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McKEAN
COUNTY
WORLD WAR I
Casualties
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Corporal
Henry John O’Brien
Company C, 112th Infantry Regiment,
28th Infantry Division
Hometown: Bradford
Died of illness on 24 November 1918
Age: 19
Buried: Plot B, Row 29, Grave
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St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, France
Decorated for bravery and was
attending officer training school in France.
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William
Harold O’Conner
Company B, 4th Squad, Field
Artillery Training Command,
Bucknell College
Hometown: Port Allegany
Died of illness on 17 October 1918
Age: 18
Buried: St. Gabriels Cemetery, Port Allegany
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Corporal
Frederick W. O’Donnell
16th Infantry Regiment, 1st
Infantry Division
Hometown: Bradford
Killed in action on 21 July 1918
Buried: Plot D, Row 2, Grave
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Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Fere-en-Tardenois, France
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Private
Frank Arthur Olson
Company B, 9th Infantry Regiment,
2nd Infantry Division
Hometown: East Kane
Killed in action on 9 November 1918
Age: 25
Buried: Plot F, Row 6, Grave
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Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne, France
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Private
John W. Owens
Machine Gun Company, 112th
Regiment, 28th Infantry Division
Hometown: Bradford
Missing in action on 14 August 1918
He was lying in his dugout
when one of our big guns went off, shaking the ground to cause
the dugout to cave in. He was declared dead from suffocation and
left buried in the dugout somewhere near Chateau Thierry.
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Private
Joseph Brewer Passmore
Company B, 116th Supply Train, 41st Infantry
Division
Hometown: Rew
Died of illness on 13 October 1918 in Langress, France
Age: 29
Buried: Oak Hill Cemetery, Bradford
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Private
First Class Lee E. Pearman, Jr.
Company E, 112th Infantry Regiment,
28th Infantry Division
Hometown: Kane
Killed in action on 30 September 1918
Age: 21
Buried: Plot A, Row 26, Grave
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Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne, France
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Corporal
Milo Pettit
Company L, 18th Battalion,
Camp Lee, VA
Hometown: Bradford
Died of illness on 17 October 1918
Age: 23
Buried: Limestone Cemetery, Limestone, NY
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Private
Howard R. Phillips
Battery D, 321st Field Artillery,
82nd Infantry Division
Hometown: Kane
Died of wounds on 9 October 1918
Buried: Section Euro, Site
3099, Arlington National Cemetery, VA
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Private
Keith William Pratt
Company I, 6th Battalion, 3rd
Secondary Base Unit,
53rd Medical Corps, Camp Upton, NY
Hometown: East Smethport
Died of illness on 15 October 1918
Age: 21
Buried: Rose Hill Cemetery, Smethport
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Private
Nazareno Primerano
Company C, 11th Infantry Regiment,
5th Infantry Division
Hometown: Sergeant Township, near Clermont
Killed in action on 10 November 1918
Age: 23
Buried: Holy Rosary Cemetery,
Johnsonburg, PA
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Lieutenant
Lee Roy Quinn
Carruthers Air Field, Fort
Worth, TX
Hometown: Mt. Alton
Killed in plane crash on 13 January 1919
Age: 29
Buried: Washington, PA
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Corporal
Waldo Andrew Race
Company I, 1st Battalion, 151st
Depot, Camp Devens, MA
Hometown: Bradford
Died of illness on 4 October 1918
Age: 22
Buried: Factory Point Cemetery, Manchester
Center, VT
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Private
Ernest Clifton Reddish
Company C, 112th Infantry Regiment,
28th Infantry Division
Hometown: Sawyer City
Killed in action on 8 August 1918
Age: 20
Buried: Oak Hill Cemetery, Bradford
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Private
Ernest G. Richardson
1st Battalion, Western
Ontario Regiment, Canadian Infantry
Hometown: Betula
Killed in action on 22 September 1916
Age: 22
Buried: Vimy Memorial
Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
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Lieutenant
John C. Roche
Company C, 112th Infantry Regiment,
28th Infantry Division
Hometown: Bradford
Killed in action on 14 October 1918
Age: 28
Buried: St. Bernards Cemetery, Bradford
He became a Sergeant while
serving on the Mexican Border and was citied for bravery in France.
He was sent to officer training school where he earned his commission.
He was killed at Fismette, France. Bradford Veteran's of Foreign
Wars Post 212 is named in his honor.
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Private
Forney Sam Rupert
Quartermaster Corps
Hometown: Bradford
Died of illness on 9 July 1918 in France
Age: 32
Buried: Oak Hill Cemetery, Bradford
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Private
Stephen Rudolph Sankner
Machine Gun Company, 112th
Regiment, 28th Infantry Division
Hometown: Lewis Run
Died of wounds on 7 September 1918
Age: 25
Buried: Plot B, Row 15, Grave
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Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Fere-en-Tardenois, France
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Private
Clarence L. Schorman
Company I, 317th Infantry Regiment,
80th Infantry Division
Hometown: Bradford
Died of wounds on 13 November 1918
Age: 23
Buried: Oak Hill Cemetery, Bradford
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Edward
Charles Schwertfager
Company E, 112th Infantry Regiment,
28th Infantry Division
Hometown: Kane
Killed in action in October 1918, France
Age: 24
Burial unknown
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Private
First Class James Rexford Scowden
108th Infantry Regiment, 27th
Infantry Division
Hometown: Colegrove
Killed in action on 29 September 1918
Age: 22
Buried: Plot B, Row 24, Grave
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Somme American Cemetery, Bony, France
He had served in Mexico and
was killed at the same time Sergeant Hans A. Benson of Colegrove
received wounds that cost him his right arm. Benson was in the
same shell hole with Scowden’s body for the whole day’s fighting.
Benson died in 1921 and is buried in Olean, NY.
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Private
First Class Bert E. Seamens
Machine Gun Company, 112th
Regiment, 28th Infantry Division
Hometown: Bradford
Killed in action on 1 October 1918
Buried: Plot E, Row 14, Grave
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Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne, France
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Private
Fred L. Seward
Coast Artillery Corps
Hometown: Bradford
Drowned at sea on 16 October 1918, Age: 40
Buried:
Oak Hill Cemetery, Bradford
On 16 October
1918, during a heavy storm while carrying troops from America
to Glasgow and Liverpool, HMS Otranto collided with the P&O
liner HMS Kashmir also carring American troops. The Otranto
broke in two and sunk in Machir Bay off the North coast of Islay,
Scotland.
The loss
of life was heavy - 351 American soldiers drowned.
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Corporal
Warren Daniel Shaw
Company C, 112th Infantry Regiment,
28th Infantry Division
Hometown: Bradford
Died of wounds on 22 August 1918
Age: 19
Buried: Oak Hill Cemetery, Bradford
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Private
William Wesley Sincerny
Machine Gun Company, 112th
Regiment, 28th Infantry Division
Hometown: Bradford
Killed in action on 6 September 1918
Age: 19
Buried: Oak Hill Cemetery, Bradford
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First
Sergeant Forest Franklin Smail
Company E, 414th Telegraph
Battalion
Hometown: Kane
Died of illness on 5 October 1918 in France
Age: 24
Buried: Forest Lawn Cemetery, Kane
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Private
Thomas F. Smith
HQ Company, 314th Infantry, 79th Division
Hometown: Port Allegany
Died in Service: October 6, 1918
Buried: Lyman Cemetery, Roulette, PA
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Private
Floyd Archibald Stephens
Camp Lewis, Tacoma, WA
Hometown: Bradford
Died of illness on 8 May 1918
Age: 23
Burial unknown
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Private
Norman David Stuchell
Company C, 112th Infantry Regiment,
28th Infantry Division
Hometown: Sawyer City
Killed in action on 26 July 1918
Age: 26
Buried: Oak Hill Cemetery, Bradford
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Private
Otto H. Swanson
Company C, Training School,
Camp Lee, VA
Hometown: Kane
Died of illness on 16 October 1918
Age: 30
Buried: Forest Lawn Cemetery, Kane
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Private
Collins Daniel Thomas
Company E, 112th Infantry Regiment,
28th Infantry Division
Hometown: Smethport (also Kane)
Killed in action on 25 July 1918
Age: 21
Buried: Grimes Cemetery, Port
Allegany
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First
Sergeant Winfield S. Tucker
5th Troop, Cavalry Recruitment
Camp, Fort Bliss, TX
Hometown: Hazel Hurst
Died of illness on 10 October 1918
Age: 19
Buried: Bridgeview Cemetery, Mt. Jewett
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Corporal
James Lester Uber
Company E, 112th Infantry Regiment,
28th Infantry Division
Hometown: Ludlow
Missing in action on 8 October 1918
Age: 29
Tablets of the Missing
Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery. Romagne, France
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Curtis
Vaughn
Hometown: Bradford
Died in the service
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Private
Edgar C. Wainright
Company E, 112th Infantry Regiment,
28th Infantry Division
Hometown: Kane
Killed in action on 9 August 1918
Age: 23
Buried: Plot C, Row 22, Grave
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Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Fere-en-Tardenois, France
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Private
James J. Weaver
61st Infantry Regiment, 5th
Infantry Division
Hometown: Kane
Killed in action on 26 October 1918
Buried: Plot H, Row 31, Grave
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Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne, France
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Fireman
Second Class Elwood L. Wicks
USS Von Steuben
Hometown: Port Allegany
Died of illness on 22 May 1918 at Brooklyn Naval Hospital
Age: 24
Buried: Fairview Cemetery, Port Allegany
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