Posts Tagged ‘world war i’
Brannigan and Learmouth Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged dublin, ireland, soldier, st. patrick's cathedral, wordless wednesday, world war i on November 2, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Ernest McClintock
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged kirtland, kirtland historic north cemetery, ohio, soldier, world war i on October 6, 2016| Leave a Comment »
I tried to find out more information about PFC McClintock, but almost everything you can find online for the 83rd Division is about their World War II service. The one consistent piece of information I discovered was that most of the soldiers were from Ohio. Perhaps in a few years when more resources go online, I’ll be able to learn more about this soldier.
A Monument of Paper
Posted in Somewhere other than a cemetery, tagged birthplace, cause of death, dublin, history, ireland, place of death, trinity college dublin, world war i, wwi on April 30, 2013| Leave a Comment »
The second item in Trinity College’s Long Room that I thought deserved a place on this blog is certainly a different kind of memorial than I usually encounter. A copy of one volume of Ireland’s Memorial Records 1914-1918 was on display. This book lists over 49,000 Irishmen who died in World War I: name, birthplace, rank, unit, cause of death, and place of death.
Lewis Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cause of death, cleveland, lake view cemetery, occupation, ohio, soldier, tombstone tales, veteran, wordless wednesday, world war i, wwi on February 20, 2013| 1 Comment »
Presented by his comrades of the First Pursuit Group
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cause of death, cleveland, lake view cemetery, occupation, ohio, pilot, us history, world war i, wwi on February 17, 2013| 1 Comment »
Captain Burt E. Skeel died while representing the Army Air Service in the International Air Race at Wilbur Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio. He crashed in front of spectators when the wings came off his plane. A native of East Cleveland, Ohio, Skeel had served in World War I, starting in the infantry and then transferring to the Air Service, where he remained as a pilot after the war.
Maurer Maurer.
Aviation in the U.S. Army, 1919-1939.
Peter Vischer, “When Men Race with Death to Make the Air Safe.” Popular Science. January 1925.
Rose Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged epitaphs, ohio, soldier, veteran, willoughby, willoughby village cemetery, world war i, wwi on January 15, 2012| Leave a Comment »
A Grave Concern: Miller Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cause of death, fostoria, fountain cemetery, history, occupation, ohio, soldier, tombstone tales, veteran, wordless wednesday, world war i, wwi on August 3, 2011| Leave a Comment »
A Grave Concern: Millage Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged epitaphs, gettysburg, gettysburg national cemetery, history, national cemetery, occupation, pennsylvania, soldier, tombstone tales, veteran, world war i, wwi on June 8, 2011| Leave a Comment »
A Grave Concern: The Dental Corps?
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged dental corps, dentist, gettysburg, gettysburg national cemetery, history, national cemetery, occupation, pennsylvania, soldier, tombstone tales, veteran, world war i, wwi on May 24, 2011| Leave a Comment »
In today’s edition of things I never knew, we have the Dental Corps. Both the Army and Navy had a Dental Corps by World War I, formally established by an Act of Congress in 1911 and 1912, respectively. This was not done out of altruism, but as a response to the need for a system of dental care for soldiers that had plagued the military since the Revolutionary War.
A Grave Concern: The first to die
Posted in Morbid Musings, tagged cause of death, gettysburg, gettysburg national cemetery, history, names, national cemetery, pennsylvania, soldier, tombstone tales, veteran, world war i, wwi on May 22, 2011| 2 Comments »
Lentz
Albert J.
Pvt Hdq Co 13th Infantry Div
Born in Gettysburg Oct. 17th, 1895
Killed in action at Catigny, France
April 27, 1918
The first Gettysburg boy to make the supreme sacrifice in the World War*
What is it about being the first to die that grants one recognition? I’ve looked at this before, with David Eldridge (who has the distinction of being the first European to die in the Western Reserve). It’s certainly not an honor very many people would vie for. Albert Lentz, from what I can tell, had done nothing particularly noteworthy before his departure for service in Europe. I’m not saying he wasn’t a perfectly nice young man, loved by friends and family, because I don’t know – he seems to have been living an average unrecorded life. Suddenly, he has the misfortune to be the first Gettysburg fatality in the Great War, and he’s a household name – really, he gave his name to the American Legion post in Gettysburg. But what is it about being first? For a far-off war, is it the first body that is not just a body, but the shell of a person who we used to know? For a new place, is it the knowledge that even if we move from this spot, some small part of us will also remain here with the first person we have broken ground to bury?
*Any errors in transcription are my own. I tried to confirm my transcription with online sources, but others disagreed on items I am confident I can read clearly.
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