Honor Roll, The Argonne Dead

Argonne Offensive 

 
 
 

Photograph

Unobtainable

 

John J. Gramley

   

Private Machine Gun Company

#1486856

 


      Killed October 16, 1918 at Argonne Forest. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Gramley, Cresent (sic), 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 instantly. He had been in the St. Mihiel advance and this was his second battle.

   
   

Nels Thompson

   

Private First Class Company C

#100540

 


      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 almost instantly. He had been advancing with his company and was firing an automatic rifle when he was hit.
 

Photograph

Unobtainable

 
 
   

Page 352

     

 

~reference: "THE PRICE OF OUR HERITAGE", W. E. Robb,  1919 American Lithography and Printing Company, Des Moines, Iowa. Page 352.

~ scanned and submitted by Cay Merryman