West Virginia Casualties IN THE War With Germany COMPILED BY BOYD B. STUTLER REPRINTED FROM THE 1924 EDITION OF THE WEST VIRGINIA HAND BOOK AND MANUAL JOHN T. HARRIS CLERK OF THE SENATE Editor and Compiler 1924 THE JARRETT PRINTING COMPANY Charleston H 266892 MARCH 1930 WEST VIRGINIA CASUALTIES IN THE WAR WITH GERMANY (By BOYD B. STUTLER) In the compilation of the list of West Virginia casualties in the war with Germany a diligent search of all the available records has been made in an effort to make the list as complete as possible, and no pains have been spared toward that end. The lists of names of those killed in action and those who died of wounds and disease, included in a former edition, has been checked carefully and a number of corrections made. A list of almost three thousand names of West Virginians wounded in action has been added. This list has been carefully compiled from the official records and is as nearly complete as it is possible to make it at this time. In the course of gathering data from some sixty thousand cards filed for West Virginians who saw service in the great war it would be strange indeed if some errors were not made, and to check and sort the record cards of the four million American soldiers on file in the archives at Washington, without errors, would be stranger. With a population of less than 1,400,000, West Virginia furnished approximately sixty thousand men to the army and navy for service in the war with Germany. Of this number almost two thousand died while in the service; 571 killed in action, 194 died of wounds received in action, 356 died of disease and other causes overseas and 691 died of disease and other causes in the camps and cantonments in the United States. Records have been preserved of almost three thousand West Virginians wounded in battle or at the hands of the enemy, but only fifty-one were taken prisoners and carried into the camp of the enemy. One-twelfth of the whole number of West Virginians in service during the war period either became casualties at the hands of the enemy or died of disease or other causes-a very high percentage and one that places the soldiery of the Mountain State in the first rank in this respect. West Virginia was represented in almost every combat unit and on every battlefield after the entry of America into the war. The record · of her soldiers is one that can be pointed to with pride, and it is due the heroic sons of a great State that their record of service and sacrifice be preserved. |