George Washington Dick
Submitted by: Merrilee Jung
George Washington Dick served in World War One with the United States Army. The dates of service are: Unknown .
Company A, 36th infantry., 7th Snelling, Minnesota.
Chester William Arms
Submitted by: Kathy Huff
Chester William Arms served in World War One with the United States Army. The dates of service are: Known Jun 05, 1917.
Enlisted June 5, 1917 and was in 9 days because he got sick.
Charles Gilbert Miller
Submitted by: Nancy Miller
Charles Gilbert Miller served in World War 1 with the United States Army. The dates of service are: Unknown .
Served in the motor pool at Fort McHenry, where his unit was formed, preparing vehicles for shipment overseas.
Col. Norman J. Eckert
Submitted by: Richard Eckert, Sr. (son)
Col. Norman J. Eckert served in World War 1 with the United States Army. The dates of service are: Known 1920 - 1954.
Colonel Norman J. Eckert, WW I, WW II, Korean War era
Colonel Norman J. Eckert Bronze Star: Father of Edward (Ed) Colonel US Army; William (Bill) Lt. Col. U.S. Army; and Richard (Dick), Captain USAR (author). My Dad enlisted in WW I to follow his older brother Jack P. Eckert, he rose from private, sergeant and received a commission as a 2n Lt. in 1920. He rose in rank as acting commander of the 25 Division artillery in WW II.
Frank James Bleck
Submitted by: Beverly Przybylski
Frank James Bleck served in World War 1 with the United States Army. The dates of service are: Known Dec 18, 1916 - Jun 30, 1919.
Enlistment record: St. Mihiel Offensive Sep 12/18; Offensive of Sep 26/18 operating between Montfaucon & Very. Attached to 17th French Corps, east of Meuse North of Verdun, Oct 7-8, 1918 - Offensive of Nov. 1/18 against Bois de Loges, Forest de Argonne. He was promoted to Corporal while in France. He was furloughed to the reserves on Jun 30, 1919, and subsequently received an honorable discharge.
Herman Cornwell
Submitted by: Patricia Hein {great niece}
Herman Cornwell served in World War 1 with the United States Army. The dates of service are: Known 1917-1918.
Co I., 52nd U.S. Regulars
Glennie Long Tomlinson Miller
Submitted by: Nancy Miller
Glennie Long Tomlinson Miller served in World War 1 with the the United States Navy. The dates of service are: Unknown .
Enlisted as a Yeoman 3rd class. She was assigned to the Division of Supplies and Accounts Disbursements to make out transportation slips for the men. In an article that appeared in the Richmond VA Times Dispatch on 23 Jan 1973, she states that she drilled 3 times a week, marched in parades for bond sales, and was paid $2 per day.
Mary Coan Reilly Ravener
Submitted by: Bob Ravener (grandson)
Mary Coan Reilly Ravener served in World War 1 with the United States Marine Corps. The dates of service are: Known 1918-1922.
Mary Coan Reilly Ravener
One of the Few, the Proud… the First 300
By Bob Ravener
The United States Marine Corps has a long and proud tradition fighting America’s battles and after the U.S. declared war on Germany, were using virtually every active duty service member to fight in the Great War or training those preparing to fight. On 08 August 1918 that all changed when they took on another cause, women in uniform. That’s when Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels wrote a letter authorizing the Commandant of the Marine Corps to enlist women in the Marine Corps Reserve for clerical duty.
Six weeks later, on 24 September, a five foot tall, grey eyed, and auburn-haired Mary Coan Reilly, became one of those first women Marines.
During this period of global crisis and tumultuous change, a little more than 300 women donned the forest green uniform of the Corps, but selection was anything but easy for these aspiring Marines. In fact, it was extremely competitive. According to the book written by Captain Linda Hewitt in 1974, “In New York City alone, 2,000 hopeful applicants lined up...in reply to a newspaper article that the Marine Corps was looking for ‘intelligent young women’.” Mary was one of those many applicants and became one of only five or so to be selected to serve in New York at the Marine Corps Publicity Bureau in lower Manhattan. Most of the rest of these early pioneers served at Headquarters Marine Corps in Washington DC.
Leonard Louis Nutter
Submitted by: Rachel Hill
Leonard Louis Nutter served in World War One with the United States Army. The dates of service are: Unknown .
He fought in the battle of Muese-Argonne. He received a Purple Heart and a medal from that battle with two bronze service stars on his ribbon from Muese-Argonne.
He was shot in the lung in France where he almost died. He told my grandmother (his daughter) that he almost died because they wrapped him up very tight and he doesn't remember how long he laid in the trench before he got help. The hospital told him had he sat there any longer wrapped that tight that he would have died.