Sergeant (Acting Second Lieutenant), Company B, 105th Engineers, 30th Division, A.E.F.
After graduating from the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (now NC State University) with a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering in 1911, he was employed by the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railway in their construction department. He enlisted in Company B of the 1st Separate Battalion, North Carolina Engineers, on August 2, 1917; the unit was later attached to the 30th Division.
His commission as a 2nd Lieutenant was dated October 14, 1918, but notification had not yet reached him when he was mortally wounded by shell fire while building a bridge over the River Selle at St. Souplet, Department of the Nord, France on October 17. He died in hospital a week later and was originally buried with other American casualties in the British Military Cemetery in Étaples.
In 1922 his remains were reinterred at Arlington National Cemetery (though the date of death on his gravestone at Arlington is October 29, 1918, it is listed as October 25 in 30th Division records.)
After graduating from the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (now NC State University) with a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering in 1911, he was employed by the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railway in their construction department. He enlisted in Company B of the 1st Separate Battalion, North Carolina Engineers, on August 2, 1917; the unit was later attached to the 30th Division.
His commission as a 2nd Lieutenant was dated October 14, 1918, but notification had not yet reached him when he was mortally wounded by shell fire while building a bridge over the River Selle at St. Souplet, Department of the Nord, France on October 17. He died in hospital a week later and was originally buried with other American casualties in the British Military Cemetery in Étaples.
In 1922 his remains were reinterred at Arlington National Cemetery (though the date of death on his gravestone at Arlington is October 29, 1918, it is listed as October 25 in 30th Division records.)
Sergeant (Acting Second Lieutenant), Company B, 105th Engineers, 30th Division, A.E.F.
After graduating from the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (now NC State University) with a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering in 1911, he was employed by the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railway in their construction department. He enlisted in Company B of the 1st Separate Battalion, North Carolina Engineers, on August 2, 1917; the unit was later attached to the 30th Division.
His commission as a 2nd Lieutenant was dated October 14, 1918, but notification had not yet reached him when he was mortally wounded by shell fire while building a bridge over the River Selle at St. Souplet, Department of the Nord, France on October 17. He died in hospital a week later and was originally buried with other American casualties in the British Military Cemetery in Étaples.
In 1922 his remains were reinterred at Arlington National Cemetery (though the date of death on his gravestone at Arlington is October 29, 1918, it is listed as October 25 in 30th Division records.)
After graduating from the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (now NC State University) with a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering in 1911, he was employed by the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railway in their construction department. He enlisted in Company B of the 1st Separate Battalion, North Carolina Engineers, on August 2, 1917; the unit was later attached to the 30th Division.
His commission as a 2nd Lieutenant was dated October 14, 1918, but notification had not yet reached him when he was mortally wounded by shell fire while building a bridge over the River Selle at St. Souplet, Department of the Nord, France on October 17. He died in hospital a week later and was originally buried with other American casualties in the British Military Cemetery in Étaples.
In 1922 his remains were reinterred at Arlington National Cemetery (though the date of death on his gravestone at Arlington is October 29, 1918, it is listed as October 25 in 30th Division records.)
