Honor Roll of Boys who Died Going Over 

 
 

 

William D. Hamilton

   

Private Company L

#102297

 

    

      

       Killed July 27, 1918 at Chateau Thierry near Epieds. Son of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Hamilton, Rock Island, Illinois. Side by side with Sergeant Bunyan, fell Private Hamilton, a smaller man but justly entitled to a high place in the memory of his comrades and friends.

   
   
   
   

Oliver Wendell Holmes

   

Sergeant Company L

#102225

 

    

 

      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.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

 
 
   

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