The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-01-30
Thursday, January 80, 1880


4,799, divided as follows: U. S.
Army, ALSO; u, S. Marine Corps
$40. OF these, Starns county's
share is 113; U. S. Army, liz; U. 5.
Marine Corps, 1.
Reduced to percentages, the
county serving with other armies
of the Allies are listed as wounded.
Lieut.. Charles F. Moore, st. Cloud,
who served with the Royal Flying
Corps, England, was severely in
.jured. Part of his jaw was torn
away, and he was treated by means
of the plastic surgery used so much
during this particular war.
Lance Corporal G. M. Jarsneau,
Jr., ST. Cloud. serving with the Ca
madam Infantry. was twice wound
ed. He took part in the following
overseas engagements: Hull 70;
Passchendaele; Aminens; Canal du
Nord.
Among former residents of the
county listed as severely wounded
are Philip v. Hankes, Minneapo-
lis, formerly of Gutenberg, and
<ailIoily IIdSCl, oiSO VI XhiiAAS
apolis, formerly, of Albany.
Mention may well be made here
also of Pvt. Earl w. Brown, Sank
Centre, r. 2, Army, although he
was never officially listed as
wounded or wore a wound stripe.
He was nevertheless a casualt.
According to the official record, he
was honorably discharged early in
1918 on surgeons certificate of
disability, being pronounced one
hundred percent disabled. He died
two months later
City of st. Cloud
The following residents of ST..
Cloud, Benton and Sherburne coun-
ties, are listed as wounded.
Pvt. Philip Beaudreau, st. Cloud,
Army. Wo. slightly.
Pvt. 1st Glass, Charles A. Fled
Ter, ST. Cloud, Army. Wo. slightly.
Engts.: st. Mihiel, Argonne-Meuse,
Wesserling, Gerardner.
Pvt. VIM. A. Mccarthy, st. Cloud,
Army. Wo. degree undetermined.
Pvt Leonard P. Nelson, ST.
Cloud, r. 6, Army. Wo. degree I'M
determined.
Sgt. John Shaddock, st. Cloud, r.
I, Army. Wo. slightly.
A resident of East st. Cloud, who
was wounded while fighting with
other Allied armies was Ray M.
Murphy, who after being refused
permission to remain with the
151st Field Artillery, because of
being under age, joined the Cana
dian forces and served with them
for some tine.
The total number of dead for St.
Cloud, Stearns, Benton, and Sher-
burne counties including rural
routes is 80; wounded, IS.
All figures and percentages in
cluded in this very limited survey
of the part which our community
played in the great World war are
based in the list of service men and
women who served with the forces
of the United States, and gave their
addresses as Stearns county, or
st. Cloud. This is in accordance
with the basis of compilation used
by the government authorities. For
instance, a request made to the Ad-
jutant General at Washington. D.
c., for information regarding the
number of men from Minnesota
who served during the war brought
the reply that there were 104 AIS
individuals, including Officers,
Army Field Clerks, Army Nurses,
Cadets of the United States Mill
tary Academy, and Enlisted men,
who served in the United States
Army during the World war and
who, at time of entry to service,
gave their residence as in the State
of Minnesota" The total number
of men from the county, as COM
pared with the state, will be given
later.
Prisoner of War
Only two Stearns county soldiers
are officially listed as prisoners of
war.
Pvt. John P. Jonas, Albany, R.
1, member of Co. I, 357th Infan-
try was captured on Sept. 80, 1918.
The notation on his service card
add. Released from German Pris-
on to Hospital" He died later, and
is on the county's Gold Star list
He took part in the battle of st.
Mihiel
Lieut.. Harold w. Riley, of st.
Cloud had perhaps the most varied
war experience of any Stearns
county man. In May, 1917, short
ly after the United States cast its
lot with the Allies, he went to
France and for some months serv-
ed with the French army as an am
bulance driver, as did many other
young men from this country. In
October, 1917, when the vanguard
of the American Expeditionary
forces had begun to arrive over
seas, he joined the Engineers Re
serve Corps at Paris. For the year
following he served with the av-
iation section of the American for
ces and at the close of the war was
first lieutenant with the Air Ser
vice, Signal Corps, as member of
the oath Aero Squadron. lie was
wounded in action at Verdun, and
took part in the battles of st. Mi
hiel and Meuse-Argonne.
Plane Brought Down
On October 9, 1918, he and a
companion were sent forward to
fly over the German lines and OBJ
tain needed information. The an
ticraft guns of the enemy found
their plane. and they were brought
down in German territory. They
We're reported missing, and for
weeks relatives and friends in ST.
Cloud were in ignorance of the