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Love of Country |
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The photographs of the Gold Stars listed
here were unobtainable. Every possible means was exercised to procure
them, but the effort proved of no avail.
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"Greater love hath no man
than this,
that a man lay down
his life for his friends."
----- Jesus
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Henry Grover Fluckiger
| September 26, 1892 |
December 9, 1918 |
Machinist Co. A, Naval Aviation Corps
Died of bronchial pneumonia at the Great Lakes Naval
Training Station.
Buried in Graceland Park Cemetery, December 11, 1918.
Son of Ernest Fluckiger, formerly residing in Sioux City;
now living at 655 Fifteenth Avenue, West, Cedar Rapids,
Iowa. |
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Thomas Lee
Pvt. in Quartermaster Corps.
Died in an accident near the Argonne Forest, January 16,
1918
Records only show that he enlisted in Sioux City, July 24,
1918, and gave only the address of a friend, Albert Hagen,
whose residence was recorded as 10 West Thirteenth Street,
Sioux City. This person cannot be located. |
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Bert. L. Smith
Pvt. Co. K, 168th Infantry.
Contracted serious illness at Rimancourt, France, and died
at Base Hospital No. 15, at Chaumont, on March 30, 1918.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Smith, Elk Point, S. D. |
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William Conrad Nigg
| September 16, 1887 |
October 3, 1918 |
Pvt. Co. C, 313th Ammunition Train.
Died of pneumonia at Base Hospital No. 30, in France.
Buried in American Cemetery near Clermont Ferrand, France.
Son of Mrs. Henrietta Nigg, now residing at 1104 Colorado
Street, Davenport, Iowa |
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Arthur W. Fluke
Pvt. 33rd Field Hospital Co.
Died of pneumonia March 20, 1918, at Camp Cody, New Mexico.
Buried in the Camp Cody Cemetery, March 2-, 1918.
Little can be learned of Private Fluke's history. He for
many years previous to his enlistment in Sioux City. His
brother is reported to live in Chicago, but efforts to
reach him have proved fruitless. |
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