Honor Roll, The Argonne Dead

Argonne Offensive 

 
 
 

Louis Dilla

   

Privaye Company C

#1487823

 


        Killed at Argonne Forest, October 16, 1918.  Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Dilla, San Antonio, Texas.  Private Dilla was killed instantly by a machine gun bullet as he was advancing between Hill 242 and Hill 288.  He had served with the regiment at St. Mihiel.

   
   

Henry T. Gillespie

   

Second Lieutenant Company H

 


       Killed October 16, 1918, during the Argonne operations.  Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Gillespie, Maysville, Georgia.  Buried in Grave 2-28, May of Kriemhilde Stellung.  Lieutenant Gillespie was killed while leading his platoon against Hill 288.  He had only been with the regiment a short while but was well liked by the men.

Photograph

unobtainable

 
 
   

Page 366

     

 

~reference: "THE PRICE OF OUR HERITAGE", W. E. Robb,  1919 American Lithography and Printing Company, Des Moines, Iowa. Page 366.

~ scanned and submitted by Cay Merryman