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World War 1 Officers Memorial Wall
[edit]There are 114 plaques on the World War 1 Memorial Wall of the 28th Division Shrine located at Boalsburg, PA. The plaques are listed in order starting from the left or west side.
1Lt Joseph H. FERGUSSON
110th Infantry
Died of wounds on 29 Sept 1918 at Varennes, France
1Lt John W. DAY
110th Infantry
Died of wounds on 6 Sept 1918 at Sergy, France
Lieutenant Day of the Machine Gun Company while rendering valuable assistance to Major Anderson was mortally wounded by shrapnel and died on 6 Sept 1918.
1Lt William S. BONSALL
110th Infantry
Killed 27 Sept 1918 at Varennes, France
1Lt Samuel S. CROUSE
110th Infantry
Killed on 15 July 1918 at Aisne-Saint-Agnan, France
2Lt Richard S. BULLITT
110th Infantry
Killed on 29 July 1918 at Cierges, France
| 2Lt Henry Q. GRIFFIN | 109th Infantry | Killed 15 July 1918 | Champagne-Marne | |
| 2Lt Edward B. GOWARD | 109th Infantry | Killed 29 July 1918 | Aisne-Marne | |
| 2Lt Thomas Wanamaker FALES | 109th Infantry | Killed 31 July 1918 | Aisne-Marne | |
| 2Lt Thomas SCHWINN | 109th Infantry | Killed 5 Sept 1918 | Oise-Aisne | |
| 1Lt Albert H. CRANE | 109th Infantry | Killed 6 Sept 1918 | Oise-Aisne | |
| Capt Franklin Dunkel WOLFE | 109th Infantry | Killed 6 Sept 1918 | Oise-Aisne | |
| 2Lt Hazzard MELLOY | 109th Infantry | Killed 7 Sept 1918 | Oise-Aisne | |
| 2Lt Ralph Ashburn BRANCH | 109th Infantry | Killed 31 July 1918 | Aisne-Marne | |
| 1Lt Earl R. DAVIS | 109th Infantry | 09-Sep-18 | Oise-Aisne | |
| 1Lt John Henry LITSCHERT | 109th Infantry | 07-Sep-18 | Oise-Aisne | |
| 2Lt Charles Bedford COSTEN | 109th Infantry | 31-Jul-18 | Aisne-Marne | |
| 2Lt Daniel P. LAFFERTY | 109th Infantry | 27-Sep-18 | Meuse-Argonne | |
| 2Lt James A. BONSACK Jr | 109th Infantry | 29-Sep-18 | Meuse-Argonne | |
| Capt George Neiman KEMP | 109th Infantry | 28-Sep-18 | Meuse-Argonne | |
| 2Lt Robert S. BROWN | 109th Infantry | 01-Oct-18 | Meuse-Argonne | |
| 1LT Cornelius J. McCaARTHY | 109th Infantry | 01-Oct-18 | Meuse-Argonne | |
| 2Lt Herbert OTTO | 109th Infantry | 06-Oct-18 | Meuse-Argonne | |
| 1Lt Frank Merritt STEWART | 109th Infantry | 08-Oct-18 | Meuse-Argonne | |
| 2Lt John Moore PAXTON Jr | 109th Infantry | 03-Sep-18 | Oise-Aisne | |
| Capt Charles H. CROWE | 109th Infantry | 11-Nov-18 | Thiaucourt Sector | |
| 1Lt Francis R. AUSTIN | 109th Infantry | 11-Nov-18 | Thiaucourt | |
| 2Lt Holyoke Lewis WHITNEY | 109th Infantry | 25-Nov-18 | France | |
| 2Lt William B. DeLOACH, Jr | 109th Infantry | 30-Nov-18 | France | |
| 2Lt Thomas A. HOLDEN | 107th Machine Gun Battalion | 01-Oct-18 | Apremont-Meuse | |
| 1Lt Lewis H. BOSS | 108th Machine Gun Battalion | 06-Sep-18 | Fismes-Fismette | |
| 2Lt Fred B. PROCTOR | 108th Machine Gun Battalion | 29-Sep-18 | Argonne Forest | |
| 1Lt Howard Lee STROHL | 109th Machine Gun Battalion | 09-Aug-18 | Fismes | |
| Capt Hurbert D. RYMAN | 107th Field Artillery | 17-Aug-18 | Fismes | |
| 2Lt Lester M. SMITH | 107th Field Artillery | 02-Oct-18 | Montblaineville | |
| 2Lt Willis D. STORER | 107th Field Artillery | 03-Oct-18 | Montblaineville |
ADC Hqs, 53rd Field Artillery Brig
Killed 18 August 1918 at Arcis-Le-Ponsart
The day he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, Henry joined the Pennsylvania National Guard to serve at the U.S.-Mexican border during the U.S. punitive expedition against Pancho Villa in 1916. After leaving the border, he joined the Ambulance Corps in France. When the United States officially joined the war, Henry returned to America and trained with the U.S. Army.
He returned to France as an aerial observation officer. Lieutenant Houston II was killed in WW1 in Arcis-Le Ponsart, France on 18 Aug 1918 having volunteered to go to a position near the lines to give instructions regarding the proper liaison between the air forces and batteries.
He is memorialized by a plaque on the Pennsylvania 28th Division Shrine in Boalsburg, PA. A memorial and street are named in his honor in Arcis-Le Ponsart. He is buried at Suresnes American Cemetery (Plot B Row 16 Grave 28, ) in Paris.
| 2Lt Frederic B. PRITCHETT | 110th Field Artillery | 06-Sep-18 | Vesle River | |
| 2Lt.Lloyd T. GRUBBS, Lloyd T | 109th Field Artillery | 02-Oct-18 | Mountblaineville | |
| 1Lt William C. STEVENSON | 109th Infantry | 29-Jul-18 | Aisne-Marne | |
| Lt Earl R. CHURCHILL | 109th Infantry | 07-Aug-18 | Cergy | |
| Capt GEARTY, Walter M. | 109th Infantry | 16-Jul-18 | Champagne-Marne | |
| 1Lt DYER, William R. | 109th Infantry | 15-Jul-18 | Champagne-Marne | |
| 1Lt BATEMAN, William | 109th Infantry | 15-Jul-18 | Champagne-Marne | |
| 1Lt TAYLOR, Howard C. | 109th Infantry | 04-May-18 | Hoboken, NJ | |
| 1Lt MAC NUTT, Donald | 110th Infantry | 15-Jul-18 | Champagne-Marne | |
| Lt. SMALL, Wilbur B. | 110th Infantry | 30-Jul-18 | Aisne-Marne | |
| Lt. ROWAN, Charles R. | 110th Infantry | 18-Oct-18 | Apremont | |
| 1Lt George T. RODGERS | 110th Infantry | 29-Jul-18 | Aisne-Marne | |
| Lt. GUY, Bert | 110th Infantry | 09-Oct-18 | Champagne-Marne | |
| Lt. DICKEY, Stephen W. | 110th Infantry | 27-Sep-18 | Argonne Forest | |
| 1Lt Elmer S. ECAY | 110th Infantry | 27-Sep-18 | Argonne Forest | |
| Lt. WALTER, Authur | 110th Infantry | 30-Jul-18 | Aisne-Marne | |
| Lt FUGE, Edward W. | 110th Infantry | 19-Aug-18 | Fismes-Fismette | |
| 1Lt FELDMAN, Jacob | 110th Infantry | 06-Sep-18 | Basleauz | |
| Lt. SIMPSON | 110th Infantry | 08-Oct-18 | Chatel-Chehery | |
| Lt. HAZLEHURST, Samuel | 110th Infantry | 28-Sep-18 | Meuse-Argonne | |
| 1Lt HORN, Leslie W. | 110th Infantry | 01-Oct-18 | Meuse-Argonne | |
| Lt JACKSON, Leonard | 110th Infantry | 25-Aug-18 | Vesle River | |
| Lt MASSEY Jr., Thomas | 110th Infantry | 30-Jul-18 | Aisne-Marne | |
| Lt. PERINE, Nelson W. | 110th Infantry | 30-Jul-18 | Aisne-Marne | |
| 2Lt LAIRD, Clarence | 110th Infantry | 29-Sep-18 | Meuse-Argonne | |
| 2lt CALDWELL, Wm. F. | 110th Infantry | 09-Oct-18 | Baslieux | |
| 1Lt ASPINWALL, Augustus | 110th Infantry | 26-Aug-18 | Villette |
Capt James E. ZUNDELL
110th Infantry
Killed by a shell fragment on 30-Jul-18 at Courmont
Captain James E. Zundell, commander of Company E, a man who held the admiration of his superior officers and was loyally loved by his men, was hit by a shell fragment on July 29th and died in hospital on 110th Infantry
| Capt BRADDOCK, Howard C. | 110th Infantry, Supply Co. | 24-Oct-18 | Bernecourt | |
| Lt. DUBS, Valentine E. | 110th Infantry | 23-Oct-18 | Moselle | |
| Capt THOMPSON, Orville | 111th Infantry | 13-Aug-18 | Fismes |
Col. Theodore D. BOAL, D.S.C
Sacred to the Memory of
Col. Theodore D. BOAL, D.S.C
Headquarters 28th Division
Born: June 24, 1867
Died: August 22, 1938
Erected by his Friends, Officers of the
28th Division A.E.F.
1939
111th Infantry
Killed on 10-Aug-18 at Fismette, France
Captain Edmund Wright Lynch was posthumously presented with the Distinguished Service Cross (for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 111th Infantry Regiment, 28th Division, A.E.F., at Fismette, France. Seeing two of his platoons being cut off by the enemy. Captain Lynch alone went to their rescue and engaged the enemy with his automatic pistol, killing several. He saved his platoons, but in so doing sacrificed his own life on 10 August 1918.
111th Infantry
Died of poison gas on 08-Sep-18 at St. Gilles – Fismette'
Dr. Michael Keith was an ordained minister. He became the Chaplain for the 111 Infantry Regiment, 56 Infantry Brigade, 28 Infantry Division with the rank of First Lieutenant.
Arriving in France some 12 days later they were sent south of Saint-Omer to await the remainder of the division. On June 13 the division proceeded to the vicinity of Paris where it was attached to French troops for further training. For the next two months elements of the division were attached to various French and American divisions operating in the Chateau-Thierry Sector and participated in the Champagne-Marne Defensive and the Aisne-Marne Offensive. On August 7 the division as a whole relived the 32 Division and participated in the Oise-Aisne Offensive from August 18 to September 7, during which severe fighting was encountered. It was during this offensive that Chaplain Michael Wilson Keith lost his life due to German gas on September 8, 1918. There are several versions of the events that led to his death and some differences about the day he died.
Sergeant Major John J. Doran, Headquarters 111 Infantry Regiment gave this written account, February 20, 1919. “Chaplain Michael W. Keith was gassed in action, during a heavy shell fire, in a hollow on the St. Gilles-Fismes Road about a half mile southeast of Fismes on the night of September 6 and 7, 1918 and was evacuated to the hospital the morning of September 7, 1918. He died later at American Red Cross Hospital No. 3.”
Private William D. Wilson, 110th Ambulance Company: "(German Artillery) started to shell a hollow where the infantry’s supply train was, under command of him, and that afternoon Maj. Iland had left for the big city. (The Germans) shelled the hollow and got 24 men, one killed and 23 hurt and Keith was asked to help dress these men for there was only one medical man and Harold had been sent to another place or he might have been gassed like Keith and the rest. The hollow was filled with gas and it was hard to work with the mask on, so Keith said to him men ‘For the lives of 23 men I will die to save them and will work without my mask on’. So Keith took his mask off and worked eight hours dressing these men and lived from Thursday, September 5 to September 10. This happened about 10:30 p.m. and he worked until 6 o’clock the next morning. Chap. Keith was gassed internally and his eyes were badly burned. When I saw him he looked at me and said ‘Wilson. Wilson Dorman Wilson, I know you. I am going to die’. He stared at me for a few minutes and said, ‘Let’s pray’, and I will never forget the prayer he uttered. It was the greatest prayer I ever heard and I don’t think a man exists that can make a prayer like he did. After his prayer he said to me ‘Give my regards and goodbye to Capt. Wagner and officers of this company; also Maj. Iland and the boys’. After which I took him to the hospital”.
Lt. Keith is buried at the new Suresnes American Cemetery and Memorial, Suresnes, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France, Grave 24, Row 4, Plot B.
| Capt SCHLOSSER, Arthur S. | 111th Infantry | 29-Sep-18 | Argonne Forest | |
| 2Lt FLETCHER, Lee C. | 111th Infantry | 08-Sep-18 | Fismes | |
| Capt FIELDING, Louis H. | 111th Infantry | 06-Sep-18 | Aisne Heights | |
| 1Lt ETTINGER, Walter | 111th Infantry | 09-Sep-18 | Coinzy | |
| 2Lt PAINTER, Harold W. | 111th Infantry | 03-Oct-18 | Meuse-Argonne | |
| Lt. BUSCH, Ralph S. | 111th Infantry | 11-Aug-18 | Fismes-Fismette | |
| Lt. Poffenberger, Geo. F. | 111th Infantry | 03-Oct-18 | Argonne Forest | |
| Lt. RICE, Wilhelmus M. | 111th Infantry | 02-Oct-18 | Meuse-Argonne | |
| Capt CLARK, John M. | 111th Infantry, Company F | 11-Aug-18 | Oise-Aisne | |
| 2Lt REESE, Earl Leroy | 111th Infantry | 10-Oct-18 | Meuse-Argonne |
111th Infantry
Killed on 24 August 1918 at Fismette, France
After attending Plattsburg Training Camp in July of 1916, Fiske joined the American Ambulance Field Service. He was sent to Pont-a-Mousson and then went to Macedonia with the French Army. In understated diction, the memoirist of the Class of 1919 remarks: "That winter in the Balkans taught him the severities of serious warfare."
Fiske returned to Harvard in 1917 for the first part of his junior year. In January 1918, he left for officer's training camp, and in July he received his commission as second lieutenant and was ordered to Paris to join a combat division. Seven days after his arrival at the front lines, he was severely wounded in a battle of the Oise-Aisne offensive.
| 1Lt WOODBURY, Robert B. | 111th Infantry | 14-Aug-18 | Aisne-Marne | |
| 2Lt BROOKS, Daniel W. | 111th Infantry | 06-Sep-18 | Oise-Aisne | |
| Lt GLENDENNING, Frank | 111th Infantry | 12-Aug-18 | Fismes-Fismette | |
| Lt GUNDLACH, Henry W. | 111th Infantry | 11-Aug-18 | Fismes-Fismette | |
| Lt. KIRK, Frank R. | 111th Infantry | 04-Nov-18 | Lorraine | |
| Lt. LARNER, Leland S. | 111th Infantry | 12-Aug-18 | Fismes-Fismette | |
| Lt QUINN, John H.B. | 111th Infantry | 18-Jul-18 | Aisne-Marne | |
| Lt. VAUGHAN, Richard H. | 111th Infantry | 07-Sep-18 | Fismes |
1LT Robert H. ROAT
[edit]110th Infantry
Mars sur Allier, France
2nd Lieutenant Robert H. Roat was attached to Company K of the 110th Division on 2 August 1918. He was wounded by a gunshot wound on 8 October and admitted to the US Army BH #14 on 18 October from Evacuation Hospital #114 with a gunshot wound in his right thigh and right forearm which he received in action on 8 October. Additional diagnosis on 30 Oct indicated septicemia as a result of the gunshot wounds and Broncho Pnewmonia. He died on 1 Nov 1918 and was buried on 4 Nov in Grave H Military Cemetery, Mara-sur-Allier, France. From a statement by Cpl Ray F. Phillips, Company K, 110th Infantry, “I saw Lt. Rat when he was hit in the left side by a piece of shrapnel on October 8th, 1918. We were standing by a bank and had been operating a machine-gun. I was with the gun and he was bringing up ammunition for me. A shell destroyed the gun and we were standing talking when a piece of shell hit him in the side. We carried him back to the first aid station. This was on Hill No. 214 near the town of Chatel Chehery, France in the Argonne Offensive. “
| Hqs Company | Battery A | Battery B | Battery C | Battery D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph OHLMAN Mechanic | Charles J. SIPPLE Private | Joseph A. Huston 1st Sergeant | Edward T. EVANS Private | William G. KOLB Sergeant |
| Frank C. VALERIOUS Horseshoer | Peter ROSS Corporal | Robert F. MURRAY Private | Roy L. STEWART Private | Albert LYONS Private |
| Charles E. KUHN Private | Norman P. MICHEL Private | Thomas GILMARTIN Private | Eugene F. HONEYWELL Private | Edwin M. RAUB Private |
| Howard B. WILT Wagoner Supply | Russell G. MARBACK Private | John W. KEMRITE Private | William F. BUSCH Corporal | Barnet CONRAD Corporal |
| Charles AUMAN Cook | Christian G. HECKROTE Sergeant | Jessie THOMAS Private | William M. CRAWFORD Private | |
| Robert VANBUSKIRK Pvt Sanitary Det | Sylvester SULLIVAN Private | |||
| Patrick L. McGARRY Private | ||||
| Joseph E. FLEMING Private | ||||
| Peter STUKIS Private |
| 2Lt VonBEREGHY, Marcel | 111th Infantry | 06-Sep-18 | Fismette Plateau | |
| Lt LAUTERWASSER, Emil H. | 112th Infantry | 07-Aug-18 | Fismes | |
| 2Lt BROGAN, Thomas M. | 112th Infantry | 28-Sep-18 | Montblaineville | |
| Capt DOANE, Hugh R. | 112th Infantry | 29-Sep-18 | Chatel-Chehery | |
| Lt ABEL, Louis R. | 112th Infantry | 27-Sep-18 | Argonne Forest | |
| 2Lt VOLZ, Victor | 112th Infantry | 04-Oct-18 | Argonne Forest | |
| 1lt BLANKENSHIP, Fred. O. | 112th Infantry | 28-Sep-18 | Argonne Forest | |
| 2Lt LANDRY, Joseph A. | 112th Infantry | 27-Aug-18 | Fimes-Fismette | |
| 2Lt AGIN, Walter V. | 112th Infantry | 01-Oct-18 | Meuse-Argonne | |
| 2Lt ARNOLD, Robert F. | 112th Infantry | 13-Oct-18 | Argonne Forest | |
| Lt HOUGHTON, Randall S. | 112th Infantry | 29-Sep-18 | Montblaineville | |
| 1Lt FLEMING, Frank R. | 112th Infantry | 11-Oct-18 | Meuse-Argonne | |
| 2Lt SPEAKMAN, Harold | 112th Infantry | 25-Jul-18 | Aisne-Marne | |
| Col SHANNON, James A. | 112th Infantry | 08-Oct-18 | Meuse-Argonne | |
| Capt HENDERSON, James M. | 112th Infantry | 25-Jul-18 | near Epeids, France | |
| LtCol FLYNN, Walter J. | 112th Infantry | 29-Sep-18 | Argonne Forest | |
| 2Lt ORR Jr., William C | 112th Infantry | 15-Jul-18 | Champagne-Mare | |
| 2Lt RUSSELL, Alexander M. | 112th Infantry | 02-Nov-18 | Bois de Bonseil | |
| 2Lt KRIECHBAUM, Philip E. | 112th Infantry | 02-Oct-18 | Meuse-Argonne | |
| 2Lt McCARTHY, Daniel F. | 112th Infantry | 23-Oct-18 | Meuse-Argonne | |
| LtCol DUFFY, Frank, J | Scranton, PA 103rd Engineers | 17-Aug-18 | Courville | |
| Capt BALLAMY, John H. | 103rd Engineers | 09-Aug-18 | Fismes | |
| 1Lt Harry C. HILL | 103rd Engineers | 20-Aug-18 | Aisne-Marne | |
| 2Lt Harry D. THRASHER | 103rd Engineers / 40th Engr Reg | 11-Aug-18 | Fismes |
