Fallen Hometown Heroes -  Montgomery County, MD

We solemnly remember and pay tribute to the County’s fallen service members who have died in service to our country since World War I. 

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The records show these men and women as enlisting, being originally from, or having at one time lived in Montgomery County, MD. We consider the U.S. Department of Defense home of entry records as the official designation of military residency.

World War I (PDF)    (July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918)

 

John Carver Adams

Army CPT John Carver Adams

Army CPT John Carver Adams, 22, of Gaithersburg, Maryland. He was assigned to Company K, 30th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Division. Adams was killed in action in the Second Battle of the Marne in Chateau-Thierry, France. Gave his life on July 25, 1918.

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Army PVT William Elmer Atwood

Army PVT William Elmer Atwood, 24, of Rockville, Maryland. He was assigned to 71st Infantry Division at Camp Meade, Maryland. Atwood died in the line of duty from disease. Gave his life on October 12, 1918.

Francis Fillmore Barber

Army PVT Francis Fillmore Barber

Army PVT Francis Fillmore Barber, 19, of Laytonsville, Maryland. He was assigned to Company D, 102nd Infantry Regiment, 26th Infantry Division. Barber died of wounds received in action in France. Gave his life on July 29, 1918.

Junius Ignatius Boyle

Army 2LT Junius Ignatius Boyle

Army 2LT Junius Ignatius Boyle, 40, of Gaithersburg, Maryland. He was assigned to the 37th Division, 147th Infantry Regiment. Boyle was killed in action in Thiaucourt, Lorraine, France, after a series of daring exploits in raiding the enemy's lines. Gave his life on October 11, 1918.

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Army PVT Walter Montgomery Briggs

Army PVT Walter Montgomery Briggs, 27, of Gaithersburg, Maryland. He was assigned to 313 Ambulance Company, 304th Sanitary Training. Briggs died of wounds received in action in Argonne, France. Gave his life on October 4, 1918.



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Marine Corps LCpl William Irvin Brooke

Marine Corps LCpl William Irvin Brooke, 33, of Rockville, Maryland. He was assigned to Company E, 59th Field Artillery. Brooke died in the line of duty from appendicitis at Camp Logan, Houston, TX. Gave his life on September 10, 1918.

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Army Mechanic Albert O. Burgdorf

Army Mechanic Albert O. Burgdorf, 31, of Bethesda, Maryland. He was assigned to Company C, 3rd D.C. Infantry Regiment. Burgdorf died in the line of duty from a non-combat related accident. Gave his life on August 26, 1917.

Edwin Haines Chinn

Army PVT Edwin Haines Chinn

Army PVT Edwin Haines Chinn, 23, of Brookeville, Maryland. He was assigned to Company B, 307 Ammunition Train at Ft. McPherson, GA. Chinn died in the line of duty from pneumonia. Gave his life on December 30, 1917. Chinn was the first soldier from Montgomery County, Maryland to give his life in WWI.

Edward Carroll Cissel

Army CPT Edward Carroll Cissel

Army CPT Edward Carroll Cissel, 22, of Wheaton, Maryland. He was assigned to Company E, 17th Infantry Regiment. Cissel died in the line of duty from pneumonia at Camp Meade, MD. Gave his life on October 7, 1918.

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Army PVT William Julius Compher

Army PVT William Julius Compher, 31, of Poolesville, Maryland. He was assigned to Company C, 312th Machine Gun Battalion, 79th Division. Compher died from wounds received in action in Lorraine, France. Gave his life on September 28, 1918.

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Army PVT William Julius Compher

Army PVT William Julius Compher, 31, of Poolesville, Maryland. He was assigned to Company C, 312th Machine Gun Battalion, 79th Division. Compher died from wounds received in action in Lorraine, France. Gave his life on September 28, 1918.



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Army PVT Andrew Jackson Dailey Jr.

Army PVT Andrew Jackson Dailey Jr., 29, of Brookeville, Maryland. He was assigned to 2nd Engineer Training Regiment Camp. Dailey died in the line of duty from pneumonia at Camp Humphreys, Virginia. Gave his life on October 8, 1918.

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Army CPT Hugh Mackay Davis

Army CPT Hugh Mackay Davis, 26, of Takoma Park, Maryland. He was assigned to Company E, 3rd Infantry Regiment. Davis died in the line of duty from disease at Fort Sam, Houston, Texas. Gave his life on April 5, 1918. Graduated from Cornell University in 1915.

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Army PVT Aaron Dyson

Army PVT Aaron Dyson, 26, of Gaithersburg, Maryland. Gave his life on November 22, 1918.

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Naval Reserve Force SA Robert Lindsay Edmonds

Naval Reserve Force SA Robert Lindsay Edmonds, 20, of Rockville, Maryland. Edmonds died in the line of duty from pneumonia at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Hampton Roads, Virginia. Gave his life on November 9, 1918.

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Navy LDS Ernest William Emery, Jr.

Navy LDS Ernest William Emery, Jr., 21, of Takoma Park, Maryland. He was assigned to training in naval radio work. Emery died in the line of duty from pneumonia at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Hampton Roads, Virginia. Gave his life on September 30, 1918.



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Army PVT Abraham Lincoln Foster

Army PVT Abraham Lincoln Foster, 24, of Germantown, Maryland. He was assigned to Supply Company, 351st Field Artillery, 92nd Division. Foster died in the line of duty from pneumonia at Camp Meade, Maryland. Gave his life on April 7, 1918.

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Army PVT Adolphus Major Graham

Army PVT Adolphus Major Graham, 30, of Poolesville, Maryland. He was assigned to Company D, 343 Labor Battalion. Graham died in the line of duty from pneumonia in Newport News, Virginia. Gave his life on October 21, 1918.

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Army PVT Basil Richard Graham

Army PVT Basil Richard Graham, 22, of Poolesville, Maryland. He was assigned to Headquarters Stevedore & Laboratory Organization. Graham died in the line of duty from pneumonia in Newport News, Virginia. Gave his life on October 11, 1918.

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Army PVT Lee William Heffner

Army PVT Lee William Heffner, 20, of Bethesda, Maryland. He was assigned to Company B, 1st Field Battalion Signal Corps. Heffner died in the line of duty from pneumonia at Fort Bliss, Texas. Gave his life on May 22, 1917.

Frederick Neel Henderson

Army 1LT Dr. Frederick Neel Henderson

Army 1LT Dr. Frederick Neel Henderson, 37, of Rockville, Maryland. He was assigned to Medical Officer Training Camp. Henderson died in the line of duty from meningitis at Camp Oglethorpe, Georgia. Gave his life on April 7, 1918. He attended Rockville Academy, George Washington University, and graduated from University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1903. Henderson was the former President and at the time of his death Secretary and Treasurer of the Montgomery County Medical Society.

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Army PVT Charles H. Hood

Army PVT Charles H. Hood, 31, of Norbeck, Maryland. He was assigned to Company G, 372nd Infantry, 93rd Division. Hood died of wounds received in action in France. Gave his life on June 11, 1918.

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Paul Latene Hull

Army PVT Paul Latene Hull

Army PVT Paul Latene Hull, 21, of Silver Spring, Maryland. He was assigned to Company K, 115th Infantry, 29th Division. Hull died from wounds received in action in Alsace, France. Gave his life on August 3, 1918.

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Army PVT George B. Johnson

Army PVT George B. Johnson, 24, of Silver Spring, Maryland. He was assigned to Company 50, 13th Battalion, 153rd Depot Brigade. Johnson died in the line of duty from pneumonia at Camp Dixon, New Jersey. Gave his life on September 29, 1918.

Henry Keefer Lenhart

Army PVT Henry Keefer Lenhart

Army PVT Henry Keefer Lenhart, 31, of Germantown, Maryland. He was assigned to Company B, 310th Machine Gun Battalion, 79th Division. Lenhart died in the line of duty from pneumonia in France. Gave his life on February 9, 1919.

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Army PFC John Howerton “Howdy” Lindsay

Army PFC John Howerton “Howdy” Lindsay, 22, of Colesville, Maryland. He was assigned to Company K, 115th Infantry Regiment, 29th Division. Lindsay was killed in action in France. Gave his life on October 8, 1918.

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Army PVT Charles Frederick Linthicum

Army PVT Charles Frederick Linthicum, 30, of Gaithersburg, Maryland. He was assigned to Company G, 71st Infantry. Linthicum died in the line of duty from pneumonia. Gave his life on September 27, 1918.



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Army PVT William Thomas Lusby

Army PVT William Thomas Lusby, 27, of Chevy Chase, Maryland. He was assigned to Company A, 327th Battalion Light Tanks. Lusby died from wounds after being injured during an accident with a machine gun at Camp Colt, PA. Gave his life on July 16, 1918.

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Army PVT John W. Nicholson

Army PVT John W. Nicholson, 21, of Barnesville, Maryland. He was assigned to Company I, 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. Nicholson was killed in action in Aisne-Marne, FranceGave his life on July 19, 1918.

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Marine Corps Cpl Benjamin Perry, Jr.

Marine Corps Cpl Benjamin Perry, Jr., 22, of Bethesda, Maryland. He was assigned to 81st Company, 6 Machine Gun Battalion, 4th Marine Brigade. Perry died from wounds received in action near Chateau-Thierry, France during the Battle of Belleau Wood. Gave his life on June 13, 1918.

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Army PVT Clifford Harrison Poole

Army PVT Clifford Harrison Poole, 29, of Silver Spring, Maryland. He was assigned to 401st Residence Laboratory Battalion. Poole died in the line of duty from pneumonia at Camp Eustis, Virginia. Gave his life on October 9, 1918.

Norman Boyer Price

Army PVT Norman Boyer Price

Army PVT Norman Boyer Price, 29, of Olney, Maryland. He was assigned to Sixth Trench Mortar Battery. Price died in the line of duty from pneumonia. Gave his life on October 12, 1918.



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Davis Neeper Richards

Army 1LT Davis Neeper Richards

Army 1LT Davis Neeper Richards, 28, of Germantown, Maryland. He was assigned to the Medical Corps, Evacuation Hospital #49. Richards died in the line of duty from pneumonia at Camp Merritt, New Jersey. Gave his life on October 12, 1918. Graduated from Johns Hopkins University.

John Williams Saxon

Army SGT John Williams Saxon

Army SGT John Williams Saxon, 20, of Kensington, Maryland. He was assigned to the 1st Platoon, Company K, 115th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division. Saxon was killed in action during the Battle of the Argonne near Verdun, France. Gave his life on October 10, 1918.

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Army PVT Leroy Small

Army PVT Leroy Small, 31, of Chevy Chase, Maryland. He was assigned to Company K, 115th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division. Small died from wounds received in action in France. Gave his life on October 11, 1918.

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Army PVT Theron Eaton Smith

Army PVT Theron Eaton Smith, 28, of Rockville, Maryland. He was assigned to Medical Corps, 304th Sanitary Training, 79th Division. Smith died in the line of duty from pneumonia in France. Gave his life on September 25, 1918.

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Army PVT William G. Toone

Army PVT William G. Toone, 24, of Glen Echo, Maryland. He was assigned to the 316th Ambulance Company, 304th Sanitary Training, 79th Division. Toone was killed in action during the shelling of Field Hospital near Montfaucon, France. Gave his life on September 30, 1918.

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John Douglas Wade

Army CPT John Douglass Wade
Army CPT John Douglass Wade, 38, of Gaithersburg, Maryland. He was assigned to the Company K, 115th Infantry Regiment, 29th Division. Wade was killed in action in France. Gave his life on October 9, 1918.

William Clopper Wade

Army PVT William Clopper Wade

Army PVT William Clopper Wade, 26, of Gaithersburg, Maryland. He was assigned to Company L, 125th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Division. Wade was killed in action in France. Gave his life on July 31, 1918.

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Army PFC John Walters

Army PFC John Walters of Germantown, Maryland. He was assigned to Company K, 115th Infantry. Walters died from wounds received in action near Verdun, France. After being shot twice in the abdomen, he captured a machine gun by killing three of the enemy. Gave his life on October 10, 1918.

Charles Foster Wedderburn

Navy LTJG Charles Foster Wedderburn

Navy LTJG Charles Foster Wedderburn, 25, of Chevy Chase, Maryland. He was assigned to the USS Chauncey. Wedderburn died on board the the ship when it collided with the British merchantship the SS Rose. Gave his life on November 19, 1917. His body was lost at sea.

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Army CPL George Arnold Wilburn

Army CPL George Arnold Wilburn, 23, of Wheaton, Maryland. He was assigned to Company K, 115th Infantry Regiment, 29th Division. Wilburn was killed in action in France. Gave his life on October 12, 1918.



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Frank Lee Windsor

Army CPL Frank Lee Windsor

Army CPL Frank Lee Windsor, 23, of Potomac, Maryland. He was assigned to Company I, 23rd Infantry Regiment. Windsor was killed after the hospital he was sent to for treatment of wounds was attacked in Chateau-Thierry Sector, France. Gave his life on July 1, 1918.

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Army PVT Allaire Emery Woodson

Army PVT Allaire Emery Woodson, 30, of Silver Spring, Maryland. He was assigned to Company B, 304 Supply Training, 79th Division. Woodson died in the line of duty from pneumonia in France. Gave his life on October 7, 1918.

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Army PVT Robert J. Worthington

Army PVT Robert J. Worthington, 32, of Garrett Park, Maryland. He was assigned to Company E, 3rd D.C. Infantry. Worthington died after accidentally shooting himself while loading his gun. Gave his life on September 9, 1917.



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Compiled by the Montgomery County Commission on Veterans Affairs.
Sources: National Archives, Find A Grave, Together We Served, Ancestry.com, Newspapers.com, Fold3.com
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