Honor Roll, The Argonne Dead

Argonne Offensive 

 
 
 

Photograph

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Govan A. Quinn

   

Private Company F

#1488100


    
           Killed October 17, 1918, at Argonne.  Private Quinn was a Texan National Guard. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Quinn, Salado, Texas.  He was a good dress parade soldier and just as good in the lines.  A quiet southerner of the old school.  Quinn was an automatic rifleman and very efficient.  The platoon was advancing against heavy machine gun fire and Quinn was firing an automatic rifle, when a machine gun bullet hit him between the eyes and killed him instantly.

   
   

Wayland S. Gardner

   

Private Company E

#2990633

 


      Died October 17, 1918 in Field Hospital No. 165.  Son of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Gardner, Angier, N.C.  Private Gardner joined the company in August and saw action at St. Mihiel and the Argonne.  He was a good soldier and a willing worker.

Photograph

Unobtainable

 
 
   

Page 375

     

 

~reference: "THE PRICE OF OUR HERITAGE", W. E. Robb,  1919 American Lithography and Printing Company, Des Moines, Iowa. Page 375.

~ scanned and submitted by Cay Merryman