Honor Roll, The Argonne Dead

Argonne Offensive 

 
 
 

Aaron Owens

   

Private Company C

#1891356


       
       Killed at the Argonne Forest, October 16th.  Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Owens, Westminster, South Carolina.  Private Owens was with his company advancing between Hill 242 and Hill 288.  He was hit in the head by a machine gun bullet and killed instantly.  He had served with the regiment at St. Mihiel.

   
   

Bert A. Nicely

   

Private Company C

#1568919


       
        Killed October 16, 1918 at Argonne Forest. Buried in Grave No. 2-41, near Hill 288. Map of Kriemhilde Stellung. Son of Mr. and Mrs. David Nicley, Advance, Indiana.  Private Nicley was killed in the charge on Hill 288. He was hit through the body by machine gun bullets and died a few minutes later.  He was with the regiment in the Lorraine Sector, Champagne and was wounded at Chateau Thierry.

 
 
   

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~reference: "THE PRICE OF OUR HERITAGE", W. E. Robb,  1919 American Lithography and Printing Company, Des Moines, Iowa. Page 359.

~ scanned and submitted by Cay Merryman