 
 
 Private Eichelsdorfer was killed 
 by a machine gun bullet, while 
 crossing the Ourcq near Sergy. 
 He had served with the regiment 
 in Lorraine and Champagne. 
 
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 LANNEN, GEORGE E. 24669 
 
 Private Company M 
 
 Son of Mrs. Angaline L. Lannen, 
 Johnston, Pa. 
 
 Killed July 31st in the drive on 
 the Chateau Thierry salient. 
 Buried in grave No. 47-B, Map 
 of Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 
 So many were killed in this ad- 
 vance it was impossible to keep 
 good records, so we have not all 
 the facts. 
 
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 STOCK, GEORGE E. 
 
 2105579 
 
 Private Company L 
 
 Wounded July 28th and died in 
 Base Hospital No. 34. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. 
 Stock, Aredalc, Iowa. 
 
 Private Stock was wounded injf « 
 action by machine gun fire in 
 the attack on Hill 212. 
 
 He was a man of iron nerve, and \\1\, 
 was upright and honest in all 
 friendly relations and diligent in 
 the pursuit of the enemy. 
 
 DYVAD, CARL C. 102497 
 
 Corporal Company M 
 
 Killed July 31st at the edge ol 
 Sergy. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Nels H. 
 Dyvad, Albert City, Iowa. 
 
 While leading his squad in the 
 drive at Chateau Thierry, Cor- 
 poral Dyvad was killed by a ma- 
 chine gun bullet. He died as a 
 good soldier should with his face 
 to the front, fighting for his 
 country. 
 
 Corporal Dyvad was with the 
 regiment in the Lorraine Sector 
 and at Champagne, where he did 
 excellent work, showing ability 
 as a leader. 
 
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NYE, CHARLES L. 
 
 101627 
 
 Private Company H 
 
 Killed July 31, 1918 on Hill 212 
 on the Ourcq river. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 45-D, Fcrc- 
 en-Tardinois. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. 
 Nye, Seymour, Iowa. 
 
 Private Nye was killed by a ma- 
 chine gun bullet, while taking a 
 message from one platoon to 
 another on Hill 212 during the 
 Battle of the Ourcq river. 
 
 REMONDET, HERBERT J. 
 
 1596787 Private Company K 
 
 Killed at Chateau Thierry July 
 31, 1918. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 11, Map of 
 Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 
 Private Rcmondet was on guard 
 at the town of Sergy, when he 
 was hit by a fragment of high 
 explosive shell and killed in- 
 stantly. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. H 
 Remondet. 
 
 Born at New Orleans, April 27th 
 1893. 
 
 Educated in Natchez, Miss. 
 
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 WOODIN, ORVILLE 100136 
 
 Corporal Company B 
 
 Missing July 31, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. Fran- 
 cis Fisher, Cantril, Iowa, 
 
 Corporal Woodin disappeared in 
 the action near Sergy on July 
 30th. He had gone back with a 
 message to bring up rations, and 
 was last seen by Sergeant Marsh 
 southwest of Sergy. 
 
 He enlisted May 23, 1917 and 
 served the company as a highly 
 eflacient clerk all through their 
 service in the A. E. F. 
 
 WAGNER, DENZEL M. 
 
 101533 
 
 Private Company H 
 
 Killed July 31, 1918 on HiU 212. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Wag- 
 ner, Mankato, Minn. / 
 
 Private Wagner was killed on' 
 Hill 212 during the most severe 
 fighting, when every effort on 
 the part of the men counted 
 more than ever before. 
 
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 MILLER, CHAS, 101014 
 
 Private Company C 
 Buried August 1st. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Mil- 
 ler, Blanchard, Iowa. 
 
 Private Miller served two 
 months with the Battalion Intel- 
 ligence Platoon, where he did ex- 
 cellent work. He was in first pa- 
 trol that entered the town of Scr- 
 gy ; afterwards going into the 
 town alone as a runner. 
 Bravery and courage were 
 among his excellent qualities. 
 He was as faithful and true a 
 soldier as ever entered the serv- 
 ice. His work was always 
 looked upon with pride by his 
 superior oflScers. 
 
 GREEN, DOUGLAS B. 
 
 First Lieutenant Company H 
 
 Died August 18, 1918, at Field 
 Hospital No. 165. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 6, Beau-St.- 
 Germain, Aisne. 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. Edward 
 D. Smith, Pottsville, Penn, 
 
 Lieutenant Green was mortally 
 wounded while leading his sec- 
 tion over the top in the final 
 dash on Sergy. Lieutenant 
 Green distinguished himself as 
 one of the coolest officers in the 
 regiment under shell fire. 
 
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 PRICHARD, CARLYLE 84407 
 
 Private Company H 
 
 Killed August 1, 1918 on Hill 212 
 along the Ourcq River. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 45-1, Map 
 of Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 
 Relative's address, Miss S. A. 
 Prichard, Carneyville, Wyo. 
 
 Private Prichard was killed by 
 flank fire of German machine 
 guns while advancing up HiU 
 212. 
 
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 SIELAFF, HILMER W. 99850 
 
 Private First Class Machine Gun 
 
 Company 
 
 Killed August 2,1918, at Chateau 
 Thierry, near Sergy. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl F. 
 Sielaff, Buckeye, Iowa. 
 
 Private Sielaff was killed while 
 advancing on the enemy with his 
 platoon. He was so severely 
 wounded that he died in the 
 Evacuation Hospital, shortly af- 
 ter his arrival there. 
 
 He had served in the Lor- 
 raine, Champagne and Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
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 MILLER, REILEY, 302223 
 
 Private Company G 
 
 Killed during the drive at 
 Chateau Thierry near Sergy. 
 
 Buried in Grave No, 50, Map of 
 Conde-en-brie. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. 
 Miller, Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
 
 I have been unable to find a wit- 
 ness of this boy's death so do 
 not have the facts. 
 
 ROSS, HAROLD W. 99694 
 
 Sergeant Machine Gun Company 
 
 Died August 2, 1918 from 
 wounds received July 30th. 
 
 Buried near Chateau Thierry. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Ross, 
 Des Moines, Iowa. 
 
 Sergeant Ross was severely 
 wounded by machine gun bullets 
 and pieces of high explosive 
 shells, so badly that he died soon 
 after his arrival at the Evacua- 
 tion Hospital, He was advanc- 
 ing on the enemy with his 
 platoon when he was hit. 
 
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 LIVINGSTON, JOHN R. 102162 
 
 Private Company K 
 
 Died August 3rd at Base Hospi- 
 tal No. 19, Vichy, France. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Liv- 
 ingston, Bedford, Iowa. 
 
 Private Livingston was hit by a 
 piece of high explosive shell 
 while in a hole he had dug for 
 his protection. 
 
 I had known Livingston for 
 several years and he had often 
 been in my church. He was a 
 splendid chap. 
 
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 COVERDALE, WESLEY E. 1568995 
 
 Private Company C 
 
 Killed August 3, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry near Sergy. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 3-B, Map 
 of Fere en Tardinois. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Mary E. Coverdale, 
 Noblesville, Ind. 
 
 Private Coverdale was instantly 
 killed by a high explosive shell. 
 He had served with the regiment 
 in the Lorraine and Champagne 
 Sectors. 
 
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WHITE, ROBERT H. 1556489 
 
 Private Company C 
 
 Killed August 3, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Larkin R. 
 White, Blackford, Ky. 
 
 / Private White was instantly 
 killed by a high explosive shell. 
 
 He was advancing with his 
 platoon up a small ravine when 
 he was hit. He had served with 
 the regiment in Champagne. 
 
 COX, FRED 1569596 
 
 Private Company H 
 
 Died August 3, 1918 at Field 
 Hospital No. 168. 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. Missouri 
 Cox, Princeton, Ind. 
 
 Private Cox died from wounds 
 received in action on July 28th 
 at the Base Hospital. He was 
 in the advance on the Ourcq 
 River. 
 
 Private Cox had seen two years' 
 service. 
 
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 Killed August 4, 1918 near Vesle 
 River during the Battle of Fis- 
 
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 CHOPP, IZADOR J. 100604 
 
 Corporal Company D 
 
 Died August 4, 1918 at Base 
 Hospital No. 19 at Vichy, France. 
 
 Corporal Chopp was wounded by 
 shrapnel on the 27th of July at 
 Chateau Thierry, near Sergy. He 
 was taken to the hospital where 
 he died several days later. 
 
 He was rated as one of the best 
 corporals in the company, and 
 was very popular with all the 
 men. 
 
 Relative's address. A, W. Bare- 
 tich, Brazil, Iowa. 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. Richard 
 E. Cook, U. S. General Hospital 
 No. 4, Fort Porter, New York. 
 
 Lieutenant Cook was killed while 
 r"i dressing his wounded men. || 
 
 He was awarded the French 
 Croix de Guerre, American Cita- 
 tion, silver star on the Victory 
 Medal Ribbon for gallantry in 
 action near the Vesle River for 
 dressing the wounded under 
 severe artillery and machine gun 
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 UFFORD, FOREST C. 
 
 100793 
 
 Private Company D 
 
 Died at Evacuation Hospital No. 
 4, August 4th, 
 
 Son of Mrs. Anna Ufford, Des 
 Moines, Iowa. 
 
 Private Ufford was wounded at 
 Chateau Thierry near Sergy and 
 was taken to the hospital where 
 he died the next day. He was 
 with the regiment in Lorraine, 
 Champagne and had a very envi- 
 able record as a good soldier. 
 
 FARMER, JOHN W. 84777 
 
 Private Headquarters Company 
 Killed August 6, 1918 at Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
 Son of Lillian Farmer, Essex, 
 England. 
 
 Private Farmer was killed while 
 working as a part of a burial 
 detail with Chaplain W. E. Robb. 
 They were working at night near 
 the town of Sergy to bury the 
 men and were very close to the 
 front line, when the German 
 artillery opened fire upon them. 
 The detail withdrew to a wheat 
 field and a stray shell hit near, 
 a fragment piercing his abdomen 
 and a fragment in his back. He 
 was given first aid, but died soon 
 after. 
 
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 BLAUL, FRANK 246776 
 
 Private Company B 
 Died August 6th in Mobile 
 Hospital No. 1. 
 
 Buried at Village of Chiery, 
 Chateau Thierry Front. 
 Son of Mrs. Mary Farley, Chi- 
 cago, 111. Born at Chicago, 111,, 
 October 7, 1894. 
 
 Private Blaul was hit by a piece 
 of high explosive shell while re- 
 turning from the Sergy action 
 and was taken to the hospital 
 where he died four days later. 
 Private Blaul refused medical 
 attention until the boy beside 
 him received first aid. 
 Private Blaul had served with 
 the regiment in the Lorraine and 
 Champagne Sectors, having been 
 transferred from the 11th Divi- 
 
 GILLEN, CARL E. 
 
 Sergeant Company G 
 
 Died August 14th at Red Cross 
 Military Hospital No. 5, 
 
 Buried at Suresness, France. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl A. 
 Gillen, Ottumwa, Iowa. 
 
 Sergeant Gillen was wounded 
 July 30th by machine gun fire,i 
 receiving wounds in the right'' 
 hand, right knee and left 
 shoulder. 
 
 Served on the Mexican Border 
 as a corporal. 
 
 Born January 10, 1898 at Ottum- 
 wa, Iowa and received his educa- 
 tion in that city. 
 
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 BRUCE, ELMER E. 102109 
 
 Private Company K 
 
 Died August 16, 1918 at St. 
 Aulde, France. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. — , thirty- 
 three feet east of southwest wall 
 of cemetery back of church. 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. Billy 
 Carson, Joplin, Missouri. 
 
 Private Bruce was accidentally 
 drowned while swimming in the 
 Marne river near St. Aulde, 
 France. He had served with the 
 regiment in Lorraine, Cham- 
 pagne and at Chateau Thierry. 
 
 
 
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 IRWIN, EMORY S. 
 
 First Lieutenant Company A 
 Wounded at Chateau Thierry 
 July 30th, died August 31st. 
 Lieutenant Irwin attended the 
 first training camp at Ft. Riley, 
 Kansas. He was ordered to the 
 Rainbow Division on August 29, 
 1917. After Captain Aikens was 
 gassed, he was placed in com- 
 mand of the company. He did 
 splendid work in Champagne 
 and highly distinguished himself 
 by his courage and heroic leader- 
 ship in crossing the Ourcq River 
 to the capture of Sergy and Hill 
 212. He was hit in the head by 
 machine gun bullets and was 
 taken to the hospital where he 
 died August 31st. 
 
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 YOUNG, HARLEY E. 
 
 Private Company A 
 
 Relative's address, Mr. Ralph 
 Hockmuth, 1710 Jackson Ave., 
 Des Moines, Iowa. 
 
 Private Young served without 
 injury until the Chateau Thierry 
 battle. During this advance he 
 was severely wounded and sent 
 to the hospital, where he lay for 
 many months. Almost eight 
 months from the time he was 
 wounded, he died of tumor on 
 February 4, 1919. 
 
 BARR, CHAUNCY W. 1568610 
 
 Private Company K 168th Infantry 
 
 Died on August 1, 1918. 
 
 Father's address, Michael Barr, 
 Edwardsport, Indiana. 
 
 While Company K was advanc- 
 ing toward the Ourcq river an 
 enemy shell lighted in the mids^ 
 of the column, killing three boys ; 
 and wounding several, among 
 which was Barr. He was hit in 
 the leg and about the knee. He 
 was sent immediately to the hos- 
 pital where he died on August 1. 
 He was born August 5, 1893, 
 
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 SEVERSON, SANFORD 
 Killed July 29, 1918. 
 
 Wagoner 
 
 Wagoner Severson was sleeping 
 with Clifford Litz when he was 
 killed by an exploding shell. 
 
 Severson's home, Kanawha,*; 
 Iowa. 
 
 He was buried in the Foret de 
 Fere near the crossroads above 
 the White Cross Farm. 
 
 LITZ, CLIFFORD 
 
 Private First Class 
 KUled on July 29th, 1918. 
 
 The supply company was sta- 
 tioned in the Foret de Fere and 
 Litz was sleeping under a ration 
 cart with his companion. A shell 
 exploded near them during the 
 night and both were killed. The 
 boy sleeping in the wagon knew 
 nothing about it until morning. 
 Private Litz was buried in the 
 woods near the crossroads at 
 Foret de Fere. 
 
 Relative's address, 366 Fifth 
 Ave., Dubuque, Iowa. 
 
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 SPARR, DONALD D. 
 
 Sergeant Supply Company 
 
 Wounded on July 30, 1918. 
 
 Relative's address, F. S. Sparr, 
 Cromwell, Iowa. 
 
 Sergeant Sparr was wounded in 
 the shoulder by an exploding 
 shell, while the company was 
 camped in the Foret de Fere. He 
 was taken to the hospital where 
 he died on August 9. Donald 
 was a splendid chap and popular 
 with all of the company. 
 
 MOOREHOUSE, IRA D. 
 
 Private S apply Company 
 
 Killed July 30, 1918. 
 
 Relative's address, R, F. D. No. 
 1, Kahoka, Mo. 
 
 Private Moorehouse was killed 
 by shrapnel fire while asleep in: 
 a shallow dugout, which he him- 
 self had dug for protection from 
 heavy shell fire. Private Moore- 
 house had served faithfully 
 since the beginning of the war 
 and was liked by all who knew 
 him. 
 
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 ALVA C. 99996 
 
 Corporal Company A 
 Killed July 30th at Sergy. 
 Buried in Grave No. 45-B, Map 
 of Fere-en-Tardinois. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. 
 St. Charles, Iowa. 
 As acting sergeant, 
 given charge of the second sec- 
 tion of the first platoon, which 
 he courageously led across the , 
 Ourcq river. While leading his 
 men over the top he was killed 
 instantly by machine gun fire. 
 Corporal Gripp died as an Amer- 
 ican soldier would want to die — 
 facing the enemy, pressing on to 
 victory. 
 
 He always delivered the goods, 
 no matter how difficult the task. 
 
 ELLIS, JOHN F. 100713 
 
 Private Company D 
 
 Killed July 29th at Chateau 
 Thierry near Sergy. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 40, Map of 
 Fere-en-Tardinois . 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Ellis, 
 Centerville, Iowa. 
 
 Private Ellis was wounded in the 
 bombardment at Badonvillier on 
 March 5th. He returned to the 
 company in May and went to the 
 Champagne Front with the regi- 
 ment where he made a very good 
 record. 
 
 Private Ellis was killed by a high 
 explosive shell. 
 
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 COWNIE, BRODIE G. 102362 
 
 Private First Class, Company L 
 
 Died July 30th at the 168th Field 
 Hospital. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. 
 Cownie, Sioux City, Neb. 
 
 Private Cownie was wounded by 
 machine gun fire during the at- 
 tack on Hill 212. Fearlessly he 
 forged ahead in much heavier 
 fire than any of the company had 
 experienced before. 
 
 Small of stature but full of grit, 
 he rivaled any of the stronger 
 physique in bravery and cool- 
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 HENRY, RENNIE E. 101081 
 
 Sergeant Company F 
 
 Wounded at Chateau Thierry 
 on July 26th and died in hospital 
 July 30, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. B. C. 
 Henry, Villisca, Iowa. 
 
 When the order came to go 
 "over the top" his platoon went 
 forward against heavy machine 
 gun fire and were ordered to get 
 down. Then the order came for 
 one man at a time to advance. 
 
 Sergeant Henry immediately 
 raised up and started forward. 
 
 He raised his rifle to shoot at a 
 fleeing Boche and it was then 
 that two machine gun bullets 
 struck him in the neck. 
 
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 ATWATER, LEO R. 
 
 Private Company B 
 
 Died in Base Hospital No. 48; 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. D. Atwater, 
 Minden, Nebr. 
 
 Private Atwater was wounded in 
 action on August 23, 1918 and 
 died shortly after in the hospital. 
 
 Enlisted April 8, 1917. 
 
 JOBE, LAURANCE EDWARD 
 
 Private Company E 168th Infantry 
 Died of wounds July 26, 1918. 
 Home address, Macedonia, Iowa. 
 . Laurance was seriously wounded 
 on July 26th and was carried to 
 the dressing station, where he 
 died. He gave to his comrade, 
 ^ Harry Compton, a message to be 
 
 ^^ carried to his mother, saying, "I 
 
 ^ am all right. I have done my 
 
 '■• bit and am ready to go. Tell 
 
 mother God bless her and I 
 will see her some day." Lau- 
 rance had nine machine bullets 
 through his body. He was buried 
 at Epieds, France. The stoical 
 manner in which he endured his 
 suffering and faced death was in- 
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AFTER the battle of Chateau Thierry, our tired and much depleted 
 division bivouacked in the woods called "Foret de Fere." For more 
 than a week in this woods, still smelling of gas and rank with the odor 
 of the battlefield, we rested our animals, then began our march to the Bour- 
 mont area. Our horses were thin and starved and our regiment with less 
 than a third of its original number, our material scarred by the recent 
 battle were not imposing. Night after night on this long march when we 
 would arrive in the town in which we were to billet, our men had but one 
 thought, that was to rest. 
 
 About August 18 we arrived near Blevaincourt while our division head- 
 quarters were at Bourmont. In this picturesque country, dotted every- 
 where by little villages, with hills fir-clad, and green valleys winding in 
 and out among them, we rested for our first and only rest of the summer. 
 The lazy clouds drifting overhead and the peasants working in the fields, 
 with the ringing of the church bell at evening, gave our surroundings a 
 restful, reinvigorating air that helped us to forget the horrors of the bat- 
 tle. I myself, was sent to the hospital at Chaumont and only know these 
 things through the reports of the officers and men. 
 
 Our regiment was re-equipped, reorganized and replaced and a few 
 days of drill were given to our new recruits before, on August 30, we once 
 more turned our faces toward the battle line. All of France was alive 
 with rumors of the great American battle about to commence. I was in 
 Paris on this date and it was the talk of the city there. The next day the 
 movement began and we, with the First and Second Divisions were 
 moved up in the direction of Toul. From the area above Neufchateau our 
 division marched only at night, camping in the forest in the day-time. 
 With the first touch of darkness we moved out on the roads and kept up 
 the steady tramp, tramp until the first streak of dawning light. When we 
 reached Toul, which was near the line, to the amazement of our men, the 
 policy was reversed and our troops marched by broad daylight straight up 
 to the enemy line. We were placed almost in the center of the salient 
 and waited there in the forest in the mud and rain for the attack to begin. 
 
 The Eighty-ninth Division was on our right and this was its first battle. 
 The men were all full of excitement, which recalled to our boys our first 
 days in the line. Our division front extended from Seicheprey on the 
 east, westward to Flerrey. On the night of September 11, we marched out 
 of the Foret de Lareine toward our positions in which we were ordered to 
 be by 12 o'clock. In the darkness of the 
 
 night, as our orders were delayed in arriving " ;.-. > " 
 
 and the roads were full, it was with the ut- 
 most difficulty that we reached our place in 
 time for the jump-off. The artillery was to 
 begin its fire at 1 o'clock. It would last for 
 several hours and before daylight the great 
 American attack would be under way. 
 
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The Germans had obtained information concerning the attack and 
 had many guns firing a steady, continuous, harassing fire, which added to 
 the misery and difficulty of the night. 
 
 An intense downpour of rain commenced to fall over the Woevre 
 plains just a few moments before the artillery began its fire. This, while 
 adding to the difficulty of the advance and the bringing up of supplies, 
 protected the men from aeroplane bombs and made it impossible for the 
 enemy to detect our plans. After about an hour and forty minutes the 
 German guns replied to ours but they used only small guns and it 
 was not to be compared with the artillery barrages which our boys ex- 
 perienced in Champagne and Chateau Thierry. 
 
 When the hour came for the advance, the whole American line 
 moved forward in irresistible force, past the first German trench, splen- 
 didly supported by artillery. Before noon it had reached its objective for 
 that day. In the twenty-seven hours, our division drove ahead far in 
 advance of the new division on its right, passed through the towns of 
 Pannes, Beney and into the woods of Dampvitrous, where we were halted 
 by orders from headquarters. Our objective had been reached, a nine- 
 teen kilometer drive toward Metz. Long lines of prisoners filled the road 
 and they seemed to be pleased with their lot as they marched rapidly to 
 the rear. 
 
 While in the latter part of the battle we met with practically no re- 
 sistance, yet, at the first, in the front of the Third Battalion under Major 
 Brewer, we had met a stiff resistance in the Boid de La Sonard and we 
 had heavy casualties there. At the close of this battle we were held in 
 line for raiding purposes. On the night of September 22, while Alabama 
 was raiding Haumont, we raided the farm directly in front of our sector 
 capturing nine prisoners and two machine guns. The Germans attempted 
 to raid us the following night but their only success was their own loss of 
 three prisoners and machine gun. We suffered light casualties from these 
 raids. 
 
 I do not mean to leave the impression that this battle was a light af- 
 fair or that the Germans did not resist with all their power. Their ma- 
 chine gun fire was terrific and our boys displayed as fine heroism as was 
 ever displayed in our regiment as they charged bravely up the steep hills, 
 through great depths of wire entanglements, into the very mouths of pop- 
 ping machine guns. This salient had been attacked before by the French 
 and they had suffered a costly defeat here, but when the American forces, 
 fighting with vim and vigor, dashed against the wails of this fortress it 
 fell as though struck by a tidal wave. Fifteen thousand, six hundred 
 prisoners were captured by the Americans in twenty-four hours of this 
 drive. It was splendidly planned by our command and bravely executed 
 by our soldiers. Here the German command first felt the weight, power 
 and irresistible force which was soon to be thrown headlong against 
 them. The morale of the German soldier, knowing that certain defeat 
 would come, began its downward progress, while the morale of the allies 
 was lifted to its highest pitch. 
 
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To those heroic dead, whose names and faces are here pictured and 
 for many of whom it was their first battle, we cannot pay too high a trib- 
 ute. Some of the best officers and men the regiment ever possessed fell, 
 fighting gloriously here, but the last vision that was before their eyes was 
 of their own comrades going forward splendidly to certain victory, while 
 the despised Hun was tasting the first bitter dregs of defeat. I imagine 
 it eased the pain of their dying moments to know that while they paid the 
 price, success was certain. They sleep tonight on the plains of the Woevre, 
 but when spring comes again and the peasant comes back to the ruined 
 villages and, with a song in his heart, begins to build anew his home, and 
 the laughter of little children rings again on the twilight air and the lovers 
 wander side by side down the beautiful French roads, I am sure their slum- 
 bers are light and their sleep is interspersed with pleasant dreams. It is 
 with mingled pride and sorrow that we record the names of the regiment's 
 dead and though we, who live, may make many friends of the future, no 
 men of the world shall ever take the place of those we buried on the 
 Woevre at St. Mihiel. 
 
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 GIESE, ERNEST 102243 
 
 Sergeant Company L 
 
 Died of wounds received at St. 
 Mihiel on September 12, 1918. 
 
 Sergeant Giese proved himself 
 to be a non-commissioned officer 
 who could always be depended 
 on to fulfill his duties to the sat- 
 isfaction of all. In the rear areas 
 he was prompt, obedient, and 
 snappy ; under fire he was cool 
 brave and aggressive; as a man 
 he was honest and kindly con- 
 siderate to others. 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. W, R. 
 Allis, Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
 
 MEYER, WALTER F. 101936 
 
 Private Company I 
 Died September 12, 1918 at 
 Evacuation Hospital 14. 
 Up to the time of his death Pri- 
 vate Meyer was with the regi- 
 ment in all their engagements. In 
 the attack on the St. Mihiel sali- 
 ent, while acting as a platoon 
 runner he was mortally wounded 
 by a German machine gun bul- , 
 let. While lying wounded he 
 seemed to realize that his time 
 had come for he shook hands 
 with some of his friends and 
 said, "My time has come, boys, 
 get a Bosche for me." He was 
 well liked by all and as a soldier 
 he performed his duties in a true 
 and efficient manner. 
 Relative's address, Winnie Hoff, 
 Burlington, Iowa. 
 
 
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 Private Company M 
 Died September 12, 1918, of 
 wounds received in action on 
 September 10. 
 
 Private Adkins' earlier life has 
 been likened to that of Abraham 
 Lincoln. He was purely a self- 
 made man, and at an early age, 
 it was necessary for him to dis- 
 continue his schooling and take 
 care of his three orphaned 
 brothers. He enlisted in Com- 
 pany M. He often expressed the 
 wish to get at the Huns. Private 
 Adkins was wounded on Septeni- 
 ber 10, in the St. Mihiel battle. 
 He sacrificed his personal ambi- 
 tions and at last his life for his 
 country. 
 
 Father, T. H. Adkins, Fairfield, 
 Iowa. 
 
 WHEELER, KARL H. 
 
 Second Lieutenant Company L 
 
 Killed September 12, at St. Mi- 
 hiel, near Flirey, Bois du Jury. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 1, Map of 
 Pannes. 
 
 Lieutenant Wheeler was killed in' 
 action by machine gun fire in the 
 attack on the St. Mihiel salient. 
 
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 long but in this advance he led 
 his platoon with such coolness, 
 courage and dash that he proved 
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 First Lieutenant Company M 
 Killed September 12th at St. 
 Mihiel. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 5-C, Map 
 of Pannes. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. W. 
 Currie, Austin, Texas. 
 
 Lieutenant Currie was killed by 
 a machine gun bullet. He had, 
 been wounded at Lorraine and' 
 was in the hospital during the 
 Chateau Thierry drive. He came 
 to the regiment at Camp Mills 
 and at once demonstrated his 
 ability as a platoon commander 
 and no other officer was held in 
 higher esteem by his men than 
 he. 
 
 CHAMPION, FRANK C. 1487969 
 Private Company L 
 Killed September 12, 1918 at St. 
 Mihiel near Flirey. 
 Buried in Grave No. 4-A, Map of 
 Pannes. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Cham- 
 pion, Georgetown, Texas. 
 
 Private Champion was killed in 
 the attack on the St. Mihiel 
 salient. He was highly intel- 
 lectual and well educated. Pri- 
 vate Champion also had a sense 
 of military operations that is 
 seldom found in the ranks. He 
 made a lasting impression in the 
 short time that he was with the 
 organization as being a brave 
 and faithful soldier with a good 
 future before him. 
 
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 Private Company M 
 
 Killed September 12, 1918 at St, 
 Mihiel near Fliery. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 14-B, Map 
 of Pannes. 
 
 
 Private Cox was killed in the 
 drive at the St. Mihiel salient. 
 
 I have been unable to gather the 
 facts of his death. 
 
 DOTY, WILLIAM D. 
 
 Second Lieutenant Company K 
 Killed September 12, 1918 at St. 
 Mihiel near Fliery. 
 Buried in Grave No. 18, Map of 
 Pannes. 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. W. D. 
 Doty, Rochester, N. Y. 
 Lieutenant Doty was killed by a 
 high explosive shell while lead- 
 ing his men in the advance on 
 the St. Mihiel salient. His death 
 was instantaneous and he suf- 
 fered no pain. 
 
 Lieutenant Doty was a leader of 
 men and gave his all gladly for 
 his country. 
 
 He enlisted in the Second Am- 
 bulance Corps, but was later 
 sent to an officers' training 
 camp and from there sent over- 
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 101987 
 
 Sergeant Company K 
 
 Killed September 12, 1918 at St. 
 Mihiel. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 15, Map of 
 Pannes. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick 
 McHugh, Cummings, Iowa. 
 
 Sergeant McHugh was killed in 
 the advance on the St. Mihiel 
 salient. He was leading his 
 platoon against the enemy front 
 line when he was struck by ma- 
 chine gun bullets, five bullets 
 penetrating his side. He handed 
 some books and letters he was 
 carrying in his pockets to a com- 
 rade and said, "Here take these 
 "and tell my Mother about it." 
 
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 Corporal Company K 
 
 Killed September 12, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 4- J, Map 
 of Pannes. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. James 
 Powers, Kingsley, Iowa. 
 
 Corporal Powers was killed in 
 the attack on the St. Mihiel 
 salient. He was urging his men 
 onward, himself in the lead, and 
 became exposed to the terrible 
 machine gun fire. He was struck 
 several times and his death was 
 instantaneous. 
 
 Corporal Powers had served with 
 the regiment at Lorraine, Cham- 
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 Private Company K 
 
 Killed September 12, 1918 at St. 
 Mihiel. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Chris Nel- 
 son, Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
 
 Private Nelson was killed in 
 action by machine gun fire in the 
 attack on the St, Mihiel salient. 
 Not overbearing, but firm and 
 impressive; quiet, yet forceful 
 were the qualities that attracted 
 one's attention to Nelson. He 
 was soldierly in appearance, 
 honest and truthful at all times. 
 
 
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 Private Company L 
 
 Killed September 12, 1918 at St. 
 Mihiel. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 4-G, Map 
 of Pannes. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Clara Virginia Son- 
 neman, Washington, D. C. 
 
 Private Sonneman was killed by 
 machine gun fire, ,i^\ 
 
 He made an excellent front line 
 soldier. When danger lay in the 
 path of duty he never looked at 
 the danger, but kept his eyes on 
 the goal that he was to reach. 
 
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 Corporal Company I 
 Killed September 12, 1918 at St. 
 Mihiel Front. 
 
 Buried near place of death. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey 
 Coon, Okarche, Okla. 
 
 Corporal Coon was killed near 
 Benny, in the attack on the St. 
 Mihiel salient. He volunteered, 
 with four other men, to get wire 
 cutters from a shed in advance 
 of our lines and in the perform- 
 ance of this duty, he was hit by 
 machine gun bullets and killed. 
 Corporal Coon did excellent work 
 as a non-commissioned officer 
 and always took an interest in 
 the welfare of the men of his 
 squad. 
 
 CLARK, ABEL 1488370 
 
 Private Company I 
 Killed September 12, 1918. 
 Buried in Grave No. 4-D, Map 
 of Pannes. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Maggie Clark, Gist, 
 Texas. 
 
 Private Clark was killed near 
 Benney. He had advanced to 
 the German line when he was 
 struck by two German machine I 
 gun bullets. 
 
 He joined Company I at Chau- 
 mont as a replacement and was 
 attached to Battalion Head- 
 quarters as a scout. As a mem- y\ 
 ber of that organization, he per- \ 
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 Corporal Company M. 
 
 Killed September 12th near 
 Fleury, France. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 11 near Bois 
 de Jury, Map of Pannes. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Cal Den- 
 linger, Henderson. Iowa. 
 
 Corporal Denlinger was killed by 
 machine gun fire during the at- 
 tack in the St. Mihiel salient. 
 
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 DOOCY, ELMER T. 
 
 First Lieutenant Company M 
 Killed September 12th near 
 Fliery. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 4, Map of 
 Pannes. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward 
 Doocy, Pittsfield, 111. 
 Lieutenant Doocy was killed by 
 a machine gun bullet while lead- 
 ing his platoon through the wire. 
 In the gas attack, Lieutenant 
 Doocy had charge of the sentries 
 on guard in the trenches and he 
 won the loyalty and love of his 
 men by going out all during the 
 bombardment to see that they 
 were all safe. 
 
 He was awarded the D. S. C. by 
 General Pershing for his bravery 
 and daring under fire at Cham- 
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 Sergeant Company M 
 Killed September 12th at St. 
 Mihiel. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 13-C, Map 
 of Pannes. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Mary McManus, 
 Cherokee, Iowa. 
 
 In the attack at St. Mihiel, Ser- 
 geant McManus was out in front 
 leading his men when he was hit 
 and killed by a machine gun 
 bullet. He was a good soldier 
 and a leader of men. Sergeant 
 McManus was rated as one of 
 the best sergeants in his com- 
 pany. He was loved and trusted 
 by all his comrades and his men 
 were ready to go with him on 
 iny mission, no matter how 
 dangerous. 
 
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 Private Company M 
 
 Killed September 12, 1918 at St. 
 Mihiel near Fliery. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 14-A, Map 
 of Pannes. ^ " 
 
 Son of Mrs. 
 Wheeling, Va. 
 
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 Private Loos was killed during 
 the attack on the St. Mihiel 
 salient. 
 
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 1855956 
 Private Company M 
 
 Killed September 12, 1918 at St. 
 Mihiel near Fliery. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 10, Map of 
 Pannes. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Hud- 
 dleston, Bingen, Ark. 
 
 Private Huddleston was killed in 
 the attack at St. Mihiel. 
 
 A local Post of the American 
 Legion, which is composed of ex- 
 soldiers, ex-sailors and ex- 
 marines, was named in honor of 
 Lesley Huddleston. 
 
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 Private Company M 
 
 Killed September 12, 1918 at St. 
 Mihiel. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 4-H, Map 
 of Pannes. 
 
 Relative's address, Bill Gibson, 
 Tinsley, Ky. 
 
 Private Gibson was killed dur- M^l 
 ing the drive at St. Mihiel. 
 
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 Private Company L 
 
 Killed September 12th at St. 
 Mihief. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 4-B, Map of 
 Pannes. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles 
 Eaton, Washington, D. C. 
 
 Private Easton was killed while 
 in action by machine gun fire. 
 He displayed exceptional bravery 
 in a sweeping machine gun fire. 
 
 He continued to advance and to 
 return the fire with great skill 
 and accuracy until he was finally 
 stopped forever. 
 
 
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 Private Company L 
 
 Killed at St. Mihiel, September 
 12th. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 4, Map of 
 Pannes. 
 
 Private Erschens was killed while 
 in action by machine gun fire( 
 dujring the attack on the St. 
 Mihiel salient. 
 
 He had those qualities that make 
 a good soldier. Private Erchens 
 had many warm friends in the 
 company even though he had 
 not been with us very long. 
 
 Relative's address. Kathryn Mor- 
 tes, Fon du Lac, Wl<!, 
 
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 Private Company K 
 Killed September 12, 1918 at St. 
 Mihiel. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 4-C, Map of 
 Pannes. 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. Belinda 
 Pickard, New Boston, Iowa. 
 While advancing in the attack on 
 the St. Mihiel salient near Fliery, 
 Private Morgan was hit in the 
 throat and head by machine gun 
 bullets and killed instantly. 
 
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 Second Lieutenant Company L 
 Killed at St. Mihiel September 
 12th. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 5-A, Map of 
 Pannes. 
 
 Relative's address. Miss Jennie 
 B. Wallace, Mont Calm, Texas. 
 Lieutenant Wallace was killed by 
 shell fire during the attack at St. 
 Mihiel. He was with the com- 
 pany constantly from the time 
 of the mobilization of the Divi- 
 sion at Camp Mills. His clean 
 life, conscientious work, untiring 
 energy and fearless devotion to 
 his duty, however dangerous the 
 task, won for him an exalted 
 place in the memories of all of 
 those with whom he was asso- 
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 Corporal Company L 
 Killed at St. Mihiel, September 
 12th. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 8-A, Map of 
 Pannes. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. An- 
 derson, Sioux City, Iowa. 
 
 Corporal Anderson was killed by 
 machine gun fire during the St. 
 Mihiel attack. He felt when he 
 went into the drive that his time 
 had come but he repeatedly said 
 that he was ready and willing to 
 die and that he would die fight- 
 ing. So it was. He carried out 
 the orders in his last battle as he 
 always did, faithfully and con- 
 /scientiously. 
 
 WILKINS, FRANK 
 
 Private Headquarters Company 
 
 Wounded September 12th at St. 
 Mihiel. 
 
 Private Wilkins was wounded on 
 the morning of September 12th 
 while going to take up a position 
 in the advance to prepare tele* 
 phone connections for the regi- 
 ment, he being a member of the^: 
 signal Corp. He died in the hos-, 
 pital No. 26 on November 11th. 
 
 Private Wilkins was a very good 
 soldier and always ready to go 
 out and do his duty. 
 
 His home was at Denison, Iowa. 
 
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 First Lieutenant 
 Killed September 12th at St. 
 Mihiel. Buried in grave No. 2, 
 Map of Pannes. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Odessa Wells, 
 Wichita, Kan. 
 
 Hardly had the artillery prepara- 
 tion ceased and the advance be- 
 gun in the great St. Mihiel fight, 
 when this gallant officer met his 
 death, a fragment of high explo- 
 sive pierced his abdomen. Little 
 time did he have to suffer, but 
 he utilized that time to encourage 
 his men. 
 
 All who knew him were im- 
 pressed with his noble character, 
 jl, intellectual ability and his moral 
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 Killed September 12th near 
 Fliery. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 8-B, Map of 
 Pannes. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Mary Badger, Coun- 
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 Corporal Badger was killed by 
 machine gun fire. He was a clean, 
 strong, healthy man, who had 
 military intellectual qualities that 
 were not inferior to his physical 
 prowess. His comrades delighted 
 in his companionship and his 
 officers depended upon his initia- 
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 Corporal Company L 
 
 Killed at St. Mihiel, September 
 12th. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Christ 
 Hiemer, Milwaukee, Wis. 
 
 Corporal Hiemer was killed in 
 action by machine gun fire. He 
 was intelligent, energetic and 
 conscientious in the performance 
 of all duty and considerate in all 
 his relations with his compan- 
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 Buried in grave No. 7-A, Map of 
 Pannes. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Ker- 
 berg, Jeffersonville, Ind. 
 
 Corporal Kerberg was killed by' 
 machine gun fire during the at- 
 tack on the St. Mihiel salient. 
 In this drive he set an example 
 for his comrades to follow. 
 
 He had the qualities and aggres- 
 siveness and untiring energy that 
 are necessary to make an attack 
 a success. 
 
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 Private First Class Company L 
 
 Killed September 12th at St. 
 Mihiel. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 7-B, Map of 
 Pannes. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. M. G. 
 DeWolf, Sioux City, Iowa. \^ 
 
 Private DeWolf was a man of 
 fearless disposition and strong 
 constitution. He was as persis- 
 tent and efficient a Kaiser hunter 
 as anyone could want 
 
 He was killed in action by ma- 
 chine gun fire. 
 
 STRATIKOPULOS, DIMITRIOS G. 
 
 102436 Corporal Company L 
 
 Killed at St. Mihiel, September 
 12, 1918. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 5-B, Map of 
 Pannes. 
 
 Relative's address, George Stu- 
 pas. Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
 
 Corporal Stratikopulos was killed 
 in action in the attack on the St. 
 Mihiel salient. 
 
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 Private First Class Company L 
 Killed September 12, 1918 at St. 
 Mihiel. 
 
 Buried in grave No, 9-B, Map of 
 
 Pannes. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Lillian Gilbert, 
 
 Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
 
 Private Gilbert was killed during 
 the attack on the St. Mihiel sali- 
 ent by machine gun fire. 
 He was young but there was a 
 determination in his character 
 and training that carried him 
 through every hardship and diffi- 
 culty. He will always be remem- 
 bered as a lad who did his duty, 
 io matter what the odds. 
 
 GROAT, WILLIAM 
 
 Private Headquarters Company 
 Killed near Fliery, September 12, 
 1918. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 4-F, Map of 
 Pannes. 
 
 Private Groat was a runner for 
 Major Brewer in the St. Mihiel 
 salient. He was advancing in 
 company with the Major and 
 Lieutenant Wells as the men 
 went over the top at dawn. Ma- 
 jor Brewer was wounded in the 
 arm by machine gun fire. Lieu- 
 tenant Wells was killed by a frag- 
 ment of a high explosive shell and 
 Private Groat was killed by a ma- 
 chine gun bullet in the throat, 
 death being instantaneous. 
 Relative's address, Mrs. Frank 
 Nitz, Bloomfield, Neb. 
 
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SMITH, CHARLES C. 
 
 Lieatenant Machine Gun Company 
 
 Killed on the St. Mihiel advance 
 on September 12, 1918. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 4-K, Map of 
 Pannes. 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs>. A. B. 
 Van Kirk, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 Lieutenant Smith was advancing 
 with his platoon on the St. Mihiel 
 drive, when he was killed instant- 
 ly by a machine gun bullet, 
 which struck him in the Head. 
 
 He had served throughout the 
 Lorraine campaign. Champagne, 
 Chateau Thierry and St. Mihiel 
 with a fine record as an officer. 
 
 WHALEN, DAVE 
 
 99708 
 
 Sergeant Machine Gun Company 
 
 Killed at St, Mihiel, September 
 12th. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 9-A, Map 
 of Pannes. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. James 
 Whalen, Tipton, Iowa. 
 
 Sergeant Whalen was killed on 
 the St. Mihiel advance, while 
 advancing with a squad of ma- 
 chine gunners. He was hit in 
 the head by a machine gun bul- 
 let and killed instantly. He had 
 served at Lorraine, Champagne, 
 Chateau Thierry and St. Mihiel. 
 
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 Private Company M 
 
 Killed September 12th at Saint 
 Mihiel. 
 
 Buried near where he fell. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Lillie Edwards, 
 Springfield, Mo. 
 
 Private Edwards was killed in the 
 attack on the St. Mihiel salient. 
 
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 Private Company G 
 
 Killed at St. Mihiel near Benney, 
 September 12, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Mary Maloch, Gon- 
 zales, Texas. 
 
 Private Maloch had been withR 
 the regiment only a short time. 
 
 He came to us as a replacement 
 from the Texas National Guard. 
 
 Private Maloch was killed by a 
 fragment of high explosive shell 
 on the first day of our advance. 
 
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 Corporal Company H 
 Killed September 13th on the 
 Saint Mihiel drive. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. 
 Hardinger, Waterloo, Iowa. 
 As company H were advancing on 
 the morning of September 13th, 
 they ran into a bunch of machine 
 gun nests. Corporal Hardinger 
 sought shelter in a shell hole, but 
 was seen a little later on his 
 knees shooting at a German ma- 
 chine gunner. His men called to 
 him to keep down, but at that in- 
 stant a machine gun bullet hit 
 him between the eyes, killing 
 him instantly. 
 
 He was a brave soldier and 
 thought well of by all his com- 
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 Private Company M 
 
 Killed September 13, 1918 at St. 
 Mihiel. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 3, Map of 
 Pannes. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander 
 Nallis, Adamsburg, Pa. 
 
 Private Nallis was killed during 
 the advance on the St. Mihiel 
 salient. 
 
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 Private Company E 
 
 Died September 13, 1918 in Hos- 
 pital at Neufchateau, France. 
 
 Private Harrison had been with 
 the company but three weeks 
 and this was his first large en- 
 gagement. He was wounded 
 severely on September 12th. 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. Barney 
 P. Hookerm Ritter, South Caro- 
 lina. 
 
 tember 13, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 2-B, Map of 
 Chambley 5-6 XXXni-13. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kal-, 
 inec, Gonzales, Texas. 
 
 Private Kalinec was killed by 
 shrapnel while advancing with 
 the company through the dense 
 woods. He came to the regi- 
 ment from the Texas National 
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 Private Company E 
 
 Killed September 13, 1918 on 
 the Vignculles Dompvitoux 
 Road in front of Haumont. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 2-F, Map of 
 Chambley 5-6 XXXIII-13. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. William F. 
 Stewart, Mockville, North Car- 
 olina. 
 
 Private Stewart had been with 
 the company but ten days when 
 he was killed. 
 
 BATH, WILLIAM 
 
 Private First Class Company E 
 
 Killed south of Benney, France, 
 September 13, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. John 
 Bath, Negaunee, Mich. 
 
 Private Bath came to Company 
 E in April and served through- 
 out the remainder of the Lor- 
 raine Campaign, the Battle of 
 Champagne and Chateau 
 
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 Private Company M 
 
 Killed on St. Mihiel salient, Sep- 
 tember 13, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. F. L Dim- 
 mitt, Fairfield, leva. 
 
 Company M kept no records of 
 its dead and so the facts of many 
 of their deaths is unknown. 
 
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 Corporal Company E 
 
 Killed south of Beney, Septem- 
 ber 13, 1918. 
 
 Corporal Adams was an original 
 Company E man who had 
 served faithfully through the 
 Lorraine, Battle of Champagne 
 and Chateau Thierry. He was 
 a brave and fearless soldier. 
 
 He early became known for his 
 courage and daring and was re- 
 spected by all of his many com- 
 rades. 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. Amy 
 Aldrich, Shenandoah, Iowa. 
 
 Born at Malvern, Iowa in 1900. 
 
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 100981 
 Private First Class Company E 
 
 Died September 14, 1918 in 
 Evacuation Hospital No. 117. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. E. 
 Heidenreich, Rockford, Iowa. 
 
 Private Heidenreich was wound- 
 ed at Chateau Thierry but re-j 
 turned soon after, only to meet\ 
 his death a few days later. A 
 brave and courageous soldier \y 
 with a splendid record behind 
 him. He had served through- 
 out the Lorraine and the Battle 
 of Champagne with the regi- 
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 Private Company M 
 
 Killed September 14, 1918 at the 
 St. Mihiel Front. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 15-C, Map 
 of Pannes. 
 
 Casebolt had only been with the 
 regiment a short time but had 
 proved himself a great soldier. 
 
 Relative's address, Mary C, 
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 3281344 
 
 Private Company K 
 
 Killed September 14, 1918 at St. 
 Mihiel. 
 
 While advancing in the attack 
 on the St. Mihiel salient near 
 Fliery, Private Jones was 
 wounded by a high explosive 
 shell and taken to the hospital 
 where he died. 
 
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 Private First Class Company L 
 
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 Buried in Grave No. 
 of Pannes. 
 
 4-C, Map 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Wall- 
 raf, Mankato, Minn. 
 Private Wallraf was killed in 
 action by machine gun fire. He 
 had no fear of shot or shell. In 
 the capacity of Battalion runner, 
 in which place he had served 
 for many months, he was ex- 
 ceptionally steady and reliable. 
 
 He was a gentleman in every 
 sense of the word. 
 
 KILLEN, DON J. 10018 
 
 Private Company A 
 Died in Field Hospital No. 168th 
 September 14, 1919. 
 Son of Mrs. Effie Killen, Car- 
 lisle, Iowa. 
 
 Private Killen was fatally 
 wounded in the St. Mihiel at- 
 tack while defending his post. 
 He was taken to the hospital, 
 where he died soon after. Be- 
 fore the regiment sailed for 
 France, he was numbered 
 among the best in the company. 
 At Lorraine he took part in all 
 raids and patrols sent out by the 
 company, doing this in addition 
 to his other duties. It would be 
 hard to overestimate his worth 
 for the gallant part he played 
 during the dark days when the 
 fate of the world was hung in 
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 Private Company K 
 
 Died September 14, 1918. 
 
 While advancing in the attack 
 on the St. Mihiel sahent, Pri- 
 vate Tribby was seriously 
 wounded and was taken to the 
 hospital where he died. He was 
 with the regiment in Lorraine, 
 in Champagne and in the drive 
 at Chateau Thierry. 
 
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 Relative's address, Dale D. 
 Marshall, Clarinda, Iowa. 
 
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 ferred from the 168th Infantry 
 to the 351st Engineers. 
 
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 near the village of Fayen-Hay, 
 France on September 14, 1918. 
 
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 COLLINS, JOHN B. 1349553 
 
 Private Company M 
 Killed September 14, 1918. 
 Buried in Grave No. 6, Map of 
 Pannes. 
 
 Born February 22, 1896. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Col- 
 lins, Covin, Alabama. 
 
 Private Collins was killed by 
 shell fire while making a charge 
 in the advance on the St. Mihiel 
 salient. 
 
 He had been transferred to the 
 168th Infantry from the Dixie 
 Division. 
 
 Private Collins came from a 
 family of fighters, his grand- 
 father having been a captain in 
 the Civil War. 
 
 WOODS, GILBERT H. 
 
 Sergeant Company H 
 
 Killed at St. Mihiel September 
 14, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 2-D, Map 
 of Chambley 5-6 XXXIII-13. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Milton 
 Woods, Des Moines, Iowa. 
 
 Sergeant Woods was killed after 
 the advance was finished in the 
 St. Mihiel drive and our line had 
 been established. 
 
 Born November 21, 1895 at 
 Oskaloosa, Iowa. 
 
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 DOYLE, WILLIAM 2969265 
 
 Private Company E 
 
 Died September 14, 1918 in 
 Evacuation Hospital No. 117. 
 
 Private Doyle had been with 
 the company but ten days and 
 this was his first large engage- 
 ment. 
 
 He was wounded severely Sep- 
 tember 13th in the attack on the 
 St. Mihiel salient. 
 
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 Killed September 14, 1918 on 
 the VigneuUes DompVitoux 
 Road in front of Haumont. 
 
 Son of Mr, and Mrs. Thos. Dis-' 
 pain, Lincoln, Alabama. 
 
 Private Dispain joined the regi- 
 ment after the Chateau Thierry 
 Battle and this was his first bat- 
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 Private Company E 
 
 Killed September 14, 1918 on 
 the Vigneulles Dompvitoux 
 Road in the front of Haumont. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 16, Map of 
 Pannes. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. HeUah 
 Swift, Brownsville, Pa. 
 
 Private Swift had been with the 
 regiment only two weeks and 
 was in his first engagement 
 when killed. 
 
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 GLISSON, JOHN B. 1351206 
 
 Private Company F 
 
 Wounded September 13, 1918 
 and died in the hospital Septem- 
 ber 15th. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Mary Glisson, 
 Fletcher, Florida. 
 
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 Private Glisson was one of the 
 replacements sent to the regi- 
 ment at the Chateau Thierry 
 Front, and had just come back 
 when he received the wound 
 that caused his death. Glisson 
 had become mixed with Com- 
 pany G while advancing and 
 was with them when he was 
 wounded. 
 
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 ROBINSON, BRYAN, 1488429 
 
 Private Company H 
 
 Killed September 15, 1918 on the 
 St. Mihiel Drive. 
 
 Son of Mrs. L. Robinson, Gon- 
 zales, Texas. 
 
 Private Robinson was killed dur- 
 ing the advance on Saint Mihiel. 
 
 Robinson had joined the regi- 
 ment after the Chateau Thierry 
 drive. This being his first battle. 
 He came as a replacement from 
 the Texas National Guard. 
 
 
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 Missing since September 15, 
 1918 in a raid on Marimboys 
 Farm near Haumont, France. 
 
 Son of Mrs. M. Whisemount, 
 Lindsey, Okla. 
 
 Private Whisemount had been 
 with the company but three 
 weeks when he participated in 
 a raid against the Germans at 
 Marimboys Farm. From that 
 action he never returned and 
 was never seen or heard of after 
 that. 
 
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 Private Company A 
 Died September 16th, from 
 wounds received in action Sep- 
 tember 15, 1918. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. U. S. 
 Woodward, Winterset, Iowa. 
 Private Woodward was killed by 
 shrapnel during the drive on the 
 St. Mihiel Front. 
 
 He was gassed at Lorraine and 
 was in the hospital for three 
 weeks. He served with the reg- 
 iment through the Chateau 
 Thierry drive. Private Wood- 
 ward was made a corporal a 
 short time before his death. 
 He was a good soldier and his 
 loss was felt by all who knew 
 him. 
 
 LEMOS, FRANCISCO 1488072 
 
 Private Company G 
 
 Killed September 16, 1918 at St. 
 Mihiel Sector, 1,500 yards N. E. 
 Louisville Farm. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 3-B, Map 
 of Chambley 5-6 XXXIII-13. 
 
 Private Lemos was on scout duty 
 with his company when a high 
 explosive shell hit him killing 
 him instantly. He had been 
 with the regiment but a short 
 time, this battle being his first 
 engagement. 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. Matilda 
 Salmis, Kerrville, Texas. 
 
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 Private Company C 
 
 Killed at St, Mihiel Sector, Sep- 
 tember 16, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 2-E, Map 
 of Chambley 5-6 XXXIII-13. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert 
 Wolcott, Schafer, North Dakota. 
 
 Private Wolcott was on scout 
 duty with his company and was 
 carrying a wounded man off the 
 field to the rear when he was hit 
 in the spine by a machine gun 
 bullet and instantly killed. He 
 had served with the regiment at 
 Lorraine, Champagne and Cha- 
 teau Thierry. 
 
 Private Company E 
 
 Died September 16, 1918 at 
 Evacuation Hospital No. 65. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 5, Anson- 
 ville. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay W. 
 Anderson, Liberty, Miss. 
 
 Private Anderson was seriously 
 wounded September 13th, south 
 of Essey in the St. Mihiel Ad- 
 vance. 
 
 He had joined the company just 
 before the engagement and this 
 was his first great battle. 
 
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 Private Company E 
 
 Died September 16, 1918 in 
 Evacuation Hospital No. 1. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Dora Boyce, Pied- 
 mont, South Carolina. 
 
 Private Boyce was severely 
 w^ounded, south of Benney, 
 France in the St. Mihiel Drive. 
 He had just come to the com- 
 pany but ten days before and 
 this was his first great battle. 
 
 BLOODWORTH, JOHN W. 
 
 Private Company G 
 
 Died September 22, 1918 at 
 Evacuation Hospital No. 12. 
 
 Private Bloodworth came to this 
 regiment from the Texas Na- 
 tional Guard. Soon after he 
 joined the company we entered 
 the St. Mihiel Drive, where on 
 the morning of the 22nd, during 
 a raid on enemy positions he 
 was wounded by shrapnel. He 
 lived only a short time after he 
 reached the hospital. 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. Bessie 
 Crom, Springfield, Tenn. 
 
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 Private Company G 
 
 Killed September 22, 1918 at St. 
 Mihiel. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 2-1, Map of 
 Chambley, 
 
 Son of Mrs. M. Saylor, Green- 
 ville, Pa. 
 
 Though he had only been with 
 the regiment a short time Saylor 
 had proved himself to be a great 
 leader of men. 
 
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 Buried in Grave No. 3-A 
 of Chambley. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Stat- 
 terfield, Bruce, North Carolina. 
 
 Private Statterfield was killed 
 instantly by a shell fragment 
 while defending his post in the 
 front line. 
 
 From the time he joined Com- 
 pany A until the reduction of 
 the salient at St. Mihiel, he 
 proved himself to be the type of 
 soldier that made the victory 
 not only possible, but certain. 
 
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BARNES, CHARLES H. 100220 
 Private Company B 
 Killed September 23, 1918 at 
 Haumont in the St. Mihiel sali- 
 ent. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 2-G, Map of 
 Chambley 5-6 XXXIII-13. 
 Private Barnes was wounded by 
 a high explosive while serving 
 in the front line near Haumont, 
 but stayed at his post until he 
 was struck a second time and 
 killed. 
 
 He was a member of the platoon 
 that was cited in the French 
 Divisional orders for action of 
 March 5, 1918. 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. Ed 
 Primes, Oelwein, Iowa. 
 Born March 28, 1889, Manches- 
 ter, Iowa. 
 
 JOHNSON, ERNEST G. 102075 
 
 Private Company K 
 
 Killed at St. Mihiel near Hau- 
 mont Farm, September 23, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 2-J, Map of 
 Chambley 5-6 XXXIII-13. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. S. P. John- 
 son, Parsons, Kansas. 
 
 Private Johnson was killed by a 
 machine gun bullet while acting 
 as a stretcher bearer in regi- 
 mental patrol or raid on the 
 Haumont Farm. 
 
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 Private Company K 
 
 Died about September 23, 1918 
 at Base Hospital No. 36. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Leon- 
 ard, Corning, Iowa. 
 
 Private Leonard was wounded 
 during the attack on the St. 
 Mihiel salient and was taken to 
 the hospital where he died a few 
 days later. He had served with 
 the regiment in the Lorraine, 
 Champagne and Chateau 
 
 Thierry. 
 
 Born at Brooks, Iowa, May 25, 
 1895. 
 
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 Private Company B 
 
 Killed September 23, 1918 at St. 
 Mihiel. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 2-H, Cham- 
 bley 5-6 XXXIII-13. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. M. 
 Lewis, St. Antoniao, Texas. 
 
 Private Lewis was killed by a 
 high explosive shell while serv- 
 ing in the line, after the St. 
 Mihiel drive near Haumont. 
 
 He entered the service July 28, 
 1918 in the Texas National 
 Guard and came to this regi- 
 ment August 24, 1918. 
 
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 Corporal Company G 
 Died September 24, 1918 at Hos- 
 pitaL 
 
 Buried in Mars Hospital Center, 
 Mars - Sure - Allier, Neiver, 
 France. 
 
 Corporal Mueller was one of the 
 original men of Company G. 
 Every one who knew him held 
 him as a true friend. He had a 
 smile and cheerful word for all. 
 Corporal Mueller was severely 
 wounded on September 13th 
 while his platoon was attempting 
 to capture some Germans who 
 were retreating down a road. 
 Enemy machine guns opened fire 
 from our right flank. He was 
 taken to the hospital where he 
 died September 24th. 
 
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 Private Machine Gun Company 
 
 Killed September 24, 1918 at St. 
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 Buried in Grave No. 2-K, Map 
 of Chambley 5-6 XXXni-1-13. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. D. Belifore, 
 Rutland, Vermont. 
 
 Private Belifore was on gas 
 guard at St. Mihiel when he was 
 hit in the head by a piece of fly- 
 ing shell which killed him in- 
 stantly. He had served 
 throughout the Lorraine cam- 
 paign. Champagne and Chateau 
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 Private Company B 
 
 Killed September 24, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 4-A, Map 
 of Chambley XXXIII-13, 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas W. 
 Cobb, Cranesville, Pa. 
 
 After the drive at St. Mihiel 
 while his company was holding 
 the line, Private Cobb was 
 killed by a high explosive shell. 
 He had served with the regiment 
 in the Lorraine and Champagne 
 sectors. 
 
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 Private Company A 
 Killed at the St. Mihiel Front, 
 September 24, 1918. 
 Buried in Grave No. 4-C, Map 
 of Chambley, 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram 
 Bowen, Clarinton, Iowa. 
 
 During the trying days at Cham- 
 pagne and the bloody days thatf 
 followed at Chateau Thierry, Pri- 
 vate Bowen conducted himself 
 with the coolness of a veteran, 
 and well merited the commenda- 
 tion he received from his com- 
 manding officer. He was al- 
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 tense bombardment that started 
 shortly after the company had 
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 1487848 
 Private Company B 
 
 Killed September 24, 1918 at St. 
 Mihiel near Haumont. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 4-B, Map 
 of Chambley 5-6 XXXIII-13. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Steve 
 Moczygemba, Panna Maria, 
 Texas. 
 
 Private Moczygemba vvras killed 
 while on duty in the line near 
 Haumont in the St. Mihiel sa- 
 lient. He was transferred to this 
 regiment from the Texas Na- 
 tional Guard. 
 
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 RICKARD, LYLE G. 100060 
 
 Private Company A 
 Wounded on St. Mihiel Front 
 September 23rd, and died in 
 Base Hospital No. 51 September 
 26, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Belle Rickard, 
 Mason City, Iowa. 
 Private Rickard went through 
 with Company A during the oc- 
 cupation of the trenches in Lor- 
 raine, Champagne and Chateau 
 Thierry, and was fatally wound- 
 ed at St. Mihiel on September 
 23rd by shrapnel. He died later 
 in the hospital. Base No. 51. 
 Private Rickard refused to let 
 himself be bandaged until his 
 comrades had been properly 
 looked after, and in numerous 
 other little ways proved to be an 
 excellent soldier. 
 
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 Sergeant Company K 
 
 Died October 8, 1918 at Base 
 Hospital No, 9, Chateauroux 
 Indre. 
 
 Buried in Cemetery at Chateau- 
 roux Indre. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. O. M. 
 Swisher, Washington, Iowa. 
 
 During the attack on the St. 
 Mihiel saHent Sergeant Swisher 
 was wounded in the leg. He 
 was taken to the hospital where 
 he died a short time later. 
 
 He had served with the regi- 
 ment in Lorraine, Champagne 
 id Chateau Thierry. 
 
 LAMEY, EDMUND 3209420 
 
 Private Company I 
 
 Died at Evacuation Hospital No. 
 1 from the St. Mihiel Front. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert 
 Lamey, Dauphine Island, Ala. 
 
 Private Lamey came to France 
 as a casual and was assigned to 
 Company I, 168th Irifantry. He 
 was with the regiment in the 
 drive on the St. Mihiel salient. 
 While in service at the Bois de 
 Chatillon. he received 
 which proved fatal. 
 Lamey had a serious 
 toward his work and was always 
 striving to do his full share. 
 
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 Private Company A 
 
 Died in the hospital. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Dempsey 
 Haynes, Kenley, North Carolina. 
 
 Private Haynes joined Company 
 A the 27th of August and was 
 slightly wounded at St. Mihicl 
 and sent back to the hospital. 
 While at the hospital he con- 
 tracted pneumonia and died of 
 that disease shortly after. 
 
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THE regiment after its work on the St. Mihiel front, rested only a few 
 days in the territory which it had conquered. The movement then 
 was to be westward, into the battle of battles, in the wooded hills of 
 the Argonne. One day's march from the resting place brought us almost 
 back to the old trench line, and there we were hastily loaded aboard 
 trucks and in one night's seemingly endless ride, we landed near the 
 town of Deuxnouds-debant-Beauzee, just to the west of Verdun. Here 
 we bivouaced for a few nights, and again took up the move into the line 
 of battle. Two days march placed us south of that historic city of Mont- 
 faucon, in the woods that bear its name. Here amid shell holes, shattered 
 trunks of trees and the debris of battle, we pitched our shelter tents and 
 rested as only tired men rest. This stop was short. We moved forward 
 past the town of Montfaucon, westward to Epinonville, through the village 
 of Eclise Fontaine and the valley of River Exermont. Brief was the time 
 to grasp the situation. Forward into the fight we moved, and relieved the 
 famous and battle-scarred First Division, which had been doing battle 
 with the enemy. Here we entered upon the first phase of the most try- 
 ing battle throvighout the term of war. Of this battle nothing would add 
 to the ccmmendation given by the General commanding the Fifth Army 
 Corps of the American Expeditionary Forces to the 84th Infantry Brigade, 
 of which this regiment is a part: 
 
 HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY CORPS. 
 
 American Expeditionary Forces 
 
 France, 26 October, 1918. 
 
 From: Comanding General, V Army Corps. 
 
 To: Commanding General 42nd Division U. S. 
 
 Subject: Service of 42nd Division with V Army Corps. 
 
 The 84th Infantry Brigade: 
 
 This Brigade, under the command of Brigadier General Douglas 
 MacArthur, has manifested the highest soldierly qualities and has 
 rendered service of the greatest value during the present operations. 
 With a dash, courage and a fighting spirit worthy of the best tradi- 
 tions of the American Army, this Brigade carried by assault the 
 strongly fortified Hill 288 on the Kriemhilde, Stellung and un- 
 ceasingly pressed its advance until it had captured the Tuilerie Ferme 
 and the Bois de Chatillon, thus placing itself at least a kilometer 
 beyond the enemy's strong line of resistance. During this advance 
 the enemy fought with unusual determination 
 with a first class division and in many cases 
 resorted to hand to hand fighting when our 
 troops approached his rear. The conduct of ,^^ 
 this Brigade has reflected honor upon the Divi- 
 sion, the Army and the States from which the 
 Regiments came. 
 
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 Major General Commanding. 
 
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That the victory we won was possible ; that the commendation we 
 received was due us ; that the strong line of resistance was broken, was 
 through the heroic work of all, both the living and the dead. We record, 
 in this memorial, the names of our dead that the world may know our 
 appreciation of their comradeship, and as an acknowledgment of their 
 heroic deeds. 
 
 Today there lies resting among the pinnacled hills between Exer- 
 mont and Landres St. George our contribution to that gigantic struggle ; 
 there we left them amid a grandeur of towering hills and steep ravines. 
 Unsurpassed in beauty will be their resting place, when nature has kindly 
 healed her wounds from passing Armies. 
 
 Unsurpassed was their glorious death upon the steep and wooded 
 slopes of Hill 288 and the Cote de Chatillon, and unparalleled were the 
 difficulties they overcome, the heroic feats they accomplished; always face 
 to face with an enemy who in desperation was fighting as he never fought 
 before, and proudly I write here that facing that enemy they died. 
 
 Time may fill the minds of the living with many thoughts, but will 
 never erase from our memory the names, the acts, or the gallant work 
 of the men whose names are herein inscribed. 
 
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 NIESWIADOMY, WALTER 
 
 1487619 
 Private Company B 
 
 Killed October 10, 1918, at the 
 Argonne Forest near Montfau- 
 con. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 2, Map of 
 Montfaucon. 
 
 Private Nieswiadomy was killed 
 on the road near Montfaucon. 
 
 He enlisted October 5, 1917, in 
 the Texas National Guard, joined 
 the 168th regiment at St. Mihiel. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Nies- 
 wiadomy, Chappel, Texas. 
 
 LOETZ, THEODORE H. 102234 
 Sergeant Company L 
 Died October 9, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Loetz, 
 Sioux City, Iowa. 
 
 In Sergeant Loetz, Company L 
 had a man who was always cool, 
 fearless and aggressive in the 
 face of the enemy. He played 
 an important role in the Capture 
 of Hill 212. 
 
 He was sent to the Army Candi- 
 dates' School for commission, 
 but was taken ill and died of 
 pneumonia in a hospital. 
 Sergeant Loetz had many friends 
 in the regiment. 
 
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 Corporal Company B 
 
 Killed October 11, 1918, at Ar- 
 gonne Forest near Montfaucon. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 2-A, Map 
 of Montfaucon. 
 
 Relative's address — Mrs. J. P. 
 Bernicker, Nevada, Iowa. 
 
 Private Polton was killed by 
 shrapnel on the road near Mont- 
 faucon, 
 
 He had served with the regi- 
 ment in Lorraine, Champagne, 
 Sergy and the St. Mihiel Drive. 
 
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 Private Company B 
 
 Killed October 11, 1918, during 
 the Argonne Forest drive. 
 
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 faucon. 
 
 Private Arnold was killed by 
 shrapnel while on the march 
 near Montfaucon. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Susan Arnold, Ge- 
 neva, Texas. 
 
 Came to the regiment as a re- 
 placement from the Texas Na. 
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 Private Company B 
 
 Wounded on October 11, 1918, 
 and died in hospital. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Mattie Abegg, Des 
 Moines, Iowa. 
 
 Private Abegg was wounded by 
 bursting shapnel on the road 
 near Montfaucon and died later 
 in the hospital. 
 
 As a runner for the First Pla- 
 toon, Private Abegg carried mes- 
 sages thru several barrages and 
 kept up liason under heavy fire. 
 He served with the regiment in 
 Lorraine, Champagne, Chateau 
 Thierry and St. Mihiel. 
 
 JOHNSON, C. R. 246981 
 
 Private Company B 
 
 Killed in the Argonne Forest 
 near Montfaucon. 
 
 Buried Ocober 12, 1918, in 
 Grave No. 2-D, Map of Mont- 
 faucon. 
 
 Private Johnson was killed by 
 shrapnel on the road near Mont- 
 faucon. 
 
 He served with the regiment in 
 all their previous campaigns. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey 
 Johnson, Waterford, Pa. 
 
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 Private Company B 
 
 Killed October 11, 1918, in the 
 Argonne Forrest. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 208, Map 
 of Kreimhilde, Stellung. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Estep Lint, 
 Perryopolis, Pa. 
 
 Private Lint was killed by shrap- 
 nel. 
 
 He entered the service May 26, 
 1918, in the National Army and 
 w^as transferred to Company B, 
 September, 1918. 
 
 WILKENSON, GEORGE W. 99890 
 Sergeant Company A 
 Killed October 14th, at Hill 288, 
 Argonne Forest. 
 Buried in Grave No. 2-39, Map 
 of Kreimhilde, Stellung. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry 
 Wilkenson, Winterset, Iowa. 
 Sergeant Wilkenson was wound- 
 ed July 28th and sent back to 
 the hospital. Altho his wound 
 still bothered him, he returned 
 to the regiment six weeks later. 
 During the offensive on Oct. 14th 
 he displayed remarkable hero- 
 ism and courage. He charged 
 and captured three machine gun 
 nests, which reduced his platoon 
 to one-half its number. He un- 
 hesitatingly gave his life in per- 
 sonally charging and capturing 
 a fourth machine gun nest. 
 
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 Private Company D 
 
 Killed October 14, 1918, at the 
 Argonne near Hill 288. 
 
 Private Pittman was killed by a 
 high explosive shell on the morn- 
 ing of the first advance in the 
 Argonne. 
 
 He had served with the regiment 
 in the St. Mihiel Drive. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. D. Pitt- 
 man, Brockton, Ala. 
 
 BENGE, HAROLD W. 
 
 Private Company A 
 
 Private Benge was wounded on 
 October 14, 1918, and died from 
 wounds on October 27th, He 
 was hit by a shell while going 
 over the top in a support wave. 
 Borne May 20, 1901. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Bertha Benge, Des 
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 CRAWFORD, LYNN 99915 
 
 Corporal Company A 
 
 Wounded on October 14th in 
 the Argonne. Buried at Fleury 
 Sur Airs. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. 
 Crawford, Chapin, Iowa. 
 
 Corporal Crawford was with the 
 company in the trenches at Lor- 
 raine and at Champagne, where 
 he was wounded by a shell in 
 the hand and sent to the hos- 
 pital. He returned shortly and 
 escaped unhurt during the re- 
 duction of the St. Mihiel salient. 
 Corporal Crawford was fatally 
 wounded in the attack on Hill 
 288, and died a short time later 
 a base hospital. 
 
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 MAYNARD, THOMAS A. 1855699 
 
 Private Company E 
 
 Killed October 14, 1918, on Hill 
 No. 269 east of Exermont. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 2-3, Map 
 of Kreimhilde, Stellung. 
 
 Private Maynard joined the 
 company shortly before the St. 
 Mihiel Drive and had gone/ 
 throughout that engagement ( 
 bravely. 
 
 He was a good soldier who faith- 
 fully discharged all the duties 
 assigned to him. 
 
 Relative's address — Annie May 
 Maynard, Castalian Springs, 
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 Sergeant Company E 
 
 Killed October 14, 1918, on the 
 reverse slope of Hill 288. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 1-20, Map 
 of Kreimhilde, Stellung. 
 
 Relative's address — Mrs. Jennie 
 Burns, Bloomfield, Colo. 
 
 Sergeant Walton was regarded 
 as one of Company E's finest 
 men and best soldiers. He had 
 made a brilliant record in the 
 Lorraine, Champagne and Cha- 
 teau Thierry. His loss was 
 greatly felt by his many com- 
 rades and friends. 
 
 MINER, HAROLD 99753 
 
 Private Machine Gun Co. 
 
 Killed October 14, 1918, in the 
 Argonne Forest. 
 
 Buried in the Argonne. 
 
 Private Miner while advancing 
 with his squad was struck by a 
 machine gun bullet, which killed 
 him instantly. i ^ 
 
 He had been thru the Lorraine '\' I 
 Campaign, Champagne, Cha- 
 teau Thierry and the St. Mihiel 
 Drive. ;Ni} 
 
 Born at Olin, Iowa, October 25, 
 1896. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Miner, 
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 CONAWAY, EARL T. 99359 
 
 Corporal Headquarters Co. 
 Killed October 14, 1918, at the 
 Argonne. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 1-16, Map 
 of Kreimhilde, Stellung. 
 Corporal Conaway was a mem- 
 ber of the Stokes Mortar Pla- 
 toon and was back of the front 
 line waiting for orders to move. 
 A shell burst nearby a group of 
 men, which killed two, one of 
 which was Conaway, and se- 
 riously wounding another. 
 Corporal Conaway was cheerful 
 and painstaking in all he did 
 and showed marked devotion to 
 duty. 
 
 He was a civil engineer in civil 
 life. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Con- 
 away, Tabor, Iowa. 
 
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 SCRIVNOR, J. D. 1487461 
 
 Private Company B 
 
 Killed October 14, 1918, at Ar- 
 gonne Forest. 
 
 Relative's address — Mrs. Annie 
 
 Howell, Austin, Teaxs. 
 
 Private Scrivnor enlisted July 
 21, 1917, in the Texas National 
 Guard and was transferred to B 
 Company August 24, 1918. 
 
 During the St. Mihiel drive he 
 displayed great courage and on 
 the way to the Argonne was 
 always helping others. 
 
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 LOCKE, ROBERT T. 
 
 99299 
 
 McFADDEN, LEO P. 99429 
 
 Private Headquarters Co. 
 Killed October 14th at the Ar- 
 gonne. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 1-24, Map 
 of Kreimhilde, Stellung. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Mc- 
 Fadden, Storm Lake, Iowa. 
 Private McFadden had just re- 
 turned from the hospital to 
 which he had been sent on ac- 
 count of sickness, just in time 
 to go into the Argonne. He met 
 his death while waiting orders 
 to take up the Stoke Mortar 
 guns. A shell burst in the midst 
 of a number of men, which 
 killed him instantly. 
 Private McFadden was always 
 well liked and willing to do more 
 than his share of the work. 
 
 Private Headquarters Co. 
 
 Wounded October 14th and died 
 in Field Hospital No. 165.. 
 
 Private Locke was a member of 
 the Stokes Mortar Platoon. He 
 with the other members, were 
 back of the front line awaiting 
 orders to bring up the guns. 
 
 They were joking, heedless of 
 the shells that were going over 
 their heads at random, when one 
 struck almost in their midst. 
 
 Private Locke had both legs 
 blown off and died soon after 
 reaching the hospital. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. F. R. 
 Locke, Hartley, Iowa. 
 
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 WEBSTER, FRANCIS H. 99712 
 Corporal Machine Gun Company 
 Killed in the Argonne, October 
 14th. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 2-1, Map of 
 Kreimhilde, Stellung. 
 Corporal Webster was hit in the 
 chest by a piece of high explo- 
 sive shell, dying almost instantly. 
 He was one of the most popular 
 members of the company and 
 had many friends thruout the 
 regiment. 
 
 Webster was a cartoonist and 
 had drawn many cartoons of in- 
 cidents in his trench warfare ex- 
 periences. 
 
 Graduate of Maquoketa High 
 School. 
 
 Had his B. A. Degree from Des 
 /OVloines College. 
 /Son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. 
 O ^Webster, Central City, Iowa. 
 
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 Private Machine Gun Co. 
 
 Killed in Argonne Forest Octo- 
 ber 14, 1918. 
 
 Buried at the foot of Hill 288, 
 marked with a cross. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Jasper 
 Newton, Waseca, Minn. 
 
 Private Newton was advancing 
 with his squad when he was 
 struck with a machine gun bul- 
 let and died a few hours later. 
 He had served thruout the Lor- 
 raine Campaign, Champagne 
 Chateau Thierry, St. Mihiel. 
 
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 Private Company D 
 
 Killed Ocober 14, near Hill 288. 
 Buried in Grave No. 2-6, Map 
 Kreimhilde, Stellung, in "Bois 
 de Money." 
 
 Relative's address — Richard 
 Healey, West Medford, Mass. 
 
 Private Lawler was hit by a high 
 explosive in the advance on Hill 
 288 and was killed instantly. 
 
 He came as a replacement in 
 August, 1918, and had made an 
 excellent record in the St. 
 Mihiel Drive. 
 
 MARTIN, JOHN J. 307201 
 
 Private Company D 
 
 Killed October 14, 1918, in Ar- 
 gonne. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 2-14, Map 
 Kreimhilde, Stellung. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Bridget Martin, 
 Hazelwood, Pa. 
 
 Private Martin was acting as a 
 stretcher bearer in the Argonne 
 Battle and was killed by an ex- 
 ploding shell while carrying a 
 comrade to the first aid station. 
 
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 Private Company D 
 
 Killed October 14, 1918, in Ar- 
 gonne. 
 
 Private Kington was killed by a 
 high explosive shell on the ad- 
 vance towards Hill 288. 
 
 He had made a splendid record 
 at St. Mihiel. 
 
 Private Kington came as a re- 
 placement in August, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward 
 D. Kington, Madison, North 
 Carolina. 
 
 
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 GIBBONS, MICHAEL 2719681 
 
 Private Company D 
 
 Killed near Hill 288 in Argonne 
 Forest on October 14, 1918. 
 Buried in Grave No. 2-28, Map 
 of Kreimhilde, Stellung. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas 
 Gibbons, Wakefield. Mass. 
 
 Private Gibbons was instantly 
 killed by a high explosive shell 
 while advancing up Hill 288. 
 
 Private Gibbons came to the 
 168th Infantry as a replacement 
 just a short time before his 
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 Sergeant Company D 
 
 Killed October 14, 1918, in Ar- 
 gonnc. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 2-25, Map 
 of Kreimhilde, Stellung. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. 
 Gray, Amana, Iowa. { 
 
 Sergeant Gray was leading his 
 platoon in the advance when he 
 was hit by machine gun bullets 
 and killed. 
 
 In the trenches in Lorraine Ser- 
 geant Gray showed great brav- 
 ery and exceptional ability as a 
 leader of men and received 
 rapid promotion. 
 
 DYE, TRAMBLE 3210222 
 
 Private Company D 
 
 Killed in the Argonne Forest 
 October 14th. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 2-15, Map 
 of Kreimhilde, Stellung. 
 
 Private Dye was a member of 
 the First Battalion Scouts. 
 
 He was killed by machine gun 
 fire in the advance on Hill 288. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Dye. 
 Elba, Alabama. 
 
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 Private Company E 
 
 Killed October 14, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Mary Lisle, Perry, 
 Iowa. 
 
 Buried in Commune of Gesnes 
 near River Meuse, France. 
 
 Private Lisle ^N2iS killed by a 
 high explosive shell, while ad- 
 vancing on Hill No. 288. 
 
 
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 GREEN, LEE A. 101219 
 
 Private Company F 
 
 Killed at Argonne Forest near 
 Hill 288, October 14, 1918. 
 Buried near where he fell. 
 
 Private Green was asleep in his 
 dug-out on the side of the hill, 
 when a German shell lit directly 
 at his feet, nearly blowing off 
 one leg. The shock was too 
 great and he died while he was*^ 
 being carried to the ambulance. 
 Private Green was liked by 
 everyone and was a first class 
 soldier. 
 
 His wonderful nerve was com- 
 mented on by his surgeon. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A 
 Green, Clarinda, Iowa. 
 
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 EDWARD J. 99765 
 
 Private First Class, 
 
 Machine Gun Co. 
 
 Killed October 15, 1918, in the 
 Argonne Woods. 
 
 Buried in the Argonne Forest. 
 Private Voss was hit in the side 
 by a spray of machine gun bul- 
 lets, while he was assisting his 
 corporal in getting a machine 
 gun ready for action. He lived 
 for about two hours. 
 
 Private Voss had served thruout 
 the Lorraine Campaign, Cham- 
 pagne, Chateau Thierry and St. 
 Mihiel. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Voss 
 Pomeroy, Iowa. 
 
 WALL, JOSEPH W. 3993417 
 
 Private Company F 
 
 Killed October 14th in Argonne 
 Forest. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 1-22, Map 
 of Kreimhilde, Stellung. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Wall, 
 Selma, North Carolina. 
 
 Private Wall had dug his fox- 
 hole on the night of October 
 14th, and was asleep when a 
 German shell lit directly at his 
 feet and killed him instantly. 
 
 He was one of the last replace- 
 ments to join the regiment. 
 
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 Private Company C 
 
 Killed October 15th, in the Ar- 
 gonne Forest near Bois de 
 Chatillon. 
 
 Private Savoy, with his com- 
 pany, were getting ready to at- 
 tack and he was kneeling behind 
 some bushes waiting for the 
 order to go forward. A high 
 explosive shell hit him, killing 
 him instantly. 
 
 He had been wounded at Cha- 
 teau Thierry and was in the 
 hospital from July 26th to Oc- 
 tober 5th. 
 
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 SCOTT, LELAND D. 99843 
 
 Corporal Machine Gun Co. 
 
 Killed October 15th, during the 
 gonne advance. 
 
 Buried in the Argonne Forest. 
 
 Emergency address, C. A. 
 Thompson, Morning Sun, Iowa. 
 
 Corporal Scott was shot in the 
 leg. Richards went over to bind 
 up his wound and while so do- 
 ing, Scott was hit again in the 
 top of the head and killed. 
 
 Scott was working with his 
 squad getting a machine gun 
 ready for action. 
 
 Emergency address, Chas. 
 relies, Chicago, Illinois. 
 
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 Private Company A 
 Killed at the Argonne Forest 
 near Hill 288, Otcober 15, 1918. 
 Buried in Grave No. 2-31, Map 
 of Kriemhilde Stellung. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis 
 Creasey, Beaver, W. Va. 
 
 During the offensive operations 
 in the Argonne Private Creasey 
 served as a stretcher bearer. This 
 is work that requires that a man 
 be strong, brave and fearless and 
 all of these qualities belonged to 
 Pvt. Creasey. It v^as on Hill 288 
 that this brave soldier paid the 
 supreme sacrifice while search- 
 ing for wounded comrades under 
 cover of darkness. The morn- 
 ing light revealed his body 
 where he had fallen. 
 
 BELL, WILLIAM Z. E. 1351191 
 
 Private Company C 
 
 Killed October 15, 1918, in Ar- 
 gonne Forest near "Bois de Cha- 
 tillon." 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 2-33 Map of 
 Kriemhilde Stellung. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Zulu Bell, Route C, 
 Marianna, Fla. 
 
 Private Bell was bringing a litter 
 to carry a wounded man from 
 the field to the rear when he was 
 hit by a shell and killed instantly. 
 
 He had served with the regiment 
 in the Chateau Thierry drive 
 and was in the fight at St 
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 Private Company A 
 Killed near Hill 288, October 15, 
 1918. 
 
 Private Galligher was a member 
 of the automatic ritle squad on 
 account of his great courage. In 
 the Argonne Private Galligher 
 was in an outpost far in advance 
 of his company. All day long, 
 without food or rest, he had been 
 spraying the German lines with 
 a withering fire. When dark- 
 ness fell, the enemy attempted 
 to locate him, for his ceaseless 
 fire had caused many casualties, 
 by shooting up flare rockets. 
 One of these hit Private Gal- 
 ligher in the stomach, burning 
 him to death. 
 
 LAMB, RANDOLPH 2790567 
 
 Private Company A 
 Killed at Argonne Forest Octo- 
 ber 20, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 2-27, Mar> 
 of Kriemhilde, Stellung. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Stella Lamb, Yon- 
 kers, N. Y. 
 
 Just before entering the Argonne 
 Woods Private Lamb was se- 
 lected as a htter bearer. The hfe 
 of a litter bearer in action is one 
 of constant exposure to shell and 
 machine gun fire. Yet Private 
 Lamb constantly disregarding his 
 own safety rescued his wounded 
 comrades and carried them back 
 to a place of safety. He was hit, 
 while doing this, and instantly 
 killed by a shell fragment. 
 
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 Private Company B 
 
 Killed October 15th at Argonne. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 2-11, Map 
 of Kriemhilde Stellung. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Mary Parrish, 
 Waterloo, Iowa. 
 
 Private Parrish was killed by a' 
 high explosive shell while in a 
 shell hole at Hill 288. 
 
 He was a good soldier and was 
 loved and respected by all who 
 knew him. Private Parrish 
 was with the regiment in Lor- 
 raine, Champagne, Chateau 
 Thierry and St. Mihiel. 
 
 SHARP, LESTER W. 
 
 1486576 
 
 Private Machine Gun Company 
 
 Killed October 15, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. 
 Sharp, Chandler, Oklahoma. 
 
 Private Sharp was advancing in 
 the Argonne with his squad, 
 when he was hit by a piece of 
 shell, which killed him in- 
 stantly. He had been on the St. 
 Mihiel Drive and this was his 
 second campaign. 
 
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 Private Company A 
 
 Killed October 15, 1918 at Ar- 
 gonne Forest. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. James 
 Nunnally, Homer, Georgia. 
 
 Private Nunnally was killed by a 
 high explosive shell while bring- 
 ing in the wounded. He had 
 been with the regiment at Cha- 
 teau Thierry and St. Mihiel. 
 
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 Private Company C 
 Killed at Argonne Forest, Octo- 
 ber 15th. 
 
 Buried in Bois de Chatillon. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. 
 Haggquist, Alston, Michigan. 
 
 Private Haggquist was kneeling 
 behind some bushes waiting for 
 ' the order to attack. A high ex- 
 plosive shell hit close to him 
 killing him instantly. 
 He was in the trenches with the 
 regiment in Lorraine, was in the 
 engagement at Champagne and 
 was in the battle at Chateau 
 Thierry near Sergy. 
 
 HIME, WILLIAM L. 
 
 1488156 
 
 Private Company C 
 
 Killed October 15th at Argonne. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hime, 
 Cain City, Texas. 
 
 Private Hime was kneeling be- 
 hind some bushes waiting to ad- 
 vance with the company when 
 he was hit by a high explosive 
 shell and killed almost instantly. 
 
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 Private Company C 
 Killed October 15th near Bois de 
 Chatillon. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 2-7 Map of 
 Kriemhilde Stellung. 
 Son of Mr, and Mrs. Ira Kieth, 
 Fola, West Virginia. 
 
 Private Kieth was acting as con- 
 necting file between two com- 
 panies as they advanced over 
 Hill 242. He was hit in the back 
 by shrapnel and killed instantly. 
 He had been with the regiment 
 but a short time, this being his 
 first engagement. 
 Born October 27, 1892, Fola, 
 !/Wi West Virginia. 
 
 MARTINEZ, MATEO 1487852 
 
 Private Company C 
 
 Killed October 15th at Argonne. 
 Buried in Bois de Chatillon. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Viola Martinez, 
 San Antonio, Texas. 
 
 Private Martinez was hit in the 
 back by a machine gun bullet 
 and died on the way to the hos- 
 pital. He was with the company f 
 and they were moving up to the , 
 front when he was hit. 
 
 He joined the regiment just be- 
 fore we entered the St. Mihiel ^^^^ 
 Sector and was in the drive at V\ 
 that front. 
 
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 Private Company H 
 
 Killed October 15, 1918 during 
 the Argonne operations. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 2, Argonne 
 Battle Field. 
 
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 Private First Class Company C 
 
 Killed October 16th at Argonne. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 1-13, Map 
 of Kriemhilde Stellung, 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs, Nels 
 Thompson, Jewell, Iowa. 
 
 Private Thompson was killed by 
 a machine gun bullet which 
 pierced his lung, killing him al- 
 most instantly. He had been 
 advancing with his company and 
 was firing an automatic rifle 
 when he was hit. 
 
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 GRAMLEY, JOHN J. 1486856 
 
 Private Machine Gun Company 
 
 Killed October 16, 1918 at Ar- 
 gonne Forest. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. 
 Gramley, Cresent, Oklahoma. 
 
 Private Gramley was advancing 
 with his squad in the Argonne 
 Forest, when he was hit in the 
 head with a machine gun bullet, 
 which killed him almost in- 
 stantly. 
 
 He had been in the St. Mihiel 
 advance and this was his second 
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 Corporal Company B 
 
 Killed October 16th at Cote de 
 Chatillon. 
 
 Son of Daniel May, Indianola, 
 Iowa. 
 
 Corporal May was killed by a | 
 gun shot while advancing with 
 his squad at Cote de Chatillon. 
 
 He was a sniper, observer and 
 intelligence worker. He was 
 very efficient and a good sol- Wj' 
 dier and a leader. 
 
 SATTLER, LAWRENCE J. 100336 
 
 Corporal Company B 
 
 Killed October 16th in Argonne 
 Forest. 
 
 Corporal Sattler was advancing 
 through the wire in the attack 
 on Cote de Chatillon in the Ar- 
 gonne Forest when he was killed 
 by a machine gun bullet. 
 
 He was in action with the regi- 
 ment in Lorraine, Champagne, 
 Sergy and St. Mihiel. 
 
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 Sergeant Company B 
 Killed October^ 16, 1918 at Cote 
 de Chatillon. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen 
 Marsh, Carlisle, Iowa. 
 Sergeant Marsh was killed by 
 machine gun fire in the attack on 
 Cote de Chatillon while leading 
 a platoon in a daring dash across 
 open ground swept by machine 
 gun fire. He was a soldier of 
 the highest type and served his 
 company efficiently as "gas" 
 sergeant. 
 
 Sergeant Marsh was a member 
 of the Second Platoon in the raid 
 on March 5th, for which action 
 the platoon was cited in the Or- 
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 POUCH, HAROLD R. 
 
 First Lieutenant Company B 
 Died October 16, 1918. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. 
 Pouch, New York City. 
 
 Lieutenant Pouch, after leading 
 his platoon over difficult ground 
 in the capture of Hill 288, was 
 advancing to attack Cote de 
 Chatillon when he was mortally ( 
 wounded in the side by a ma- \\ 
 chine gun bullet. When he 
 reached the first aid station he ( 
 still held the pistol in his hand. 
 He died the following day. 
 In the St. Mihiel drive Lieuten- 
 ant Pouch showed highly effi- 
 cient command of a platoon 
 while holding the line. 
 
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 HANSEN, PETER G. 100176 
 
 Corporal Company B 
 
 Killed October 16, 1918 at Cote 
 de Chatillon. 
 
 During preparations for the at- 
 tack on Cote de Chatillon, Cor- 
 poral Hansen was mortally 
 wounded by a machine gun 
 bullet. L 
 
 He had served with the regiment 
 in Lorraine, Champagne, Cha- 
 teau Thierry and St. Mihicl. 
 
 Relative's address: J. C. Jensen, 
 Greenfield, Iowa. 
 
 HARVEY, NATHAN C. 
 
 100107 
 
 Mechanic Company B 
 
 Killed October 16th at Cote de 
 Chatillon. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Lucy L. Harvey, 
 Greenville, Iowa. 
 
 Mechanic Harvey was killed by 
 a high explosive shell in the Cote 
 de Chatillon, while acting as a 
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 First Lieutenant Company H 
 Killed October 16th at Argonne. 
 Buried, Grave No. 1, Kriem- 
 hilde Stellung. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Nel- 
 son, Ottumwa, Iowa. 
 Lieutenant Nelson, after being 
 wounded at Chateau Thierry 
 refused to be taken to the hos- 
 pital and remained in command 
 of Company G. He was recom- 
 mended for the D. S. C. for this 
 act of courage. During the Ar- 
 gonne operations he was ordered 
 to the hospital on account of 
 severe illness, but refused to 
 leave his company. Company H, 
 at this critical time. He was 
 killed while leading his company 
 against Hill No. 288, by machine 
 gun bullet. 
 
 
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 GILLETT. ROBERT F. 
 
 Private Company B 
 
 Killed October 16, 1918 at Cote 
 de Chatillon. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Gillett, 
 Mathis, Texas. 
 
 Private Gillett was killed in the 
 attack on Cote de Chatillon. He 
 was in the St. Mihiel Drive. 
 
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 1485535 
 
 Private Company B 
 
 Killed at Cote de Chatillon, 
 October 16, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Stol- 
 leis, Cuero, Texas. 
 
 Private Stolleis was killed by a 
 machine gun bullet while ad- 
 vancing near a hedge at Cote de 
 Chatillon in the Argonne Forest. 
 
 SHAWALT. WILLIAM 302230 
 
 Private Company B 
 
 Killed at Argonne, October 16, 
 1918. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Sha- 
 walt, Moon Run, Pennsylvania. 
 
 Private Shawalt was killed in the 
 attack on Cote de Chatillon while 
 giving first aid to a comrade. 
 
 He had a reputation in the Bat- 
 talion as a good boxer and in 
 service he had done excellent 
 work as a stretcher bearer. 
 
 Born in Moon Run, Pennsyl- 
 vania, April 30, 1892. 
 
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PINSON, JOE E. 1487862 
 
 Private Company C 
 Died October 16, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Mae Adair, Austin, 
 Texas. 
 
 Private Pinson received gun shot 
 wounds in the advance near the 
 Argonne Forest and was taken to 
 a field hospital where he died 
 later. 
 
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 PETERSON. CARL E. 302690 
 
 Private Company C 
 
 Killed at the Argonne Forest. 
 October 16, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Ellen 
 Onekama, Michigan. 
 
 Private Peterson was advancing 
 with his company near Hill 288 
 when he was hit in the head by 
 a machine gun bullet and killed 
 instantly. He was helping to 
 operate an automatic rifle when 
 hit. 
 
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 Private Company C 
 
 Killed at the Argonne Forest, 
 October 16th. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. John 
 Owens, Westminster, South 
 Carolina. 
 
 Private Owens was with his 
 company advancing between Hill 
 242 and Hill 288. He was hit 
 in the head by a machine gun 
 bullet and killed instantly. 
 
 He had served with the regiment 
 at St. Mihiel. 
 
 NICLEY. BERT A. 1568919 
 
 Private Company C 
 Killed October 16, 1918 at Ar- 
 gonne Forest. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 2-41, near 
 Hill 288, Map of Kriemhilde 
 Stellung. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. David 
 Nicley, Advance, Indiana. 
 
 Private Nicley was killed in the xl I 
 charge on Hill 288. He was hit * ' 
 through the body by machine 
 gun bullets and died a few min- 
 utes later. 
 
 He was with the regiment in the 
 Lorraine Sector, Champagne and 
 was wounded at Chateau 
 Thierry. 
 
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 Private Company C 
 
 Killed October 16, 1918 near Hill 
 242. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 2-40, Map 
 of Kriemhilde Stellung. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Mesa. 
 Montecito, California. 
 
 Private Mesa was killed in the 
 advance during the Argonne 
 operations. 
 
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 HERBEL, GEORGE A. 100497 
 
 Private Company C 
 
 Killed October 16, 1918 at Ar- 
 gonne. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Anna Herbel, Cres- 
 ton, Iowa. 
 
 Private Herbel was killed in the 
 charge on Hill 288. A machine 
 gun bullet hit him in the head 
 and his death was instantaneous. 
 He was with the regiment in 
 Lorraine, Champagne, Chateau 
 Thierry and St. Mihiel. He was 
 gassed in Lorraine and was in 
 the hospital from May 29th to 
 June 3rd. 
 
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 BAKER, WILLIAM A. 3275785 
 
 Private Company A 
 Killed at Hill 288 October 16, 
 1918. 
 
 Buried Grave No. 2-30, Map of 
 Kriemhilde Stellung. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry T. 
 Baker, Lamotte, Iowa. 
 During the battle for Hill 288, 
 Private Baker v^ras detailed as a 
 litter bearer, and he displayed 
 great personal courage in his 
 care for the v^rounded. He 
 worked unceasingly carrying his 
 wounded companions to the 
 dressing stations. 
 While doing his duty he was 
 struck by a high explosive and 
 killed almost instantly. 
 
 BURKE, JOHN 1105 
 
 Sergeant Sanitary Detachment 
 Wounded October 16, 1918. 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. P. F. 
 Burke, Des Moines, Iowa. 
 
 Sergeant Burke was appointed 
 Corporal Medical Department, 
 April, 1917. He was appointed 
 Sergeant on January, 1918 and 
 was on duty with the regiment 
 during all the engagements up 
 to October 16th, on which date 
 he was severely wounded by a 
 high explosive. He was sent to 
 S. O. S. Hospital and was im- 
 proving rapidly when pneumonia 
 set in together with pleurisy and 
 he died on November 9th. 
 
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 AUSTIN, WILLIAM S. 3282885 
 
 Private Company A 
 Killed at Hill 288, October 16, 
 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 2-32, Map 
 of Kriemhilde Stellung. 
 Son of Mrs. Daisy Austin, Union. 
 South Carolina. 
 
 Private Austin was assigned to a 
 litter bearer's squad v^rhere he 
 continuously worked under 
 heavy shell fire, taking care of 
 the wounded and assisting them 
 to aid stations. 
 
 During the Battle of Hill 288 on 
 October 16th, while searching 
 for a wounded comrade, he was 
 instantly killed by a high explos- 
 ve. He died like a true soldier. 
 doing his duty. 
 
 FARRADAY, JOHN, JR. 1780848 
 
 Private Company C 
 
 Killed October 16th at Argonne. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Far- 
 raday, Frostburg, Maryland. 
 
 Private Farraday was advancing 
 over Hill 242 with his platoon 
 when he was hit by a high ex- 
 plosive shell and killed instantly. 
 
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 Private Company C 
 
 
 Killed October 16, 1918, at Ar- 
 
 
 gonne Forest. 
 
 
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 Son of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Baker. 
 Kerrville. Texas. 
 
 Private Baker was crossing an 
 open space during the attack and 
 was directly exposed to the en- 
 emy's fire. A machine gun bul- 
 let pierced his stomach and he 
 died a few moments later. 
 
 Born September 4, 1896. 
 
 CRAIG, LEROY 2252188 
 
 Private Company C 
 
 Killed October 16, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. William 
 Craig, Columbus, Kansas. 
 
 Private Craig was killed during 
 the Argonne operations. 
 
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 BUTCHER, WALTER D. 3635376 
 
 Private Company C 
 
 Killed October 16, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. John 
 Butcher, Parkersburg, W. Va. 
 
 Pvt, Butcher was advancing with 
 his company between Hill 242 
 and Hill 288 when he was hit 
 under the arm near the heart and 
 killed instantly. 
 
 He was with the regiment in the 
 St. Mihiel Drive. 
 
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 Private Company C 
 
 Killed October 16, 1918. 
 
 Private Burroughs was advanc- 
 ing with his company between 
 Hill 242 and Hill 288 and was 
 hit in the head by a machine 
 gun bullet and instantly killed. 
 He had served with the regiment 
 at St. Mihiel. 
 
 Relative's address, Sallie Bur- 
 roughs, Bedford, Va. 
 
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 NELSON, EARL C. 
 
 101571 
 
 Sergeant Company H 
 
 Killed October 16. 1918, in the 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Nel- 
 son, Sioux City, Iowa. 
 
 Argonne. Sergeant Nelson was 
 killed during the taking of Tuil- 
 erie Farm, while urging his men 
 to the attack, with the words. 
 "Give 'em hell, boys." A ma- 
 chine gun bullet pierced his 
 heart, killing him instantly. 
 
 Born March 29. 1896. 
 
 ANGEL, LESTER 2857533 
 
 Private Company C 
 
 Killed at Argonne Forest. Octo- 
 ber 16, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave 2-38. Map of 
 Kriemhilde Stellung. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Angel, 
 Canton, 111. 
 
 Private Angel was with the com- 
 pany advancing between Hill 242 
 and Hill 288 when he was hit in 
 the heart by a machine gun bul- 
 let and killed instantly. 
 
 
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DILLA, LOUIS 1487823 
 
 Private Company C 
 
 Killed at Argonne Forest, Octo- 
 ber 16, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Dilla. 
 San Antonio. Texas. 
 
 Private Dilla was killed instantly 
 by a machine gun bullet as he 
 was advancing between Hill 242 
 and Hill 288. 
 
 He had served with the regiment 
 at St. Mihiel. 
 
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 Second Lieutenant Company H 
 
 Killed October 16, 1918, during 
 the Argonne operations. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. T, Gil- 
 lespie, Maysville, Ga. 
 
 Buried in Grave 2-28, Map of 
 Kriemhilde Stellung. 
 
 Lieiitenant Gillespie was killed 
 while leading his platoon against 
 Hill 288. 
 
 He had only been with the regi- 
 ment a short while but was well 
 liked by the men. 
 
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 KOHUTH, JOSEPH W. 246663 
 
 Private Company H 
 
 Killed during the Argonne op- 
 erations October 16, 1918. 
 
 Relative's address, Mary Lut- 
 sock, Gipsy, Pa. 
 
 Private Kohuth was killed by a 
 high explosive shell during the 
 Argonne operations. 
 
 DIXON, EARL C. 241936 
 
 Private Company H 
 
 Killed October 16, 1918, at Ar- 
 
 Son of Mrs. Anna Dixon, John- 
 ston. Pa. 
 
 Private Dixon was killed while 
 advancing up Hill 288. 
 
 
 
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 NORDMAN, GILBERT W. 302671 
 
 Private Company H 
 
 Killed at Argonne, October 16, 
 1918. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Jennie Nordman, 
 Duluth, Minn. 
 
 Private Nordman was killed dur- 
 ing the taking of Tuiliere Farm. 
 
 He was a member of the Auto- 
 matic Squad, which held its post 
 under very heavy machine gun 
 fire. 
 
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 HAWLEY, EDWARD 302502 
 
 Private Company E 
 
 Killed October 16, 1918 at Cote 
 de Chatillon. 
 
 Private Hawley came to the com- 
 pany in April, 1918, and served 
 throughout the Lorraine cam- 
 paign, Battle of Champagne, 
 Chateau Thierry, St. Mihiel and 
 was killed in the last battle of 
 the war. 
 
 He was known as an excellent 
 soldier and gained a high repu- 
 tation for character and honor. 
 
 Relative's address, Edith Hawley, 
 Manistee, Mich. 
 
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 TUSING, KAY 3168266 
 
 Private Company E 
 
 Killed October 16, 1918. 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. Effie 
 Canfield, Monroe, W. Va. 
 
 On the morning of the 16th of 
 October, volunteers were asked 
 for from Company E to aid in 
 the evacuating of wounded men. 
 
 Tusing volunteered and while 
 engaged in this task, was killed. 
 
 A brave soldier, who met his 
 death while performing a heroic 
 act. This was Tusing's first big 
 engagement, having joined the 
 company two weeks before his 
 death. 
 
 SIGNORETTA, MARTINI 3626755 
 
 Private Company E 
 
 Killed on the forward slope of 
 Hill 288, October 16. Buried in 
 
 Grave 2-43, Map of Kriemhilde 
 Stellung. 
 
 Private Signoretta had been with 
 the company but two weeks when m 
 he met his death in his first great i 
 battle. 
 
 Relative's address, Mary Vargata, 
 Sewickly, Pa. 
 
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 MADISON, JOHN 101002 
 
 Private Company E 
 
 Died in Field Hospital No. 165 
 October 16th. 
 
 Relative's address, George Ross, 
 McLeansboro, 111. 
 
 Private Madison was always a 
 good soldier and an expert auto- 
 matic rifle gunner. A whole- 
 hearted, courageous boy; and he 
 met his death in the last engage- 
 ment of the war. His loss was 
 keenly felt by all his comrades, 
 who respected him for his cour- 
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 CHAPAS, STANIS 194439 
 
 Private Company M 
 
 Killed October 16, at Argonne. 
 
 Buried in Grave 4-B, Map of 
 Kriemhilde Stellung. 
 
 Private Chapas was killed during 
 the advance through the Argonne 
 Forest. 
 
 Relative's address, Tom Korizler, 
 Glendale, Pa. 
 
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 McNAMARA, LEO P. 
 
 Lieutenant, former Sergeant 
 Company B 
 Killed October 16, 1918. 
 He was buried at Cunel, France. 
 
 Leo, after the Chateau Thierry 
 battle was sent to Officers' 
 Training School at Langres. He 
 received his commission as 2nd 
 Lieutenant the latter part of 
 September and assigned to duty 
 with the 5th Division, which he 
 joined the first week in October. 
 During the Argonne battle with 
 this division, he was killed, while 
 leading his platoon, on October 
 16th by machine gun fire. 
 Relative's address: P. L. Mc- 
 //' / -Namara, Ida Grove, Iowa. 
 
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 ESPY, CHARLES C. 
 
 Private Company D 
 
 Son of Mrs. Nancy Espy, Rural 
 Route No. 4, Centerville, Iowa. 
 
 Charles Espy was wounded in 
 the Argonne Drive and was sent 
 to base hospital No. 32. Espy 
 was wounded in the right arm 
 and lost a great deal of blood. 
 
 The shock of the exploding shell 
 and the loss of blood weakened 
 him so that he was unable to re- 
 cover. He died on the morning 
 of October 23, 1918 and was 
 buried in the cemetery of Base 
 Hospital No. 32. 
 
 
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 Corporal Company E 
 Died at Field Hospital No. 165, 
 October 17, 1918, 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. 
 Brandt, Postville, Iowa. 
 One of Company E's best sol- 
 diers. He always volunteered for 
 the most dangerous missions. 
 The final act of his life was of 
 such daring that his colonel rec- 
 ommended he be given the 
 Medal of Honor. He was 
 awarded the D. S. C. He volun- 
 teered to act as guide to a posi- 
 tion of security in the rear for 
 his company. This was under 
 heavy shell fire and he with four 
 others were seriously wounded. 
 After being placed on a stretcher 
 and scarcely able to speak, he 
 continued to direct the route. 
 
 MORROW, ERNEST L. 100291 
 
 Private Company B 
 
 Killed October 17, 1918 at Hill 
 288, near Landres, St. George. 
 
 Private Morrow was killed by a 
 machine gun bullet at Hill 288 
 near Landres, St. George. He 
 was with the regiment in the 
 < Lorraine Sector and also Cham- 
 pagne, Chateau Thierry and at 
 St. Mihiel. 
 
 Relative's address — Mr. Donald 
 Noble, PauUina, Iowa. 
 
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 1487714 
 
 Private Company B 
 
 Died October 17, 1918, at Hos- 
 pitaL 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Fell, 
 Berclan, Texas. 
 
 Private Fell was wounded by ma- 
 chine gun fire while advancing 
 against Hill 288 and died later in 
 the hospital. 
 
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 ZIDDNOS, TEDDY M. 100608 
 
 Private Company D 
 
 Killed October 17th at Argonne. 
 Buried October 18th. 
 
 Private Ziddnos was killed by a 
 German hand grenade, which 
 had been left as a trap. He was 
 a Battalion runner and was a 
 good soldier and loved by all 
 who knew him. 
 
 Relative's address — Mary Les- 
 neski, Centerville, Iowa. 
 
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 KLINE, RALPH F. 302568 
 
 Private Company F 
 
 Killed October 17, 1918, in the 
 Argonne Forest. 
 
 Private Kline was a runner. 
 
 While his company was fighting 
 on Hill 288, he happened to be in 
 the most advanced position and 
 saw some Germans operating a 
 machine gun. He had no rifle, 
 but borrowed one from a com- 
 rade and started for the Ger- 
 mans. He was instantly killed 
 as several bullets from the 
 machine gun struck him. 
 
 Relative's address — Mrs, Seidl 
 Luxemburg, Wis. 
 
 WILSON, CLIFFORD 246076 
 
 Sanitary Train 
 
 Died October 14th, in Field Hos- 
 pital No. 165. 
 
 Private Wilson died from a 
 gun shot wound in the left leg, 
 which he received in the ad- 
 vance in the Argonne Forest. 
 
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 GARDNER, WAYLAND S. 2990633 
 
 Private Company E 
 
 Died October 17, 1918 in Field 
 Hospital No. 165. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Everett 
 Gardner, Angier, N. C. 
 
 Private Gardner joined the com- 
 pany in August and saw action 
 at St. Mihiel and the Argonne. 
 
 He was a good soldier and a will- 
 ing worker. 
 
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 QUINN, GOVAN A. 1488100 
 
 Private Company F 
 Killed October 17, 1918, at Ar- 
 gonne. 
 
 Private Quinn was a Texas Na- 
 tional Guard. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. 
 Quinn, Salado, Texas. 
 
 He was a good dress parade sol- 
 dier and just as good in the 
 lines. A quiet southerner of the 
 old school. Quinn was an auto- 
 matic rifleman and very effi- 
 cient. The platoon was advanc- 
 ing against heavy machine gun 
 fire and Quinn was firing an au- 
 tomatic rifle, when a machine 
 gun bullet hit him between the 
 eyes and killed him instantly. 
 
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 SMITH, MERWYN 99318 
 
 Private, First Class, Headquarters 
 
 Company. 
 
 Killed October 18, 1918. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 3-1, Map of 
 Kriemhilde, Stellung. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Smith, 
 Sloan, Iowa. 
 
 With several of his company. 
 Private Smith was carrying 
 mess to the men in the front 
 lines. They were going up a 
 rather narrow valley when the 
 enemy opened a heavy shelling. 
 Smith was instantly killed. 
 
 GAREY, CHARLES G, 
 
 99282 
 
 Private Headquarters Co. 
 
 Died of wounds October 18, 1918, 
 at Field Hospital No. 165. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. 
 Garey, Tipton, Iowa. 
 
 The enemy knew that all sup- 
 plies to the men in the front lines 
 had to be carried through a 
 narrow valley and they shelled 
 this valley at irregular intervals. 
 It was a difficult matter to tell 
 when they would shell this val- 
 ley and the men had to be fed. 
 Private Garey was killed while 
 on a detail carrying mess to the 
 men. 
 
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 WAMSLEY, CHARLES D. 3168230 
 Private Company B 
 Died October 18, 1918. 
 
 Private Wamsley received a gun 
 shot wound October 16, 1918, in 
 action near Cote de Chatillon and 
 died in the hospital on October 
 18, 1918. 
 
 Mrs. Hattie Wamsley (yiiie), 
 Mill Creek, West Virginia. 
 
 PHILLIP, ROBERT L. 2738171 
 
 Private Company F 
 Killed October 18, 1918, at Ar- 
 gonne Forest. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 3-2, Map of 
 Kriemhilde, Stellung. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Mary R. Phillips, 
 Goshen, Va. 
 
 Private PhiUips was one of the 
 last replacements. He was car- 
 rying mess to his comrades when 
 a German aeroplane sighted the 
 detail and signalled to their ar- 
 tillery and the shell which came 
 as a result killed him instantly. 
 Carrying mess in the Argonne 
 was a very dangerous and tire- 
 some job and he was on this 
 detail for several days and was 
 always willing and faithful. 
 
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 GROVER, 
 
 RALPH E. 302478 
 
 Private Company H 
 
 Died October 18, 1918 at Field 
 Hospital No. 165. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Evelyn Grover, 
 Fostoria, Mich. 
 
 Private Grover was wounded 
 severely during the Argonne op- 
 erations. He was removed to 
 Field Hospital No, 165, where he 
 died two days later. 
 
 BUSICK, CLARENCE J. 101881 
 
 Private Company I 
 
 Killed October 18, 1918, at the 
 Cote de Chatillon in the drive 
 through the Argonne. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. S. 
 Busick, Vallene, Ind. 
 
 A shell from a German 77 struck 
 directly in the hole where Pri- 
 vate Busick was asleep with his 
 comrade and killed him in- 
 stantly. 
 
 Private Busick was an automat- 
 ic gunner and a good soldier, 
 always performing his duties in a 
 soldierly manner. 
 
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 RODIN, EVALD M. 
 
 101949 
 
 Corporal Company J 
 
 Killed October 18, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. 
 Rodin, Burlington, Iowa. 
 
 Corporal Rodin was killed by ar- 
 tillery fire on Cote de Chatillon. 
 
 He was a member of the First 
 Platoon and had charge of a 
 rifle squad. No one could ques- 
 tion his ability as a non-com- 
 missioned officer and his work 
 was always more than satisfac- 
 tory. 
 
 Born June 14, 1897. 
 
 KERNS, HUGH J. 101923 
 
 Private Company I 
 
 Killed October 18, 1918, at Cote 
 
 de Chatillon in the Argonne 
 
 Forest. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 2-12, Map of 
 Kriemhilde, Stellung. 
 Son of Mrs. Rachael Kerns, 
 Pottsmouth, Nebr. 
 Private Kerns was in the rifle 
 grenadier squad of the Fourth 
 Platoon. He was industrious and 
 never had to be told to do a 
 thing a second time. A shell 
 burst directly over the hole in 
 which he and his corporal were 
 entrenched. The corporal was 
 instantly killed and Private 
 Kerns was taken to the regimen- 
 tal infirmary where he died be- 
 fore he could be removed to the 
 hospital. 
 
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 1484654 
 
 PETERSON, HAROLD H. 102553 
 
 Killed October 18, 1918, in Jhe 
 Argonne. 
 
 Buried in grave No. 2-42, Map of 
 Kriemhilde, Stellung. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. B. Peter- 
 son, Chicago, 111. 
 
 Private Peterson was killed by 
 a high explosive shell vyrhile eat- 
 ing his dinner in a fox hole, 
 which he had dug for his pro- 
 tection. He had made a good 
 record and was always cheerful 
 and willing no matter how bad 
 things were. His friends accord 
 him the highest words of praise. 
 
 Private Company I 
 
 Killed October 18, 1918, at Cote 
 de Chatillon. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben P. 
 Wiley, Gonzales, Texas. 
 
 Private Wiley joined the com- 
 pany after the Chateau Thierry 
 fight and was a litter bearer in 
 the fourth platoon. He was 
 killed on the Cote de Chatillon. 
 
 A shell made a direct hit on the 
 hole in which he was sleeping. 
 
 He was always conscientious, 
 willing and trustworthy. 
 
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HENCH, ALVIN 
 
 Private Company A 
 
 Company A reports this man 
 captured by the enemy. 
 
 War Department reports him 
 killed. 
 
 Reports uncertain at present. 
 
 HERBERT, EARL 302504 
 
 Private Company M 
 
 Killed October 18, 1918, at 
 Argonne. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 2-20, Map 
 of Kriemhilde, Stellung. 
 
 Private Herbert -was killed dur- 
 ing the advance in the Ar- 
 gonne Forest. 
 
 Relatives' address, Mrs. Daim 
 Ladroin, Memominee, Mich. 
 
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BURKES, THOMAS 1349544 
 
 Private Company K 
 
 Killed in the Argonne October 
 18, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. 
 Burkes, Taunt, Ala. 
 
 Private Burkes was in a hole he 
 had dug for his own protection 
 as the enemy was shelling our 
 position. He was hit by a frag- 
 ment of high explosive shell and 
 killed instantly. He was with 
 the regiment in the attack on the 
 St. Mihiel salient. 
 
 PAYNE, WILLIAM H. 31695449 
 
 Private Company I 
 
 Died October 19, 1918 at Field 
 Hospital No. 165. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. 
 Payne, Ceredo, W. Va. 
 
 Private Payne was acting as a 
 stretcher bearer in the Argonne 
 Forest and helping to carry 
 back the wounded. He was fear- 
 less in the execution of his duty 
 and had many soldierly qualities. 
 
 
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 Private Company C 
 
 Son of Mr. Earl Moore. Green- 
 ville S. C. 
 
 Killed in acton October 4th 1918. 
 
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 OLIVO 100082 
 
 Corporal Company A 
 Killed October 19, 1918 at Ar- 
 gonne. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Toson, 
 Winterset, Iowa. 
 Corporal Toson was killed in- 
 stantly by a piece of shrapnel 
 while in charge of a salvaging 
 detail after his battalion had 
 been relieved and were holding 
 the second lines of resistance. 
 He was a Liaison Runner and 
 carried messages through heavy 
 artillery and machine gun fire. 
 His daring work was instru- 
 mental in aiding the determined 
 and unfaltering advance of his 
 company, and his coolness and 
 courage inspired and buoyed up 
 the spirit of many a comrade as 
 he went over the top. 
 
 MOTTER, DANIEL P. 246704 
 
 Private Company K 
 
 Killed in the Argonne, October 
 19, 1918. 
 
 The enemy were bombarding our 
 position and Private Motter was i 
 in a hole he had dug for his pro- \. 
 tection. A high explosive shell 
 hit close to him and killed him 
 instantly. 
 
 Relative's address, Fred Motter, 
 Big Run, Pa. 
 
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 McGEE, HAROLD G. 10240 
 
 Private Company L 
 
 Killed October 21, 1918 at Ar- 
 gonne. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 1-B, Map 
 Montfaucon. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Mc- 
 Gee, Council BluflFs, Iowa. 
 
 Private McGee was killed by i 
 
 shell fire on the Argonne Front.^ I |l| 
 
 He was a willing worker and an 
 excellent front line soldier. He 
 endeared himself to the officers 
 and men of his company by his 
 bravery and his faithfulness to 
 duty and friends. It was often 
 said of him that he was afraid of 
 nothing. 
 
 HIGGINS, ROBERT M. 3624620 
 
 Private Company M 
 
 Killed October 20, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 2-37, Map of 
 Kriemhilde Stellung. 
 
 Private Higgins was killed dur- 
 ing the Argonne operations. 
 
 Relative's address, Mira Higgins, 
 Richmond, Va. 
 
 
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 Private Company H 
 
 Died October 21, 1918 at Field 
 Hospital No. 127. 
 
 Buried at Montfaucon-Meuse, 
 France. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Flora T. Page, Cen- 
 tral City, Iowa. j 
 
 Private Page received his woundsl^ 
 in action during the Argonne V 
 operations. 
 
 He was taken to the Field Hos- 
 pital where he died a few days 
 later. 
 
 JONES, CHAMP LEE 3165429 
 
 Private Company L 
 
 Killed October 21, 1918. 
 
 Buried in Grave No. 1-A. 
 
 Private Jones was killed by shell 
 fire on the Cote de Cnatillon. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Emma V. Florence, 
 Bristow, Va. 
 
 He was a dependable soldier and 
 could always be relied upon to 
 discharge his duty in an upright 
 and intelligent manner. When 
 he was killed he had just fin- 
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 OLIVER, NORMAN 
 
 Private Company G 
 
 Killed October 24, 1918 at the 
 Argonne. 
 
 Son of Mrs. Mollie Oliver, 
 Clarksville, Tenn. 
 
 Private Oliver was sent to this 
 organization as a replacement 
 and had been with us but a short 
 time when we went into action 
 in the Argonne. He was wound- 
 ed by a fragment of a gas shell 
 and was taken to the hospital 
 where he died from his wounds. 
 
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 Private Company G 
 
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 Son of Mr. and Mrs. K. C. 
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 Private Company M 
 
 Died of wounds October 20, 
 1918. 
 
 f^ Buried at Les Isletts, France, i " 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Jones, 
 Red Oak, Iowa. 
 
 Private Jones received wounds 
 in the Argonne advance. 
 
 DAVIS, LOREN W. 
 
 Corporal Company M 
 
 Killed October 20, 1918. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. 
 
 Davis, Libertyville, Iowa. 
 
 Corporal Davis was killed during 
 the advance in the Argonne 
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 Vaughn, Providence, R. I. 
 
 Lieutenant Vaughn was seriously 
 wounded near Montfaucon from 
 an explosive shell. 
 He was sent to the Base Hospital 
 No. 68 located at Mars, where 
 he died on November 11, 1918, 
 |\^ He was buried with full military 
 honors in the officers' cemetery 
 at Mars-Sur-AUier, 
 Lieutenant Vaughn attended the 
 First Plattsburg Camp in 1916 
 and also in 1917, 
 
 Born April 5, 1895, Providence, 
 R. I. 
 
 IRVIN, FRED 
 
 Private Company A 
 
 Died at Base Hospital, Camp 
 Dodge, February 17, 1919. 
 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs, Dr, H, C, 
 Irvin, Earlham, Iowa, 
 
 Private Irvin was gassed Novem- 
 ber 4, 1917 and through exposure 
 he contracted tuberculosis. 
 
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AFTER the battle of the Argonne we rested for five days in the valley 
 to the right of Exermont. While lying there a long range shell, one 
 sunny afternoon, came plunging into our midst and two boys were 
 killed and three wounded. On the night of November 2, our regiment, 
 with the rest of the division, started forward once more to enter the line 
 of battle. Marching all night in the cold, drizzly rain, over muddy and 
 shell torn roads, with but little food and practically no sleep, we moved 
 forward over the roads that were crowded with marching troops, strug- 
 gling horses, poor and thin from the loss of food, trying to drag their 
 heavy load in pursuit of the rapidly retreating enemy. 
 
 On the night of November 4, we bivouacked near the town of Brieulles- 
 Sur-Bar. There airplanes in great number came roaring over to drop 
 their loads of bombs and to turn back to their own lines for a fresh sup- 
 ply. Making trip after trip they returned again and again to disturb our 
 rest and send chilly fears down our spines. But the next morning the 
 tide was to turn in the other direction. 
 
 That day I saw a sight I never shall forget. Two hundred and twelve 
 American aeroplanes, flying in beautiful formation, flew over us to bomb 
 the retreating boche. Never shall I forget them, flying in goose forma- 
 tion while far above the bombing planes, our lone scouts were watching 
 for any enemy who might attempt to attack our bombers. The next day, 
 as we followed the retreating Hun, the roads were thick with evidence of 
 what those planes had accomplished. Wagons and guns had been thrown 
 about in wild confusion, dead horses and German soldiers lined the roads, 
 and many a German battery was left behind because of blown-up bridges 
 and destroyed roads. 
 
 Our boys went out in skirmish lines, with scouts ahead of them. Un- 
 der the personal command of Colonel Tinley, we jumped off to the attack 
 at Verrieres and swept forward almost like a march, clear to the town of 
 Stonne. The German rear guards fought cleverly, but they knew the 
 battle was lost and their one thought was to escape to their home. Con- 
 sequently, with slight resistance we forced them out of one town, then an- 
 other, by strongly fortified hills, and through woods that would have been 
 most difficiilt to have taken had they had the heart to fight. 
 
 From Stonne to the Meuse our progress was much hampered by the 
 fact that the enemy had destroyed all culverts and bridges and blown 
 great gapping holes in the low places along the splendid highways. At 
 one place just north of Stonne where it was impossible to go around, the 
 Germans had blown out the whole side of a hill by a mine and our artillery 
 and supplies were held up for twenty-four hours. Not waiting for food 
 or water our infantry pushed on and by the night of the sixth passed 
 through the town of Marinaucourt, and occupied the town of Haraucourt, 
 where we were most joyfully received by the liberated French civilians, 
 who came out waving American flags, which they had made in secret in 
 their cellars and the dugouts of their homes. I arrived at 7 o'clock that 
 night with the food carts, which I had taken charge of, as I had no 
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teams, only to find that the French civilians had fed the boys out of their 
 meagre supply and in many cases the boys had been placed in their best 
 beds. Never shall I forget that sight. Great groups of French peasants 
 clustered about our American boys, jabbering away as rapidly as they 
 could in a language which they had not been allowed to speak, their own 
 language, the French, for four years. Our boys, understanding less than 
 half of what they said, were saying "Oui, Oui" to everything. A stranger 
 sight could hardly be imagined. The joy of these people was so great, 
 and yet so pathetic, that it filled one's heart with deep emotion to watch 
 them, to feel their splendid enthusiasm and hear their cry "Vive L' Amer- 
 ican!" and their "Vive la France!" 
 
 By the morning of the 7th, the entire Forty-second Division had 
 reached the Meuse river and was encamped on the heights above Sedan. 
 On that night and the night of the 8th, our Brigade, the Eighty-fourth, took 
 over the front of the whole division, occupied it until the night of the 9th, 
 was relieved upon that day and marched back the Stonne highway. In 
 the little village of Briquenay, on November 11, we received the news of 
 the armistice. 
 
 In this drive our regiment was the most fortunate of any of the divi- 
 sion. We did not lose a single man, killed, and only three slightly wounded. 
 Colonel Wolfe in his description says, "In its rapid advance to Sedan, the 
 Forty-second Division despite the destruction of the highways and the 
 natural obstacles in its path, advanced against enemy resistance an aver- 
 age distance of twenty-one and one-half kilometers in twenty-nine hours, 
 and had seized on the evening of November 6, the heights on the south 
 bank of the Meuse dominating Sedan." 
 
 The armistice was signed and the fighting part of the war was over. 
 Our dead were strewn over seven battlefields and our wounded were 
 lying in many villages of France in our American hospitals. The price 
 that our regiment paid to maintain and protect our heritage of Freedom 
 and Liberty, was six hundred and seventy-seven dead and approximately 
 thirty-one hundred wounded. The old flag with its red bars has a new 
 meaning for us now because our comrades' blood has dyed anew its 
 colors for us and to maintain and protect the liberties, rights and privi- 
 leges of that flag will evermore be our sacred duty, for to us it has been 
 "bought with a price." 
 
 In the days that came before we started on our march to the Rhine, 
 the quiet of the night and the calm of the day seemed unfamiliar and un- 
 real to us, so accustomed had we become to the whine of shells and the 
 cracking roar of cannons. We wondered by what process of fate, better 
 men than ourselves had been called upon to pass through the door of 
 death leaving their loved ones and all behind, while ours was to be the 
 privilege of returning to home and friends. We had passed, as our dead 
 had passed, through a long summer of battle, but to us fate had been very 
 kind. The long months of exposure must exact its toll and we record here 
 the names of those boys, while escaping the wrath of the God of battle, 
 fell a victim to exposure or disease. 
 
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 RHODES, GLENN 
 
 Private Company H 
 
 Died of wounds received in 
 action, November 2, 1918. 
 
 Son of E. J. Rhodes, Sloan, Iowa. 
 
 During our drive to Sedan we did 
 not have many casualties, as the 
 Germans fled as fast as we 
 approached their position. Only- 
 three men in our regiment were 
 wounded, and Glenn was one of 
 these. 
 
 McMURRAY, WILLIAM V. 
 
 Second Lieutenant Headquarters 
 Company, 363d Infantry 
 Formerly Sergeant Company B 
 168th Infantry. 
 
 Buried at Waerghem, Belgium. 
 William McMurray served with 
 Company B in the Mexican Bor- 
 der service and served with the 
 168th Infantry through the bat-^ 
 ties of the summer. He was 
 sent to the army candidates' 
 school at Langres, France, where 
 he was commissioned Second 
 Lieutenant. He was killed in 
 action on November 3rd, while 
 serving with the 91st division in 
 Belgium. 
 
 Relative's address, Everett Mc- 
 Murray, 3219 Cleveland Avenue, 
 Des Moines, Iowa. 
 
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 Sergeant Company L 
 
 Died November 27, 1918 at Base 
 Hospital No. 19. 
 
 Langan was a wonderful soldier. 
 Besides physical strength and 
 military bearing he had an active 
 military mind. In our last ad- 
 vance he was slightly wounded 
 and while in the hospital con- 
 tracted pneumonia and died 
 about three weeks later. Langan 
 was to have been commissioned 
 but died several days before he 
 was to have taken the oath of 
 office. 
 
 Was awarded D. S. C. 
 Emergency Address: Mrs. James 
 \\\\/'/t jlz/'^^^t^^' Council Bluffs, Iowa 
 
 GARTNER, PETER A. 
 
 Private Company E 
 
 Home address, St. Ansgar, Iowa. 
 
 Private Gartner died back at the 
 hospital from wounds received in 
 action. We were not able to get 
 any definite information concern- 
 ing Gartner's death. One of his 
 comrades having sent us his 
 picture which is here shown. 
 
 Private Gartner enlisted with 
 Company E when the first call 
 for men was made by the Na- 
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 COOK, CARL J. 84334 
 
 Private Company F 
 Killed July 15, 1918, Champagne. 
 Buried July 16, Grave No. 13. 
 
 Private Cook ■wz.s our first re- 
 placement from 41st Division, 
 He was a v^filling and hard work- 
 ing soldier. Cook had carried 
 wounded during the bombard- 
 ment of July 14, never stopping 
 through all of the shell fire. He 
 showed great courage and faith- 
 fulness while at his work. He 
 was killed by a bursting shell the 
 morning of the 15th, while on 
 duty in the front line trench, 
 in Lorraine, Chateau Thierry, St. 
 Emergency address, Harvey J. 
 Cook, Gillette, Wyo, 
 
 WHALEN, JAMES EDWARD 
 
 Private First Class, Company E 
 
 Killed July 26, 1918, Chateau 
 Thierry in Foret de fere. 
 
 Grave No. 7-A. 
 
 Whalcn enlisted in the first Iowa 
 guard and was transferred to 
 Company E in August 1917. He 
 served throughout the Lorraine 
 campaign and the battle of 
 Champagne. He was a good 
 soldier and well liked by all of 
 his comrades. 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. Mary C. 
 Whalen, 612 S. E. 4th St., Des 
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MOVING from the deserted village, where on November 11 we re- 
 ceived the news of the armistice, we journeyed to the scene of former 
 battles near Lamdres-et-St. Georges. On November 14 we marched 
 to Dun-sur-muese where we passed, on November 16, the reserve division 
 of the third corps. On November 20 with bands playing, flags flying and 
 our boys marching proudly we began our triumphant march through north- 
 ern France and at Virton we crossed into Belgium, where indescribable 
 scenes of enthusiasm greeted our American troops. 
 
 The gladness of these Belgium people at their deliverance and the 
 thankfulness they felt toward the great American nation, which they 
 showed to us by every possible means, filled us with pride that we were 
 citizens of United States. 
 
 Thanksgiving day found us in the little village of Eischen in the Grand 
 Duchy of Luxemburg, where we enjoyed a real Thanksgiving dinner and 
 after resting here three days we passed through the duchy, a most beauti- 
 ful little country, where the soil was well tilled and the people seemed 
 quite content. They gave us quite as warm a welcome as did the French 
 of Northern France and our trip aside from the toil of the march was a very 
 pleasant one indeed. 
 
 On December 1 we reached the edge of this duchy and were ready the 
 following morning to cross the Sauer river into the land of our defeated 
 enemy. The Luxemburgers, before we left, gave us a warm reception and 
 the last night in Luxemburg will long be remembered by many of the offi- 
 cers and men of our regiment. On the next day we marched across the 
 river and into Germany and were billeted that night in three dirty, little 
 villages, where ample evidence of the German's ability to multiply was 
 manifested by the great number of poorly-dressed children gathered about 
 and staring curiously at the American troops. 
 
 From there we moved to Bitburg to the west of Trier and thence by 
 long, steady marches to the banks of the Rhine river. We established our 
 regimental headquarters at Niederbreisig while the divisional quarters 
 were located at Ahrweiler. 
 
 We were received by the Germans with little manifestation of the 
 hostile feeling that we knew the Germans felt for us. We were in a rich, 
 fertile section of the country about forty kilometers below Coblenz and 
 about an equal distance above the great university city of Bonn. We were 
 on the extreme left of the American Army of Occupation and on our left 
 were the Canadians with whom we felt very friendly. 
 
 We soon made ourselves comfortable in the homes of our enemy, who 
 seemed glad to do the things we asked and who were glad that the war was 
 over, even though it was over by the German defeat. After a few days of 
 rest we took up a heavy training schedule in an attempt to pass away the 
 long, lonesome hours, which we had to spend in a country among a people 
 with whom we had no desire to make friends. And this was perhaps the 
 hardest part of our battle. Nothing grates on a soldier as much as to 
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where he wants to go, in a place in which he has no pleasure in staying. 
 Such was the condition in which we found ourselves. Sighing and dream- 
 ing of homes from which we had been absent now eighteen months the 
 long winter slowly dragged away. 
 
 Everything that could be done was done to take care of the health 
 and the morals of the men. Athletics, Y. M. C. A. entertainments, regi- 
 mental and divisional shows, moving pictures and stag dances were intro- 
 duced to amuse and entertain and to help shorten the hours for our im- 
 patient soldiers. A number sickened and died while we were here and 
 their death seemed doubly tragic to us in that they had passed through 
 the long summer of battle only to fall a prey to disease. 
 
 GETTING READY TO GO HOME 
 
 On March 16 the Division was reviewed by General Pershing, our 
 commander-in-chief, a certain number of our officers and men were given 
 well merited honors of war. April 2 the following review of the One 
 Hundred Sixty-eighth's service with the Rainbow Division was issued from 
 Forty-second Division headquarters : 
 
 HEADQUARTERS FORTY-SECOND DIVISION, 
 American Expeditionary Forces. 
 
 General Order Germany, 2 April, 1919. 
 
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 As the Rainbow Division has reached the closing days of its 
 military service, the Commanding General desires to recite in orders 
 the salient features of the service of the One Hundred Sixty-eighth 
 Infantry. 
 
 After an intensive training period, during w^hich, due to severe 
 climatic conditions, many hardships had to be endured, the One 
 Hundred Sixty-eighth Infantry, as part of the Forty-second Division, 
 was moved into the Luneville Sector, and in conjunction with French 
 units took over a portion of the line. After a short period there, 
 spent in putting finishing touches on its training, it was moved with 
 the other elements of the Division, into the Baccarat Sector. Here 
 it held the right half of the Neuf Maison Sub-sector during a period 
 of approximately 100 days and helped the Forty-second Division hold 
 the Baccarat Sector for a longer continuous period than any other 
 American division held a sector. In this service it experienced two 
 extremely severe enemy gas projector attacks. Many of its members 
 were fatally gassed, but there was no time that its line was not held 
 firmly against the futile attacks of the enemy to penetrate it. It 
 also repulsed a strong enemy raid, inflicting heavy casualties and 
 without itself suffering any losses. 
 
 The One Hundred Sixty-eighth Infantry was withdrawn from 
 this sector and as part of the Division was moved to the vicinity of 
 Suippes and thrown in as part of General Gouraud's now famous 
 army to stem the tide of the German offensive of July 15th. Here 
 the regiment was placed with certain of its elements in the first line 
 and others on the second position, and not a single individual of the 
 
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enemy succeeded in penetrating the lines it held. On these positions 
 the men underwent, without sufficient cover, what many veteran 
 French officers described as the most intensive enemy artillery fire 
 of the war. They withstood this ordeal with a calmness and a spirit 
 that called forth the admiration of the French with whom they were 
 serving. The French Division Commander in command of the Sector 
 of Suippes remarked with amazement on the steadiness and coolness 
 displayed by the regiment under its first heavy shell fire. 
 
 After the German offensive had been completely stopped the 
 regiment was withdrawn and immediately thrown into the French 
 and American offensive towards the Ourcq and the Vesle. Here, by 
 its aggressiveness it forged forward 15 kilometers, overcoming and 
 beating down the formidable strong point, Hill 212, The Regiment 
 forced a crossing of the Ourcq, and with the One Hundred Sixty- 
 seventh Infantry, the other regiment of its brigade, after the most 
 severe kind of fighting, in which the village of Sergy changed hands 
 eight times, it finally retained possession of that village, forcing the 
 enemy to withdraw. The fight for Sergy is now one of the prominent 
 points in the history of the American Expeditionary Forces. In the 
 position along the Ourcq the One Hundred Sixty-eighth Infantry 
 underwent, day and night, intense shell and machine gun fire, some 
 of which came from the flanks and enfiladed its position. It however 
 held its position and was always ready and eager to push forward 
 when called upon. 
 
 Upon reaching the heights overlooking the Vesle the regiment 
 was relieved by elements of a fresh division and withdrawn to the 
 Bourmont area for a well-earned rest. Hardly however had it become 
 settled in this area before orders came directing that it proceed to 
 take up its position for attack against the St. Mihiel salient. This 
 was done by hard night marches. In the St. Mihiel operation the 
 One Hundred Sixty-eighth Infantry forged ahead, reaching its ob- 
 jective many hours before the time limit prescribed and overcoming 
 many German machine gun nests in the thick woods through which 
 it progressed in the early stages of this attack. 
 
 Upon reaching the final objective prescribed by the Army the 
 One Hundred Sixty-eighth organized its sector and held it. During 
 its period of occupation of this position it executed a most successful 
 raid against Marimbois Farm, killing many of the enemy, destroying 
 machine gun nests and returning with prisoners without itself suf- 
 fering any casualties. This regiment continually harassed the enemy 
 and kept him constantly uncertain and nervous. 
 
 The next scene of operation was in the Argonne. Here, in con- 
 junction with the other regiment of its brigade, in savage fighting 
 through thick woods, it took the Cote de Chatilion, which was the 
 key of the famous Kriemhilde Stellung, and held it, thus permitting 
 part of the attack of November 1 to be launched from this favorable 
 point of departure. In overcoming resistance on the Cote de Chatilion 
 the One Hundred Sixty-eighth conquered the strong point of Tuilerie 
 Farm by extremely severe and aggressive fighting. 
 
 On November 1, as part of the division, this regiment moved to 
 push the attack towards Sedan. Here it forged ahead, and on Novem- 
 ber 9, when the division was relieved in the front line, the One Hun- 
 dred Sixty-eighth Infantry had reached the heights overlooking the 
 Meuse in the vicinity of Sedan. 
 
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When the armistice was signed the One Hundred Sixty-eighth 
 Infantry, with the other elements of the Forty-second Division, 
 marched into Germany, where it remained as part of the American 
 Army of Occupation on the Rhine until its departure for the United 
 States. 
 
 It is with soldierly pride that the Division Commander thus 
 briefly reviews the magnificent record of the One Hundred Sixty- 
 eighth U. S. Infantry, the old Third Iowa Infantry. 
 
 Iowa may well be proud of her representation in the Rainbow 
 Division. 
 
 By command of Major General Flagler: 
 
 WM. N. HUGHES, JR., 
 Colonel General Staff, 
 
 Chief of Staff. 
 
 Official: 
 
 JAMES E. THOMAS, 
 
 Major, A. G., U. S. A., 
 
 Division Adjutant. 
 
 On April 8 orders finally came for the homeward journey to begin 
 and more eager or happy men could not have been found in the world. We 
 were going home. Without a bit of complaint our men piled into those de- 
 spised little French box cars and started toward the coast. The journey was 
 completed in three days and we landed at Brest, the dirtiest, rainiest town 
 on earth. We were held in camp five days. Our clothes were again de- 
 loused, inspection and examination of all papers was made, the men them- 
 selves were inspected and were given their clearance papers. Money was 
 changed back into good American dollars and with a light heart we moved 
 down to the harbor and out to where the great Leviathian was lying at 
 anchor. We were quickly loaded aboard and just as the sun was going 
 down over the water the boat began to move and our boys standing in 
 crowds on the decks of the boat or leaning on the rails, watched the shore 
 of France rapidly receding, become a blur, then fade slowly from our sight 
 in the distance. But no man cheered. The past eighteen months had been 
 rich in romance, danger and adventure but the tragedy which had come to 
 the lives of seven hundred of our comrades, laid a shadow over our hearts. 
 We took off our hats and stood silent, watching the blurred and distant 
 shore, as one who stands at the gateway of a cemetery, looking back at 
 the spot where his dead sleeps before he turns again into the great world's 
 life with its pressing problems and toilsome cares. 
 
 The country to which we were going was our country or "God's Coun- 
 try" as the boys called it. Our loved ones were waiting for us with eager 
 impatient hearts and we were eager to go to them for our hearts were hun- 
 gry for the sight of their faces and the feel of their arms and the warmth 
 of their affection. And yet, as we stood looking back, we were conscious 
 that in the land that we were leaving we had passed through experiences 
 that had changed us from boys to men. Sacred memories thronged our 
 hearts of buddies who we left sleeping there and the realization came 
 that to us France would always be HOLY GROUND. 
 
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 NELSON, AUGUST 102272 
 
 Mechanic Company G 
 
 Died of Pneumonia December 9. 
 1918, at Echternach. Luxemburg. 
 
 Relative's address, Elsa Larson, 
 216 S. 9th Street, Council Bluffs, 
 Iowa. 
 
 Nelson had passed through the 
 different drives of the war in 
 safety but during our last drive, 
 to Sedan, our boys had to endure 
 great hardships. We had little 
 food and little sleep. The cold, 
 wet days that followed, while we 
 were on the march, caused many 
 to sicken and Nelson died of 
 pneumonia on December 9. A 
 hard and steady worker, faithful 
 to the last. 
 
 REESE, THOMAS 
 
 102184 
 
 Cook, Company K 
 
 Died December 15, 1918, in Field 
 Hospital No. 167. 
 
 He was buried in the Hospital 
 Cemetery. 
 
 Thomas Reese had served faith- 
 fully during every battle of thei 
 war and had done splendid work 
 in Lorraine, Chateau Thierry, St. 
 Mihiel and Argonne. There was 
 no more important work in the 
 regiment than the preparing and 
 keeping the boys supplied with 
 food. 
 
 Relative's address, E. T. 
 Carbon, Iowa. 
 
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HAWKINS, GEORGE 
 
 Private Company M 
 Died of pneumonia at Prum, 
 Germany, on December 25, 1918. 
 Relative's address, Alexis M, 
 Hawkins, Red Oak, Iowa. 
 Hawkins was one of the first 
 volunteers after the war was de- 
 clared. He was taken sick just 
 before the regiment sailed and 
 was left behind. He rejoined his 
 ^ unit the day they were relieved 
 
 in Lorraine. He gave a good ac- 
 count of himself in Champagne 
 and Chateau Thierry. He acted 
 as a battalion runner which was 
 a dangerous and hard position to 
 fill. While we were in Germany 
 he was taken sick and sent to the 
 hospital where he died. 
 Born in Red Oak, October 24, 
 1898. 
 
 GLOVER, HAROLD 99908 
 
 Cook Company A 
 Died in Hospital No. 10, De- 
 cember 22, 1918. 
 Relative's address, E. E. Glover, 
 Menlo, Iowa. 
 
 Glover enlisted as a private but 
 shortly afterwards was given a 
 place in the company kitchen. 
 His unfailing good humor and 
 anxiety to see that the boys were 
 well served, made him a general 
 favorite. Glover's kitchen was 
 as far forward as it was possible 
 for him to get it. He served in 
 every battle of the summer and 
 came through unhurt, but died 
 from appendicitis on December 
 22. 
 
 Among all the boys who lost their 
 lives none are held in greater 
 esteem than Harold Glover. 
 
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 TURNER, LOUIE J. 
 
 Corporal Company H 
 Relative's address, Mrs. Eliza- 
 beth Turner, 816 Second avenue, 
 West Oskaloosa, Iowa. 
 
 Corporal Turner had served as 
 battalion runner during the 
 greater part of the war. He took 
 an active part in every battle in 
 which the regiment fought. Dur- 
 ing our march into Germany he 
 became ill on the 5th day of 
 December. He was sent to evac- 
 uation Hospital No. 7 at Prum, 
 Germany, where he died of lobar 
 pneumonia and influenza. He 
 was buried at Prum. 
 Turner had an enviable record. 
 Clean in life and devoted to his 
 duty, he played his full part in 
 helping to win the war. 
 
 SHUCKROW, PATRICK 101337 
 
 Cook Company G 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. Harry 
 Shuckrow, 101 Main Street, 
 Ottumwa, Iowa. 
 
 Shuckrow took sick and died of 
 pneumonia while at Neuenahr, 
 Germany, on December 16, 1918. 
 He was buried at Neuenahr. 
 
 Shuckrow had served with the 
 regiment from the beginning of 
 the war. He did splendid work 
 in all of the battles, only to fall 
 a victim to disease. 
 
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 BURKE, RAYMOND F. 
 
 Wagoner Supply Company 
 Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. 
 Burke, Walnut, Iowa. 
 
 Raymond Burke enlisted in the 
 Third Iowa National Guard and 
 went to France with the regi- 
 ment. From exposure and from 
 injury to hand, he was sent to 
 the hospital. In July his com- 
 pany commander had him sent 
 to America for rest and to re- 
 cuperate. He should have re- 
 ceived an honorable discharge at 
 this time but he asked to stay in 
 the service. He was sent to 
 Camp Devens, Massachusetts 
 and on September 15 came down 
 with pneumonia and died the 
 25th. 
 Born September 8, 1893. 
 
 BLOCKLINGER, FRANK 
 
 Private Company I 
 
 Relative's address, Mrs. Adam 
 Gartner, 1570 Audubon Avenue, 
 Dubuque, Iowa. 
 
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 HITCHINS, F. G. 
 
 Sergeant Company G 168th Infantry 
 
 Died December 19, 1918 of pneu- 
 monia at Aedunu, Germany. 
 
 Relative's address, E. Hitchins, 
 Third Street, Waterloo, Iowa. 
 
 After we had arrived in Germany 
 Sergeant Hitchins was sent to 
 the hospital sick with pneumonia 
 of which he died December 19. 
 
 He had a long record of splendid 
 service with the regiment. It 
 seemed very unkind of fate that 
 he should die before the order 
 came to return home. 
 
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 DJONNE, MARTIN 
 
 Private Company C 
 
 Relative's address, E. S. Alsager, 
 Radcliffe, Iowa. 
 
 (I have been unable to verify 
 the facts concerning Djonne's 
 death. We know he is dead but 
 the manner of his death is a 
 mystery to us.) 
 
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 THATCHER, CLARK 
 
 Private Company K 168th Infantry 
 Died April, 1919. 
 Relative's address, U. C, Thatch- 
 er, Kingsley, Iowa. 
 Enlisted April 10, 1917. Served 
 with 168th. Gassed on June 
 18, 1918. Rejoined the regiment 
 on August 14th, transferred to 
 Divisional Headquarters and re- 
 turned to his company just be- 
 fore the armistice was signed. 
 While in Germany he was sent 
 to the hospital on December 20 
 to 26 and returned to the com- 
 pany and again sent to the hos- 
 pital on January 22. He was 
 sent from there to America 
 where he arrived March 26th at 
 Newport News and from there to 
 
 / /Spartansburg, South Carolina, 
 - where he died about the middle 
 of April. 
 
 ALTHAR, OSCAR 
 
 Private Company L 
 Relative's address, Mrs. Anna 
 Bell Althar, 128 Exchange Street, 
 Keokuk, Iowa. 
 
 Private Althar enUsted July 30th, 
 1917 and after we had moved to 
 Camp Mills was taken sick and 
 sent to the hospital in New York 
 City. From there he was sent to 
 Baltimore for an operation. He 
 was given an honorable dis- 
 charge and returned to his home. 
 He was taken ill, sent to the 
 hospital, where he died on July 
 21, 1918. He was 19 years of 
 age. 
 
 He was given a military funeral 
 and buried at Wayland, Missouri. 
 
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 LIEUTENANT-COLONEL CLAUDE M. STANLEY 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel 1 68th Infantry. Served as a Major of Second Battalion until the latter part 
 
 of the Summer. Was made Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment during 
 
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THE journey back home was far different from the journey going 
 over. Our bands were playing all the day and the ship was ablaze 
 with light at night, moving picture shows, dancing, boxing and every 
 form of amusement was furnished to the happy men homeward bound. 
 On the morning of April 25 we caught the first gleam of the American 
 shore, which we had left eighteen months before. In the afternoon we 
 moved down the harbor with the returning tide, amidst screaming whistles 
 and bellowing fog horns. We were joyfully received by old New York. 
 Iowa had sent a delegation, which came out in tug boats to meet and greet 
 us and when it came alongside the giant liner, with a large sign saying 
 "Iowa Greets the 168th," a mighty roar went up from the twelve thou- 
 sand home-hungry boys and again as we passed the Statue of Liberty the 
 boys cheered this mighty emblem of the land to which we were returning. 
 
 At 6 :30 the boat swung into dock. At 8 we said goodby to the splen- 
 did chaps in the navy, who had taken us safely over and brought us tri- 
 umphantly back. We moved out to the edge of the wharf and for the 
 first time in eighteen months we greeted those who had waited so patiently 
 and prayerfully for our safe return. Of the happy scenes that followed I 
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 FATE'S UNKIND FAREWELL 
 
 But even our happiness of that night was tempered by the sorrow of 
 a tragedy, for fate played a last cruel prank on one of the members of 
 our regiment. Major Henry Bunch, D. S. C, who was one of the first 
 American officers to go across and who had served several months with 
 the British forces, and who upon pure merit had been raised to a cap- 
 tain, then was made a major and while with us was given a D. S. C. for 
 gallantry in action and to whose skill and devotion to duty many a 
 wounded boy owes his life. He had just stepped ashore, and started out 
 to greet a loved one and had gone but a little way when he was killed by 
 an automobile collision. A more cruel prank of fate would be hard to 
 imagine. 
 
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OUR RECEPTION IN IOWA 
 
 We stayed a couple of weeks in Camp Upton where the regiment was 
 divided and sent to different camps for mustering out and with the re- 
 mainder of the regiment that had marched away so proudly, three thou- 
 sand seven hundred strong, we started back to the old state with about 
 twelve hundred men. 
 
 We were divided into three trains, one coming into the state by the 
 way of Keokuk, one by Davenport and Cedar Rapids and one by Dubuque 
 and Waterloo. The thousands of people, wild with enthusiasm, that 
 greeted our train all along the line, the warm welcome which they ex- 
 tended to us, made us forget the trials of the trip and to feel that we had 
 been doubly paid for whatever service we may have rendered to the State 
 and to the Nation. 
 
 As long as I live I never shall forget our parade in Des Moines. Peo- 
 ple from all parts of the state came to pay homage to the Iowa regiment, 
 which had had the privilege of helping to defeat the Huns and thus right 
 the great wrongs that had been done to the small nations of Europe. They 
 thronged the streets of the city, swarmed over the state house grounds 
 and kept up a continual cheering as our boys, with eyes straight to the 
 front, came swinging down Walnut street, back on Locust to the Capitol, 
 where they were reviewed by the Governor of the State. The next day the 
 boys were mustered out at Camp Dodge and as the war clouds rolled back 
 and the great storm, which had shaken the governments of the world to 
 their very foundations, had come to a close, the Rainbow disappeared with 
 the clouds. 
 
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^ahle of Contents 
 
 Page 
 
 Dedication 7 
 
 Foreword 9 
 
 History of the Old Third Iowa 11 
 
 Organization 19 
 
 Photos and Records of Boys who Died Going Over - - 26-37 
 
 First "Hitch-Up" in Lorraine 39 
 
 Lorraine Dead 46-101 
 
 Champagne Defense 103 
 
 Those who Fell in Champagne 117-153 
 
 Chateau Thierry Drive 155 
 
 The Awful Toll of Chateau Thierry 161-275 
 
 Reducing the St. Mihiel Salient 277 
 
 And Those who Paid at St. Mihiel 282-323 
 
 Argonne Offensive 325 
 
 The Argonne Dead 329-389 
 
 Drive to Sedan 391 
 
 Those who Fell in the Drive 395-397 
 
 Occupation of the Rhine 399 
 
 'Photographs 
 
 Chaplain Robb ............ 4 
 
 General Lincoln ............ \2 
 
 Colonel Loper 14 
 
 Lieutenant Bennett 16 
 
 Colonel Bennett 20 
 
 Colonel Tinley 22 
 
 Colonel Stanley 412 
 
 Regimental Staff 414 
 
 Major Bunch 416 
 
Full Pa^e Etchings 
 
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 Our First "Hitch-Up" in Lorraine 40 
 
 "On Ne Passe Pass" 102 
 
 Up by Chateau Thierry 154 
 
 The St. Mihiel Drive 276 
 
 In the Argonne 324 
 
 Up Toward Sedan 389 
 
 American Watch on the Rhine 398 
 
 Illustrations 
 
 Camp of Old Third Iowa 
 
 Summer of 1898 14 
 
 Views Going Over ...-.----.- 24 
 
 Scenes in Lorraine ......42 
 
 Another Page of Lorraine Views 44 
 
 Scenes in Champagne 104 
 
 Effects of Boche Shelling— Champagne 108 
 
 Around Chateau Thierry 156 
 
 On the Woevre Plain— St. Mihiel 278 
 
 In the Argonne Woods ...--.--. 326 
 
 French Rural Scenes 392 
 
 Along the Rhine 400 
 
 Homeward Bound 411 
 
 Final Review at Camp Upton 418 
 
 Victory Arch — Des Moines 419 
 
 Where Our Boys Rest in France ....... 421