Sherman Harrison Turner
Submitted by: Laurie Button {He was killed with a soldier I am connected with.}
Sherman Harrison Turner born around 1894. Sherman Turner served in World War 1 with the United States Army. The enlistment was in 1918 and the service was completed in 1918.
Story of Service
Sherman Harrison Turner was killed on Nov. 10, 1918 by an artillery shell as the 11th Infantry fought to liberate the village of Louppy-sur-Loison during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
Five other American soldiers were killed by the same blast: Pvt. Thomas Wade ofCompany L (3270565—Lake City, Arkansas); Pvt. Miles G. Goleman, Company L (2660865, Greenup, Illinois); Cpl. Orval Boggs, Company L (2660977, Greenup, Illinois); Cpl. Henry Wilson Company G (736096, Jacksboro, Tennessee); and Pvt. Walter Wave Miguel Company L (3802505, Arnolds Park, Iowa).
They were initially buried where they fell but were reinterred next to each other at the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery June 18, 1919. All six were repatriated and sailed back to the United States together on the U.S.A.T. Wheaton. The ship left Antwerp Sept. 21, 1921.
Sinclair Gurnee Stewart
Submitted by: Andrea Aven {Granddaughter}
Sinclair Gurnee Stewart born around 1893. Sinclair Stewart served in World War 1 with the United States Navy. The enlistment was in 1917 and the service was completed in 1918.
Story of Service
Although born in Atlanta, Georgia, Sinclair Stewart's home town was Nyack, Rockland County, New York. First enlisted on 26 May 1916 with the New York National Guard (2nd Division, 1st Battalion), Stewart was in the U.S. Navy in World War I.
Serving from 6 April 1917 to 11 November 1918, he served as a seaman on the USS Ohio (BB-12), a training ship based at Norfolk, Virginia. He also served on the USS Prairie, a destroyer tender in home waters.
Stewart's final rank upon discharge was Quartermaster, 2nd Class.
Walter Wave Miguel
Submitted by: Laurie Button {Have been researching him for 30 years - it’s a long button wonderful story.}
Walter Wave Miguel born around 1887. Walter Miguel served in World War 1 with the United States Army. The enlistment was in 1918 and the service was completed in 1918.
Story of Service
Walter Wave Miguel (3802505) was born to Henry and Nellie Miguel in Arnolds Park, Iowa on Oct. 5, 1887. He was drafted and called into service July 22, 1918.
Wave received his training at Camp Pike near Little Rock, Arkansas before sailing for France on the Katoomba from the Port of New York Sept. 1, 1918. He was originally assigned to Company H of the 330th Infantry, but was transferred to the 5th Division’s 11th Infantry, Company L in mid-to-late October 1918.
Hoyt Alexander Canady
Submitted by: June Canady {daughter}
Hoyt Alexander Canady born around 1895. Hoyt Canady served in World War 1 with the United States Army. The enlistment was in 1917 and the service was completed in 1918.
Story of Service
He served in the Rainbow Division.
Charles Wesley Carlton
Submitted by: Bernadine Lennon {Researcher}
Charles Wesley Carlton born around 1882. Charles Carlton served in World War 1 with the YMCA . The enlistment was in 1917 and the service was completed in 1921.
Story of Service
Please see attached files for Charles Wesley Carlton's service during WWI and his photograph. Thank you for this opportunity to increase awareness of the role of NGOs during WWI.
Bernadine Lennon
Oliver Alcide Charpie
Submitted by: Karen Fyock {Charpie was the husband of a distant relative}
Oliver Alcide Charpie born around July 21, 1893. Oliver Charpie served in World War 1 with the U.S. Army Graves Registration Service (GRS). The enlistment was in 1918 and the service was completed in 1919.
Story of Service
These items and letters were found published in the local papers of Clay Center, Kansas when I was researching our family history.
"Thursday morning of last week 49 more Clay county boys went to Camp Funston, to join the draft army. The band assembled at the court house at 10 o'clock, marched down to the Union Pacific depot, playing patriotic pieces, and there played a number of pieces while waiting for the train. A big crowd was also present to see the boys off and bid the God-speed. It was the largest single contingent to ever leave Clay county. Among those who left was Oliver Charpie."
-- The Times - Clay Center, Kansas - July 4, 1918
James Henry Johnson
Submitted by: Catherine Sarver {Granddaughter}
James Henry Johnson born around 1893. James Johnson served in World War 1 with the United States Army . The enlistment was in 1917 and the service was completed in 1917.
Story of Service
My grandfather drove an ambulance to the front lines in France to bring back the injured. He was injured twice. Once when he and his ambulance were hit by shrapnel. He got a back injury from that. He got a back injury and was trained by the government to become a watch maker. Another time mustard gas got under his helmet causing him permanent hair loss.
Even though his name was James Henry Johnson everyone called him Tom! I have no idea if he was called Tom in the military. I also don’t know the enlistment or discharge dates.
Lewis Lawrence Lacey
Submitted by: Laura Lacey Caldwell {Daughter}
Lewis Lawrence Lacey born around 1895. Lewis Lacey served in World War 1 with the United States Army. The enlistment was in 1917 and the service was completed in 1919.
Story of Service
CORPORAL LEWIS L LACEY
Military Biography
Corporal Lewis Lacey served in France during the Great War as a proud member of the 42nd Division of the American Expeditionary Forces. The eldest son of Dr. Lewis and Forney (Beaumont) Lacey, he was born in San Antonio, Texas, on March 27, 1895, and raised in Austin, Texas, where his father established his medical practice on Congress Avenue, a stone’s throw from the Texas state capitol building.
Lewis Lacey, like his three younger brothers, was educated in the Austin public schools and later attended the University of Texas in that city. During his youth, when the stifling heat of summer blanketed Austin, Lewis and his brothers would spend their school vacation camping, swimming, fishing and hunting at nearby Lake Austin. Those early camping experiences undoubtedly helped prepare him for the primitive living conditions in the hastily constructed military training camps both in the United States and in France, where sometimes his only shelter was the pup tent he carried in his backpack.
Stephen Jendraszak
Submitted by: Ches Wajda {Great Nephew}
Stephen Jendraszak was born around 1892. Stephen Jendraszak served in World War 1 with the United States Army. The enlistment was in 1914 and the service was completed in 1918.
Story of Service
Pvt. Stephen Jendraszak (Co. C, Regiment: Machine Gun Battalion, 3rd Brigade) was born on Dec. 14, 1892 in Trzemeszno, Poland. His family immigrated to US in 1901, when he was 9½ years old (the oldest of 4 children). The family eventually came to reside in Chicago, Ill. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1914, at age 21.
He was killed in action on day 2 of The Battle of Soissons in Ploisy, France – as result of an airplane bomb – on Friday, July 19, 1918. He was 25 years old.
The Battle of Soissons (July 18-22, 1918) was a battle fought on the Western Front during World War I. This battle marked the key turning point of the war, as the Germans would be on the defensive for the remainder of the conflict. The war ended 5 months later.
Stephen was a Polish immigrant who loved his adopted country of the United States. He made the ultimate sacrifice in a battle that turned the tide of World War I. I am proud to be his great nephew.