Honor Roll, The Argonne Dead

Argonne Offensive 

 
 
 

Harold W. Benge

   

Private Company A

 


        Private Benge was wounded on October 14, 1918, and died from wounds on October 27th.  He was hit by a shell while going over the top in a support wave. Born May 20, 1901.  Son of Mrs. Bertha Benge, Des Moines, Iowa.

   
   

John B. Pittman

   

Private Company D

#3210204

 


        Killed October 14, 1918, at the Argonne near Hill 288.  Private Pittman was killed by a high explosive shell on the morning of the first advance in the Argonne.  He had served with the regiment in the St. Mihiel Drive.  Son of Mr. and Mrs. D. Pittman, Brockton, Alabama.

Photograph

Unobtainable

 
 
   

Page 333

     

 

~reference: "THE PRICE OF OUR HERITAGE", W. E. Robb,  1919 American Lithography and Printing Company, Des Moines, Iowa. Page 333.

~ scanned and submitted by Cay Merryman