Honor Roll, The Argonne Dead

Argonne Offensive 

 
 
 

Photograph

 

Leland D. Scott

   

Corporal Machine Gun Company

#399843

 


      Killed October 15th, during the Argonne 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 doing, 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.

   
   

Peter Savoy

   

Private Company C

#100549

 


        Killed October 15th, in the Argonne Forest near Bois de Chatillon. Private Savoy, with his company, were getting ready to attack 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 Chateau Thierry and was in the hospital from July 26th to October 5th. Emergency address, Chas. Varelles, Chicago, Illinois.

Photograph

Unobtainable

 
 
   

Page 344

     

 

~reference: "THE PRICE OF OUR HERITAGE", W. E. Robb,  1919 American Lithography and Printing Company, Des Moines, Iowa. Page 344.

~ scanned and submitted by Cay Merryman