Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-04-26
FIRST MARINE ].
CASUALTY 81 LIST !.
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Most Of Casualties Were4in
Olns Co.-Were Among
First Is Fight.

Washington. April 26.--The total
losses :nf the brigade OF marines with
the American expeditionaSy force I'M
France so far..reported-Was announced
Yesterday by Major General Barnett.
commandment of the corps: as as, di-s
Knledsin action, died from:
wounds. 10; died from accidents. q;
wounded in action 244... .
, Allsthe. deadLATe enlisted men bit
eight officers. two captains and six
lieutsnantsswera among the. wounded.
Fivesof. the enlisted men were slightly,
wounded,ss but General Barnett.s state
GERS and. other meA were severely. or
Most 81 the casualties were in one
company. which, General Barnett. said,
lost a total OF FL men killed and -14U
wounded out, Of a personnel of ESQ
The dates on which the marines were
KILLED. and wounded. were, not made
public. nor was 1t Indicated what part
OF the lire the Soldiers Of the sea"
are holding or in what actions they
have participated. Such, Information
is withheld for military reasons.
Held Front Line Sectbr. y
It Isl kndw n however. that the mar
ines have, been holding 4 front limo
trench sector. for. several weeks, hav-
ing been moved UP to' the battle line
after doing police duty along the
American lines of communication
since they first went to ,FranceNwith
the; vanguard OF General Pershing's
forces last summer. '-s
Yesterdays LIST was the first marine
corps casualty list made public. and
included all names reported Sup to
April %. Since. the marines are con-
sidered an, integral part Fofa the army
in France, officials had expected their
casualties to be included. In those of
the army announced by. the war de-
parth4ent.et Inquiry however; develop
ed such. was no the case. and. the
compiling of a complete list was or
i. dered by General I Barnett It waAfre-
garded as probable: some OF the names
announced today previously had been
regular army, lists madeipublic daily,
y Casualties Total 274.
General Barnett's first. announces
ment4 said the casualties totalledas274.
with. 81 enlisted men Killed and foul
officers and, 236. enlisted menSwound-
ed, Lister he .madd public the names
of four additional: officers and i've
enlisted men who had been wounded
When the list Of names referred: to. in
!. e;as,issue =, however. it was found tina,
It contained only FL names. with
thosezef two men duplicated leaving q
totalsrsof t,269. To. this Was added the
nine nan, es'- OF men, Wounded. which
were announced' later making. The
total casualties 27s. Considering thu
length of time the; marines have beer
were regarded as, comparatively small
The list follows: s.. .
Killed in action ~sergeants Alberi
Rada, dr., Edward L. Warren; Cor.
poral Chas. Il. 10th, Henry j.. Smart
John Formal. John Ii: Kuhn, Norman
r.. Jackson. &%&T,rivates Emil Gehrke
John ~steklenburg. Edward Drober
Rene J.FssIsstus. Walter j.. Ward, Ed
mund Eo!lack. Hugh +. Rodenbp. Ed.
ward 6. Gehlert, Glenn Samples, Al
fred f. Sehedek ALLEN W.. Jewett
VIM. "a Giles, Hpi,hpp re- 49, s
- a~sSr rs e. 49,
Tseabont. nv! ,Wtittstein, Claude l.
Reynolds; serzeasAeS Roscoe Bledsoe
Cecil Grimes. HafsIs5R., Williams, Les
lie H. Arthur. ~
Accidentally Killed: ss
Sergeant Bernard j.. Rowan: Pr;
vate tCfas, ". Graham 5,
Wounded in action:
Captain W: karsteadt; FRS
lAeuLenantS v. b. fEeu w
Clarke. Jr..gI.ouis r.. Jones'; Sergeant
Joseph Weitzel, Odil n. Kass, Leo H
Hernen. LLOYD E. Battles. Wilbur
.Blackford. Leroy Bailey. Dudley !
4. Brown. Charles S. Wehmer. Donal,
he Worries. Harry w. Puccetti. Mar
TN III. C"~rie. Walter u, Kelley
Frark !. Murray. Clarence r. PUN
lie. Mike / uslais. Karl. r.. Umler
Horace Mulyaney. Corporals Odon
r. Mart n. Edward F. Ansel, John r
Dunn, Aubrey ,T. Brown. Sam d. Ben