Gobind Sahai Jaye
Submitted by: Tanveer Kalo
Gobind Sahai Jaye served in World War 1 with the United States Army . The dates of service are: May 26 1918 to Unknown.
Gobind Sahai Jaye was on October 15, 1895 in Sialkote, British India. He immigrated to the United States on September 14, 1913. Jaye settled down in Chicago, Illinois.
On June 5, 1917, Jaye registered for the U.S. military. He entered into the U.S Army on May 26, 1918.
On August 9, 1918, he petitioned for naturalization in Macon, Georgia as U.S. Army soldier at age of 22.
At some point after August 1918, Jaye was deployed to France with a medical supply depot unit.
Private First Class Jaye of the medical department left Brest, France on August 26 ,1919 and arrived in Brooklyn , New York on September 5, 1919 for Camp Merritt, New Jersey on ship Aeolus.
After the war, Gobind Sahai Jaye returned to Chicago.
On June 16, 1923, Jaye married Mary Daeschler.
Chandra Lachman Singh
Submitted by: Tanveer Kalo
Chandra Lachman Singh served in World War 1 with the United States Army. The dates of service are: Unknown .
Chandra Lachman Singh was born on May 14, 1895 in Grenada, West Indies, Great Britain. He arrived to the United States on August 2, 1913.
He settled down in Chicago, Illinois. Singh registered for the U.S. military on June, 5 1917.
On October 23, 1918, Singh departed from Hoboken, New Jersey with his unit, Headquarters Company, 8th Infantry on the ship Princess Matoika to France.
He departed from Brest, France on July 11, 1919 with his unit and arrived to Hoboken, New Jersey on July 20, 1919 on the ship Plattsburg.
After the war, he returned to Chicago. He married Merissa P. Rathau on January 17, 1924 in Manhattan, New York.
By 1940, at the age of 44, he was working as salesman and living with his wife Merissa Singh.
Chandra Lachman Singh died in December 1989.
Maj. Gen. Walter G. Farrell, USMC
Submitted by: Dana Tibbitts
Maj. Gen. Walter G. Farrell served in World War 1 with the United States Marine Corps. The dates of service are: Known 1916-1946.
My grandfather, Major General Walter Greatsinger Farrell, best known as “Great,” joined the Marine Corps in 1917 after a brief stint in the Army. A consummate storyteller, Great fought in WWI and WWII, earning a Silver Star for “exceptional heroism against the Japanese.” Between wars he served in Haiti, Nicaragua, and later China, where he commanded the 3rd Marine Air Wing. In 1945, Farrell reported for duty at El Toro as deputy commander, 11th Naval District Air Bases.
‘Banana Wars’ author Ivan Musicant referred to Great as “the most fascinating man person I’ve ever met.” He was a resident of San Diego for more than 60 years. At the time of his death in 1990, Great was the oldest living naval aviator in the United States, and held two of the few pilot’s licenses signed by Orville Wright.
Walter Greatsinger Farrell in WWI
Parris Island & Quantico, 1917-18
The fledgling four-square-mile training base in balmy South Carolina was enjoying a construction boom, garnering its reputation as the “Hot Bed of the Marine Corps.” But the explosive growth on the base at the outset of WWI had its downside. New recruits arrived to discover that the depot was plumb out of uniforms. Instead, each man was issued two pairs of pajamas while they awaited the arrival of the next shipment of regulation shirts and trousers. For a week or so, they were stuck in their skivvies, listening to lectures on military discipline and esprit de corps.
Purushottam Bhikajee Mulye
Submitted by: Tanveer Kalo
Purushottam Bhikajee Mulye served in World War 1 with the United States Army. The dates of service are: Known March 25, 1918 to December 17, 1918.
Purushottam Bhikajee Mulye was born on Feburary 14, 1884 in Bombay, India to Bhekajie V. Mulye and Gungabai Nimker. He arrived to New York City on October 27, 1912 from Southampton, England on the ship St. Louis, which was under the command of Master F M Dassow.
Mulye made his way to Ohio State University and was part of the Cosmopolitan Club, which helped native and foreign students interact with each other and learn about each others' cultures. Mulye then went to Sunbury, Pennsylvania, where enlisted in the U.S Army on March 25, 1918 at age of 24.
As part of his service he was sent to the school of aerial photography in Rochester, New York until October 3, 1918. Then he was assigned to Langley Field in Hampton, Virginia until October 5, 1918. Afterwards, Mulye was with the school of aerial photography at Langley Field until November 12, 1918. He also was at Madison Barracks in New York at some point during his service. His second to last assignment was at Camp Garden City in New York until November 18, 1918.
Lester W. Chase
Submitted by: T.J. Cullinane
Lester W. Chase served in World War 1 with the United States Army. The dates of service are: Known 1916 - 1918.
The First to Fall; a Dreaded Milestone
Private Lester W. Chase, a shoemaker turned soldier, was the first service member from Derry, New Hampshire, to die of wounds sustained in combat during the First World War. Even with the 100th anniversary of his death fast approaching, his name remains firmly rooted in the fabric of the town as his fellow veterans elected to designate their meeting place as the Lester W. Chase Post Nine of the American Legion. Three generations of Legion baseball players have taken to the field with his name emblazoned on their chest, just one example of the community activities conducted in his good name.
Chase was pre-deceased by two Derry soldiers who succumbed to pneumonia. Charles E. Bitgood died in France on February 3, 1918, while assigned to the 2nd Infantry Division’s 15th Artillery Regiment. Just 22 years old, he was buried in the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, in Romagne, France. An excerpt from the Derry Enterprise published on February 12, 1918, contained the following sentiment, “Charles E. Bitgood's memory will ever be honored as being the first soldier boy enlisted from Derry to answer the last roll call on the soil of France, while engaged in the service of his country in that foreign land.”
In spite of this exhortation, it is the memory of Lester W. Chase that remains honored rather than that of Bitgood. Such is the “glamor” of death in combat. As we’ll soon see, the death of Lester Chase was anything but glamorous. Based on the information currently available, Frederick R. Huson, the other Derry soldier who died before Chase, appears to have passed away just two weeks after joining the Army. Huson died while undergoing basic training on April 9, 1918 at Camp Devens in neighboring Massachusetts. Bitgood and Huson, along with Chase, are memorialized on the tablet set aside for those who died in service on the town’s World War One monument.
Thomas William Butterbaugh
Submitted by: Raymond W Schaffranek
Thomas William Butterbaugh served in World War 1 with the United States Army. The dates of service are: Known July 22, 1918 - November 11, 1918.
Thomas William Butterbaugh, the first son of William and Mary (Nagle) Butterbaugh (aka Booterbaugh), was born on December 23, 1894, in Mark Hanna, Cambria County, Pennsylvania. He was working in a coal mine at age 15.
At age 22, he was single, living in Lilly, Cambria Co, PA, and working as a coal miner in Cassandra, PA, when he registered for the military service draft on June 5, 1917.
On July 22, 1918, he was inducted into the US Army at South Fork, PA, and sent to Camp Lee, VA, for training. He served as a Private with the American Expeditionary Forces from September 8, 1918 to November 11, 1918.
On September 8, 1918, he sailed overseas out of Newport News, VA, as part of the 69th Provisional Company August Replacement Draft on the USS Madawaska, which was originally the German steamship Konig Wilhelm II.
Wali Muhommad
Submitted by: Tanveer Kalo
Wali Muhommad served in World War 1 with the United States Army. The dates of service are: Known July 17, 1917 to August 18, 1919.
Private Wali Muhommad was born about 1896 in Peshawar, British India. He enlisted in the U.S Army at the age of 21 on July 17, 1917 in Buffalo, New York. .Muhommad's New York state military service abstract listed his race as white.
He served with Battery A 3rd Field Artillery( Battery A 106 Field Artillery until December 23, 1918. Then he served with Company D Battalion 2 Army military police until April 14, 1919. Muhommad was then with 299 military police company until his discharge.
Muhommad departed from Newport News, Virginia on the ship Matsonia with Battery A 106 Field Artillery on June 6, 1918 He served overseas from June 6, 1918 to August 10, 1919 and was honorably discharged on August 18, 1919.
He filed a petition for naturalization with the New York Supreme Court on August 28, 1919.
On March 8, 1938 at age of 41 Wali Muhommad arrived to New York City from London on the ship American Farmer.
Gordit Singh
Submitted by: Tanveer Kalo
Gordit Singh served in World War 1 with the United States Army. The dates of service are: Known August 7, 1917 to February 14, 1919.
Gordit Singh was born in India about 1883. He enlisted in the U.S Army or Regular Army at Fort Slocum in New York on August 7, 1917.
He was with Company L 50th Infantry until August 10, 1917. Then he was with Company L 23rd Infantry until his discharge.
Singh was promoted to private first class on December 10, 1917. He served overseas from September 7, 1917 to November 23, 1918.
Singh was honorably discharged on February 14, 1919 and was reported as 10% disabled at the time.
Gorbit Singh died on September 11, 1934 and is buried at the Cypress Hills National Cemetery in New York.
James John Dolan
Submitted by: Ed Saunders
James John Dolan served in World War 1 with the United States Coast Guard. The dates of service are: Known January 1917-August 1918.
Records of the state adjutant general, Montana state library, Helena, Montana, read James John Dolan as the sole World War I Coast Guard veteran enlisting from Montana.
He apparently served two tours-of-duty in the Coast Guard. His last tour was from Miles City, Montana. Dolan enlisted January 6, 1917, and served one year, seven months, and six days on the Coast Guard Revenue Cutter, Bear.
Dolan is buried in Golden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, California.