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CASUALTY LIST NOW 20.112.Names of North CaroliniansSince Last Report.Casualties in the army and marine corps overseas, made public Sunday, aggregated 422, bringing, tlic total ¥or the week to 4,910 and the Jotal singe American troops landed in Fra nee to 20,112. Most of the casualties for the week represented losses in the fighting on the Marno-Aisne front.Of the total easyaltios announcrd. 24f are soldiers and 87 marines, while of week’s total,^ which included Sunday’s lists, 4,198 were soldiers and 718 marines. The week’s aggregate of 4,910 compared with 1,420 the week he I.ore*.In Uu^20,l 12 casualties, total deaths including 291 lost at sea, men killed in action, dead of wounds, disease, accidents and other causes numbered7.7.10—soldiers 0,882; mafliies, 822. 2'he wounded aggregate 10,H74—•soldi era 9,048; marines, 1,820, and themissing including prisoners, 1,522 — soldiers ],4ftI; marines 91.Of the week’s increase, deaths from all causes, aggregated 1,572 as compared with 051 the week ho fore; the wounded numbered 2,010, compared with 722 the previous week and the missing am! prisoners 724, compared with 74 the week before.Wthile the proportion of the deathsfor the week as compared with the wounded was large, attention was called to the fact that the casualties being reported now by General Pershing represents an accumulation as the result of the fighting which began July 15 and it is not to be assumed that the ratio of killed and the wounded will, he maintained when the final toll ofthe Marne-Aisnc victory is complete.Because of the fact that the Americans were brigaded in the fighting with British and French forces, many of the wounded were taken to French and British hospitals and the task ofcollecting their names was a difficult»one. The problem of securing the names of the killed and missing was said to be much simpler and this is l iken here to account for the relatively large numbers of killed and missing reported in the first lists.The following North Carolinians are reported in the casualty lists since Thursday:Army—Lloyd L. Watorfield, Knotts Island, Currituck county, killed in action; William C. Leonard. Cedar Falls, Randolph county, wounded, degree undetermined; Joseph L. Pearce,!, Rolma, died of wounds; Rosier Gotigs, Bakersville, wounded severely; Buy P. Rose, New Berne, woinRled severely; Coy J. Winstead. Roxboro, killed in action: Dewey A.
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Statesville Landmark
Statesville, North Carolina, US
Tue, Aug 13, 1918
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