Honor Roll of Boys who Died Going Over 

 
 

Harry E. Chambers

   

Corporal, Company I

#102398

 

 

      Captured by the Germans, after being severely wounded on June 16th. He died at Cirey the following day. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Chambers, Park Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa. Harry Chambers was one of nineteen volunteers who went out on a daylight patrol in No Man's Land to attempt to recover the body of one of their comrades who had been killed a few minutes before in a fight with an enemy patrol.

 
 
   
   

Michael Houchin

   

Private, Company I

 

  

     Missing June 16, 1918. Son of Mrs. Mary Strode, Burlington, Iowa.     Private Houchin was a member of the patrol, which went out into No Man's Land to recover the body of a comrade, and as yet, we have; no official report as to his death or burial. Several of the men were caught in a trap, but received no definite word of Private Houchin.

 
 
   

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