War Camp Service Sends 36th Division Burial Index to State Leaders
Paul Goss of the War Camp Community Service Fort Worth encloses letters to the bereaved families of the 36th Division and Chaplain Cleveland. The package includes a complete card index of dead soldiers with burial locations, to be kept by Texas or Oklahoma authorities and open to the public.
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Austin
Tex
Paul Goss
War Camp Community Service
Girls’ Division
Fort Worth
Hobby
Texas Executive
Goss
Cleveland
New Jersey
Texas
Oklahoma
American Railway Express
36Th Division
Edmund J. Cleve
West Seventh Street
T. Worth
Edmund J. Cleveland
France
Park Avenue
Plainfield
N. J
Champagne
Central Cemetery
Central Records Office
Graves Reistration Service
United States
Congress
Fr. Worth
Govenor
Two Hundred Days of Battle: U S War Fatalities and Draft Data
The report tallies World War I casualties for all belligerents at 7,450,200 with U S figures detailing 4,800,000 total armed, 2,086,000 overseas, 124,422 army deaths, and 200 days of Meuse Argonne fighting. It notes 24,234,021 registered for the draft and 2,310,296 inductions, plus $21.35 billion in war costs through April 1919.
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General Staff
Russia
Italy
Serbia
Montenegro
Portugal
Navy
Marine Corps
America
France
Meuse Argonne
Army
Amerdean
Colors of Texans Given to Their State
Austin, Texas June 26 Captain J L Thompson of the 14 Red Infantry 36th Division presented the regimental colors to Adjutant General J A Harley. The colors were decor ated by General Pershing in recognition of valiant services performed in the Argonne.
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Austin
Tex
J. L. Thompson
J. A. Harley
Pershing
Argonne
Margonne offensive casualties report details
Washington June 26 reports 12000 injured or dead among 1,200,000 men engaged in the Margonne offensive, a 10 percent loss. Col Leonard Ayres, chief of the War Department statistical branch, says two of every 100 Americans killed or dying of disease in WWI. The Civil War Northern army saw similar rates.
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Washington, D. C
Leonard P. Ayres
General Staff
War Department
Germany
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