Monday, January 16, 2023

 The 26 University of Alabama alumni and students who lost their lives in the service to the United States during World War 1:

John Smith Henry, 1916; Bristol, Va.; 133rd Ambulance Corps, killed May 3, 1918.

Colonel Bertram Tracy Clayton, 1883; New York City; Quartermaster Department; killed by shell May 30, 1918.  from the June 5, 1918 Brooklyn Daily Eagle


First Lieutenant Eldridge W. Maynor, 1916: Crossville; 101st Field Artillery; killed in action     

from the 1917 COROLLA, yearbook of the University of Alabama







from the July 3, 1918 Oneonta Southern Democrat




 from the May 31, 1928 Oneonta Southern Democrat 

 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Tales_of_Old_Blount_County_Alabama/fnu6BQAAQBA;J?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Maynor+Field%22+Tuscaloosa&pg=PA351&printsec=frontcover

Maynor Field  https://www.google.com/books/edition/Alabama_Aviation/Z-ZDDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Maynor+Field%22+Tuscaloosa&pg=PA61&printsec=frontcover

First Lieutenant Ray P. Saffold, 1893; San Francisco (formerly of Selma); infantry; killed July 1918

Captain Mortimer H. Jordan, 1902; Birmingham; Company K, 167th Infantry, Rainbow Division, killed July 31, 1918.

Captain Julian M. Strassburger, 1912; Montgomery; machine gun company, Rainbow Division, killed July 31, 1918.

Lieutenant Julien W. Hohenberg, 1913; Wetumpka, infantry, killed July 18, 1918.

First Lieutenant Charles A. Lewis, 1916; Fayettte; Company B; 38th Infantry; killed July 16, 1918.

Lieutenant William Vance Wier, 1918; Gadsden, killed in airplane accident at Carothers Field, Fort Worth, Texas

Thomas G. Pennington, 1922; S.A.T.C. Hospital

Charles H. Searcy, 1922; Boaz; member of S.A.T.C.; November 11, 1918

John Paul "Booze" Jones, 1908; Birmingham; influenza; October 23, 1918.

First Lieutenant William P. Spratt, 1910; Livingston; 325th Infantry; killed October 14, 1918.

Marion Louise Walter, 1918; Marion Louise Walter (5 January 1918 – 10 October 1918) graduated from the University of Alabama with a Bachelor of Science in 1918. Miss Walter then served as a student nurse in Philadelphia during World War I where she succumbed to the Spanish Influenza epidemic. While at UA she participated in the Kappa Delta sorority, the Y.W.C.A., the Athletic Association, the Suffrage Association, and the campus Red Cross Unit. 



Lieutenant Farley Moody, 1912; Tuscaloosa; 325th Infantry; killed October 11, 1918.

First Lieutenant Orville Coston, 1918; Birmingham; Company A; 320th Infantry; killed October 1918.

Lieutenant John Brown Gaston, 1912; Montgomery; infantry; Fort Bliss, Texas; died of influenza, October 11, 1918.

Lieutenant G. Waring Huston, 1917; Selma; Company K; 325th Infantry; killed October 16, 1918 in the Argonne Forest (recommended for the Distinguished Service Cross).

Herbert A. Higgins, 1919; Montgomery; O.T.S.; Camp Taylor; influenza; October 13, 1918.

Lieutenant Lamar Y. McLeod, 1908; Mobile; 3rd Infantry; killed October 11, 1918.

Lieutenant Finley B. Durrett, 1917; Northport; Battery A; 320th Field Artillery; killed by shell; October 19, 1918.

Lieutenant Joseph W. Freeman, 1913; Wetumpka; Quartermaster Department; lost on Ticonderoga; September 10, 1918.

Clarence H. Crawford, 1918;

Lester J. Snow, 1909; naval aviation trainee in Boston; died of influenza in a Chelsea military hospital on September 30, 1918.

Corporal Gordon Mercer, 1919; Demopolis; 83rd Company; 6th Marine Corps; killed June 8, 1918.

Louis B. Braswell, 1919; Demopolis; U.S. Marine Corps; died of wounds.

Battle Stragglers  http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/pdf/stragglers.pdf






https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_L._Sibert

 










 Sibert Avenue in Destin, Florida is named for General Franklin C. Sibert, son of General William L. Sibert.

Soldiers of the 167th Infantry Regiment man positions near St. Benoit, on the Meuse River, during the St. Mihiel offensive, September 1918.


Memorial in Fère-en-Tardenois (France).




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