Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-15
Bodies of Yanks
Slain in Action to
Arrive Tuesday
Walter Weller, Omaha Boy
and Clyde Kilgore, Bluffs
Youth, to Be in Lot of
Twenty-Five.

Bodies OF q American soldiers
who were killed in action or wllc
died of wounds received in the latter
days of the great war will arrive i7
Omaha Tuesday morning for distri-
button at their former homes in Ne
braska, Iowa, Kansas, South Da-
kota and Missouri.
Among the bodies are those oi
Walter Weller, son of Nicholas
Weller, 2222 South Thirty-hrst street
Omaha, and Clyde Kilgore, son OF
]. J. kilgore, 24l2 Avenue B. Coun-
Gil Bluffs. Walter Weller was bora
in Omaha and attended the public
schools and Creighton. He was
employed as mailer by All Omaha
paper for two years and then went
to San Francisco, where he was en-
ployed for some time by the Exanin-
cr before he enlisted in the army in
March, 1918.
Killed Near Steinbrugge
After enlistment Weller was as
signed to Company +, 362d infantry
of the 9lst division, with which or
ganization he saw much OF the hot
fighting in the autumn preceding
the armistice.
In the latter part of September the
9lst was ordered to take Gesnes at
all costs" and Weiler's outh: went
into the lines near Avocourt on the
morning of September 26. For sey-
eral days they advanced steadily
against the Germans, driving them
back with heavy losses until they
reached a sector near Steinbrugge,
Belgium, where the retreating Ger
mans made stand and hot fighting
cnsued.
Weller was killed here October 81
along with a number of his COM
pany buddies.
Funeral arrangements will be
made later by the parents.
In Hot Fighting.
Clyde Kilgore was private in
Company B, 128th infantry, SD d.
vision. He had served several
months overseas and had taken part
in several hot fights.
Kilgore went into the front lines
near Juvigny, August 2o, 1918, and
FIVE days later received gunshot
wound in the head of which he
died, September l, in field hospital.
Patriotic bodies of Omaha and
Council Bluffs will have part in
both funerals.
Other Bodies.
Other bodies to arrive for distribu-
ton are: Pvt. Gaylor T. Simonson,
Company C, 128th infantry. O'Neil,
Neb.; Pvt. William M. Magarrcll,
machine gun company, 10th infantry,
Adair, Ia; Pvt. Oscar Henry Bart.
Icy, Company I, 10th marines, Anita,
Ia; Second 1t. Harvey c. Norman,
naval air forces, Davenport, Ia; Pvt.
Harry E. Ross, Company H, 10th
infantry, 1l06 Oak Park avenue, Des
Moines, Ia; Corp. John w. Arm
strong, Guilford, Mo-; Pvt. Louis c.
Frederickson, Company A, 10Th in
fantry, Marian, Ia; Pvt. Carey t.
Thurman, Company NJ, Sixth ma
rines, Walnut, Ia; Pvt. Ira ].
Wright, Company F, 10th transpor-
tation corps, Achilles, Kan; Bugler
Hardin, E. Stone, Company F, 18th
field artillery, Belvidere, Neb.; Pvt.
Walter r. Spicknall, Company F,
10th infantry, Roseland, Neb.; Pvt.
Hugh E. DeHart, Company F, 36lst
infantry, Nebraska City; Pvt. Leroy
Patchin, Company B, Sixth marines,
Seneca, Neb.; Corp. Arthur Ander-
son, Company G, Sixth marines, Val
paraiso, Neb.: Pvt. Robert Hinman,
Company G, 10th infantry, Hornick,
Ia; Second 1t. Bernard F. McNeel,
Company F. Ninth infantry. Meade,
Kan; Second 1t. Herbert K. Jones,
Company B, Sixth machine gun
battalion, Meade, Kan; Pvt. Sven
Peterson, Company H, Sixth ma
rines. Craig, Neb.; Pvt. Percy
Stricklan, Company !, 563d .infantry,
Edgemont, S. D.