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Henry Nicholas John Gunther (June 6, 1895 – November 11, 1918) was an American soldier and possibly the last soldier of any of the belligerents to be killed during World War I. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He was killed at 10:59 a.m., about one minute before the Armistice was to take effect at 11:00 a.m. [ 2 ] [ 4 ]
Private George Edwin Ellison (10 August 1878 – 11 November 1918) was the last British soldier to be killed in action during the First World War.He died at 09:30 am (90 minutes before the armistice came into effect), shot by a sniper while on a patrol in woodland on the outskirts of Mons, Belgium.
A photograph of Sgt. Boyd Mulligan shows what the World War I veteran from Topeka looked like before being killed in battle in 1918 at the age of 26. Boyd Mulligan's remains were returned in 1921 ...
While Parr is believed to be the first British Army soldier to have been killed in action, he was not the first such British Armed Forces casualty during the war, as on 6 August 1914 the British cruiser HMS Amphion (1911) hit a German mine and sank, killing about 150 sailors of the Royal Navy. Nor was he the first British soldier to lose his ...
A typical village war memorial to soldiers killed in World War I. National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri, is a memorial dedicated to all Americans who served in World War I. The Liberty Memorial was dedicated on 1 November 1921. [338]
In one noteworthy incident on 2 May 1922, Montgomery led a force of 60 soldiers and 4 armoured cars to the town of Macroom to search for four British officers who were missing in the area. While he had hoped the show of force would assist in finding the men, he was under strict orders not to attack the IRA.
He was the second most highly decorated British private of the First World War [4] and is most commonly remembered as the soldier who allegedly spared Adolf Hitler's life during the first world war. Born with the family name of Tandy, he later changed his surname to Tandey after problems with his father, [ 5 ] [ vague ] and because of this ...
Henry Johnson biographical cartoon by Charles Alston, 1943.. Henry Johnson enlisted in the United States Armed Forces on June 5, 1917 as a 5-foot-4-inch young man. This was almost two months after the American entry into World War I, joining the all-black New York National Guard 15th Infantry Regiment, which, when mustered into Federal service, was redesignated as the 369th Infantry Regiment ...