Ringgold County IAGenWeb Project

World War I is also referred to as "The First World War," "The Great War," or the "War to End All Wars." It was a global military conflict involving the majority of all of the world's great powers which formed two opposing military alliances: the Entente Powers against the Central Powers. Over 70 million military personnel were mobilized into perhaps the largest war in history. Over 15 million people lost their lives, making World War I one of the most deadliest conflicts known to mankind.

The catalyst for World War I occurred on June 28, 1914 with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophia by Bosnian-Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip. Austria-Hungary's demands after the assassination upon the Kingdom of Serbia led to a series of alliances which put all of the major European powers at war within a matter of weeks. An armistice was signed on September 29, 1918 at Saloniki, however many date the official end of World War I as the signing of the Versailles Treaty in 1919. By the end of the war, four major imperial powers had been militarily and politically defeated - Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire with the latter two ceasing to exist. The League of Nations was formed with renewed hope of preventing any other similiar conflict. The United States lost 116,708 soldiers with 205,690 wounded in World War I.

NAME	RANK/GRADE	BRANCH	HOMETOWN	DATE of BIRTH	DATE of CASUALTY
DEWEY Peter Edward			Shannon City	06 Jan 1894 Knowlton IA
DYER Ralph			Mount Ayr	03 Feb 1896 Mount Ayr	09 May 1918 Inter: Oakdale Cemetery, Ringgold Co. IA
ELICK Lewis John	PVT	Co. E 359th Inf	Benton	16 Aug 1893 Guernsey IA	07 Oct 1918 Inter: Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Fere-en-Tardenois France
GREENROD Homer H.	PVT	Co. 42 163rd Army	Mount Ayr	13 Jun 1896 Mount Ayr	20 Oct 1918 Camp Sheridan Montgomery AL Inter: Sweet Home Cemetery, Ringgold Co. IA
HALL Fredrederick McCandrie "Fred"			Benton IA	10 Apr 1887 Benton
HERRINGTON Carl A. Redding American Legion Post named in his honor	PVT	117th Infantry Regiment, 30th Div.	Redding	23 Jul 1893 Grant City MO	08 Oct 1918 Inter: Somme American Cemetery, Picardie, France
LESAN Clinton F.	PVT.	U.S. Army	Kellerton	10 Jun 1892 Kellerton	12 Oct 1918 LeBas, Alsace, France Inter: Sweet Home Cemetery, Ringgold Co. IA
LILES George Emmett		Co. D 117th Inf	Ellston	21 Dec 1895 Ellston	29 Sep 1918 Bellecourte, France Inter: Pumptown Cemetery, Ringgold Co. IA
MALANEY Earl Elbert	Seaman 2nd Class	U.S.Navy enlisted 07 May 1917 Des Moines	Redding IA	18 Feb 1896	16 Jan 1918 of scarlett fever USS Solace Hospital ship Inter: Redding Cemetery
McANINCH Howard	PVT 1CL	U.S. Army	Ringgold Co. IA		28 Sep 1918 Interment Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery Romagne, France
McCREARY George Allen		54th Ambulance Corps	Knowlton	02 Aug 1896 Atlantic IA	1918 Interment Centenary Cemetery Ringgold Co. IA
MORRIS Victor Baker		Co. A 334 M G S N N A	Diagonal	21 Feb 1893 Paola KS	1918 Interment Diagonal Cemetery
PHILLIPPE George Washington			Kellerton	26 Jan 1892 Redding IA
WHITE Clarence "Warden"	Fireman 2CL	USNRF enlisted 23 May 1918 Des Moines IA	Diagonal	06 Aug	07 Nov 1918 respiratory disease Naval Hospital Norfolk VA Interment Diagonal Cemetery
WOODS Clyde Russell		Co. D DEV BN NO. 1	Knowlton	10 Nov 1894 Diagonal	1918 Interment Diagonal Cemetery

SOURCES:
U.S. National Archives &Records Administration
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I

WORLD WAR I CASUALTIES