Harry Wooten

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.

Thomas Arklese

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 regiment sailed for France and died two days after we had departed.