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                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 
                6St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, France
 Decorated for bravery and was 
                attending officer training school in France.  |  
           
            |  | 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 
                28Oise-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 
                25Meuse-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.  |  
           
            |  | 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 
                33Meuse-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 |  
           
            |  | 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 |  
           
            |  | 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 
                26Oise-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 |  
           
            |  | 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 
                6Somme 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. |  
           
            |  | 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 
                34Meuse-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 |  
           
            |  | 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 
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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 MissingMeuse-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 
                14Oise-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 
                40Meuse-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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