Honor Roll, The Argonne Dead

Argonne Offensive 

 
 
 

Photograph

 

Alfred Abegg

   

Private Company B

#100215

 


       Wounded on October 11, 1918, and died in hospital.  Son of Mrs. Mattie Abegg, Des Moines, Iowa.  Private Abegg was wounded by bursting shrapnel on the road near Montfaucon and died later in the hospital.  As a runner for the First Platoon, Private Abegg carried messages thru several barrages and kept up liason under heavy fire. He served with the regiment in Lorraine, Champagne, Chateau Thierry and St. Mihiel.

   
   

C. R. Johnson

   

Private Company B

#246981

 


       Killed in the Argonne Forest near Montfaucon.  Buried October 12, 1918, in Grave No. 2-D, Map of Montfaucon.  Private Johnson was killed by shrapnel on the road near Montfaucon.  He served with the regiment in all their previous campaigns. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Johnson, Waterford, Pennsylvania.

Photograph

 
 
   

Page 331

     

 

~reference: "THE PRICE OF OUR HERITAGE", W. E. Robb,  1919 American Lithography and Printing Company, Des Moines, Iowa. Page 331.

~ scanned and submitted by Cay Merryman