During the First World War, the draft of young men to serve in the army was referred to as conscription. The word was derived from the verb 'to enroll.'
The first selective service law enacted to conscript young men into the United States Army was passed for registration on 05 June 1917. It resulted in 9,586,508 men between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-one being enrolled and 625,000 being picked and sent to begin training. The registration was repeated a year later, on the 5th of June and the 24th of August 1918 for men who had reached twenty-one years of age by those dates. The second selective service law was passed to include all men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five not included in the first draft. It resulted in the enrollment of over 13,000,000 men.
The registration of able bodied men between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-one that was scheduled for the 5th of June 1917, took place at the polling places in each of the townships and boroughs. The assessors of those municipalities were instructed in how to take the men's names. A heavy penalty was imposed on any man who failed to register.
A review board was established consisting of Dr. Walter Hill, Sheriff Andrew Dodson and Prothonotary Charles Mock.
In the registration process, the young men signed their names on numbered sheets. From that point, they were identified only by the numbers. The review board marked the sheets to note which of the men would be exempted from serving. The remaining men's numbers were randomly drawn as in any lottery. The men whose numbers were drawn in that lottery were expected to present themselves for military service.
It should be noted that a fire destroyed many records on the night of 12 July 1973 at the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, Missouri. Most of the rosters from World War I were lost in that conflagration. The lists reproduced below are derived from the pages of the Bedford Gazette and include men who registered and were called for examination and men who actually left on the trains headed to the east coast from which they would travel overseas. The lists of registrants provide no proof of service, but the lists of the young men who actually boarded the trains headed for Camp Lee and other camps suggest that they actually served in Europe.
The Bedford Gazette issues of 13 July and 20 July 1917 published the names of 2800 young men who registered for the conscription. The list bore the heading: "The Gazette Publishes These for the Purpose of File and Future Reference and That People May See Who Have Registered and Who Have Not. The Drawing of Soldiers for This List Will Likely Take Place This Week or Not Later Than Next and the Exemption Board Will Meet Immediately After Draft, When Claims for Exemption Must Be Presented Without Delay. There Were 2800 Registered. One Out of Every 20 Will Be Selected or Bedford County Must Furnish 1440 As Its Quota."
The names of the first four hundred men to be chosen were published in the 24 August and the 31 August 1917 issues of the Bedford Gazette. Alongside various of the names were printed the reasons for their exemption from service. Some of those exemptions included 'dependent parents' or 'dependent wife' or simply 'rejection.' At least one individual was noted as exempted due to 'religious belief.'
On Friday, 21 September 1917, the Gazette reported that "72 Bedford County Sons Answered Nation's Call Wed." According to the article, "The boys requested that no demonstration be made of their departure and there was none." Included in that first group were: (from) Alum Bank: Ralph M. Knisely; Artemas: Harry L. Leasure; Bedford: Alton Diehl, Dennis J. Leasure, Milton Sammel and Jesse A. Wilson; Breezewood: Marshall G. Clouse; Buffalo Mills: Harvey A. Bohn and Oscar E. Bohn; Cessna: George C. Harbaugh and James H. Mock; Chaneysville: Grover C. Miller; Clearville: Kenneth Miller; Defiance: James L. Tenley, Jr.; Elbinsville: Barton L. Ruby; Everett: William G. Brantner, Warren J. Calhoun, Lawrence E. College, Walter Evans, Harry I. Gordon, Donal S. Laher, Ellis Mellott, Grant L. Norris, Marshall Pennel, John H. Price, Charles F. Sipes and Daniel R. Wilt; Hopewell: John W. Lowry; Hyndman: Shannon Evans, Shannon O. Mason and Melvin E. Shroyer; Imler: Wilbert E. Morehead; Inglesmith: Lester Arvin; Kegg: Warner E. Hillegass; Langdondale: Charles Swartz and William Wantryh; Loysburg: Alvin Long; Lutzville: Walter A. Morris; Madley: Elmer E. Holler; Manns Choice: William Basore, Rudy C. Crissy and Lee H. Diehl; New Enterprise: Guy R. Campbell and Jacob C. Klotz; Osterburg: David Berkheimer; Reynoldsdale: Bruce W. Hammer; Riddlesburg: Frederick Oaks; Saxton: George E. Rinard and Howard T. Weaverling; Schellsburg: Joseph S. Croyle and Albert Diehl; Six Mile Run: Isaiah G. Clouse, Howard A. Defibaugh, Harvey Dixon, Marshall J. Foster, Richard Grimes, Charles R. Martin, L. E. McIntyre, David F. Reese, David S. Rogers, Carl E. Roarabaugh and Charles R. Thomas; Sulphur Springs: John W. Zembower; Weyant: William Harvey Berkey; and Woodbury: Elwood C. Clouse and George A. Erb. Also included in this group of Bedford County young men were Perry F. Howsare, Marshall E. Iames, Robert W. Knight and Claude R. Trail of Flintstone, Maryland; William Franklin Potts of Gilpin, Maryland; and Frank J. O‘Brien of New Baltimore, Maryland.
Of the men listed above, Lawrence E. College, Walter Evans and Marshall Pennel of Everett were volunteers.
Fifty young men left Bedford County on Tuesday, 12 February 1918 headed for Camp Lee. Unlike the subdued departure of the boys in September of the previous year, the embarkation of the boys onto the train this time was joined with a band and nearly one thousand people to see them off.
On 22 March 1918, the Bedford Gazette provided another list of "names of the young men who were called by the draft board at Bedford, for examination for military service, Thursday."
On 29 March 1918, the Bedford Gazette reported that seventy-seven soldier boys were scheduled to leave Bedford "next Wednesday for Camp Lee!" They included (from) Alum Bank: Orval T. Beegle and Orval F. Mock; Artemas: James O. Martin; Bakers Summit: Julius V. Pote; Bedford: Marshall B. Evans, George D. Heming, Nelson R. Horne, Russell S. Miller, Arthur L. Russell, John A. Wagner and Jay Walters; Breezewood: Ambrose C. Foor and Charles O. Wright; Cessna: David C. Rininger; Chaneysville: Orbial Diehl, Cecil V. Miller and James S. Perdew; Clearville: Carl S. Markle; Cumberland Valley: Harvey E. Growder and Ranson B. Nave; Defiance: Chalice S. Overcash; Everett: Grover P. Barkman, F. H. Coleman, Percy W. Diehl, Stark A. Harmon, Harvey A. Miller; Isaac Raymond Mills, Harmon R. Pepple, Shannon E. Pepple, Levi J. Ritchey, Raymond E. Smith and Marshall Stayer; Fishertown: George S. Taylor; Hopewell: Charles F. Detwiler and William A. Shauf; Hyndman: William LeRoy Dickerhoof, Howard P. Miller, David H. Mitchell and William Henry Welsh; Imler: James Warren Defibaugh and Fred E. Shaffer; Loysburg: Clyde Walter; Lutzville: Lewis C. Manspeaker; New Paris: Frank R. Blackburn; Osterburg: Charles Blair Burket and John R. Kauffman; Pavia: Wilson A. Ickes; Queen: Jesse Roy Cox and Myrle Eicher; Rainsburg: Earl Howsare, Harold L. Shaffer and Charles P. Smith; Riddlesburg: George W. Eltman, Raymond O. Hamm and Hank Rinard; Saxton: Mariano De Angelers, James F. Deffibaugh, Perry B. Fisher, David F. Green, George F. Houp, Jesse C. Reed and Ross F. Shoemaker; Schellsburg: Isaac H. Croyle; Six Mile Run: Walter H. Harth and Samuel P. Ritchey; Woodbury: Salvator Gruttadania of Wood; and Levi S. Over.
A note was added to the end of the foregoing list stating that "The latter [Jay Walters of Bedford] was not called for this time but he volunteered to go now."
On 02 April 1918, a list of men who were "called for examination" was published in the Gazette. The 05 April 1918 issue of the Gazette provided a list of young men to be examined on April 9th and a second list of young men to be examined on April 10th.
Then, in the 17 May 1918 issue, a list was included of the "Boys To Go To Camp Lee ~ The Last Of This Month." That list included (from) Bakers Summit: Guy V. Mock; Bedford: Geary Biddle, Thomas O’C Donahoe, Jay M. Walter and Lloyd S. Weisel; Cessna: Rolla B. Bender, R. Clair Frederick and James E. Hershberger; Chaneysville: Howard M. Swartzwelder and Elmer Walters; Clearville: George E. Fleegle and Walter Layton; Cumberland Valley: Guy Snowden and Sherman R. Whipp; Defiance: Michael Burns; Everett: B. Frank Chamberlain, Grant Mellott, Harry A. Miller, D. Chester Robinson and Raymond E. Welsh; Hopewell: Percey Chaney, Roy L Dolon, Robert Leonard and Andrew J. Meck; Hyndman: Charles E. Bush, Walter Kennedy and William T. Miller; Imler: Jacob E. Colebaugh, Herman G. Emeigh and Harry J. Plummer; Kearney: Joseph M. DeCoorman; Loysburg: Andrew F. Miller; New Buena Vista: John E. Corley; Pavia: Clarence A. Corle; Queen: Warren S. Hoenstine, Rolland Ickes and Shannon C. Weyant; Rainsburg: Charles W. Ressler; Reynoldsdale: Howard Feather; Riddlesburg: Andrew J. Smith; Saxton: Chalmer C. Smith and Lawrence N. Smith; Six Mile Run: Clyde Baker, Charles Childers and Harry Fisher; Waterside: Raymond Stonerook; Woodbury: Joseph Amick; Yellow Creek: and Abram S. Hoover and Thomas C. Young. The article in the 17 May newspaper also stated: "Five of these Colored Men Leave for Camp Lee, also." Seven men's names were listed: Frank Crittendon, Jesse Thomas Wagner and Eugene Warren of Bedford; Luther Banks, Carl J. Boddy and Paul Turner of Everett; and Esrom O. Leftrich of Saxton.
A list of the young men who signed up in the second registration was published in the 14 June 1918 issue of the Gazette.
A group of sixty-six young men left Bedford County on Wednesday, 26 June at 4:23pm, bound for Camp Lee. The group included (from) Alum Bank: George Weyant Horner and George R. Morgart; Artemas: Kelley V. Northcraft; Bedford: Ernest F. Hibbard, Glen H. Shoemaker and Vincent Casper Straub; Breezewood: Blaine Ritchey; Buffalo Mills: Howard E. Benna; Chaneysville: Oscar Imes, William Percey Perrin and Albert R. Swartzwelder; Clearville: George A. Clingerman, Walter R. Kennard, John Koontz, Adam L. Snyder and Earl Ward; Defiance: James Marshall Foor and William Lloyd; Everett: Chester H. Bottomfield, Joseph Dibert, Chester Harrison Feight, Walter Feight, Elmer Jesse Gordon, Vernon E. Hixon, Albert J. Karns, Chester Guy Leach, Raymond Elbin Lee, Daniel W. McFarland, William Mearkle, George Pittman, Clarence M. Reeder, Vernon B. Ritchey, James F. Simpson, Charles Calvin Sparks and Chester Arthur Wilt; Hopewell: William Henry Border; Hyndman: Milton H. K. Aberle, James Luther Hite, William Ranolds Jordan, John L. Shroyer and Roy Snider; Imler: William Lincoln Brumbaugh; Kearney: James F. Patterson; Langdondale: Lewis Kushtos; Manns Choice: Franklin J. Marshall; New Enterprise: Herman Furry and Franklin Rock; New Paris: Ralph Studebaker; Osterburg: Herman R. Colebaugh; Queen: Robert Bruce Walter; Rainsburg: Charles Paul Cessna; Riddlesburg: Charles B. Hall; Salemville: Harry Alton Baker; Saxton: Altno Carberry, William Raymond Cypher and Lewis C. Kelly; Schellsburg: Blair V. Shaffer; Six Mile Run: William Lane, William McKnight, George W. Noel and Russell Walls; Saxton: Ross F. Shoemaker; and Wolfsburg: Thomas R. Brown.
In addition to the foregoing list, Thomas Earl Barkman of Bedford and Samuel W. H. Shuss of Everett were noted as 'transferred to Bedford.' Also, Richard M. Imler of Bedford was inducted into the Medical Department of Camp Greenleaf at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia on 17 June 1918.
The Friday, 12 July 1918 issue of the Gazette included the following names of young men who would leave for Camp Lee on Thursday 25 July. (From) Alum Bank: Oscar H. Davis; Artemas: Conser Johnson and George E. Martin; Bakers Summit: Elmer T. Appleman and Emory W. Myers; Bedford: Chalmer Calhoun, William R. Dibert, Frank Diehl, Raymond Diehl, Lester Feathers, Russell Hoopengardner, W. Ross Lysinger, Robert C. Sill, Percy W. Smith, Thomas H. Stiffler and S. N. Wolford; Cessna: Roy Hinish and John R. Lane of Breezewood; C. E. Bittinger; Chaneysville: Frank C. Gordon and Frank L. Johnson; Clearville: Charles R. Hanks, Cyrus Kennard and John B. Rice; Defiance: Shannon Davis, Charles P. McCavitt and David E. Thomas; Everett: William Earl Batzel, Walter M. Border; B. Frank Chamberlain, William Paul Coveney, H. T. Mellott, W. E. Miller, Fred V. Riley, Ben F. Rouzer and Raymond E. Smith; Hopewell: Harry Porter; Hyndman: E. E. Pyles, H. C. Ritchery, Ralph L. Sherman, Alvin Smith and William Twigg; Imler: George H. Defibaugh and Park Roudabush; Kearney: August Barton; Langdondale: Alex Gengeleskie, Charles W. Kline and Oisle Sattianx; Loysburg: Merrill J. Aaron and Jacob W. Furry; Manns Choice: Howard E. Diehl, F. J. Marshall and Elmer J. McVicker; Pavia: John H. Imler; Purcell: Chester Cavender; Queen: Elvin R. Langham; Rainsburg: Charles P. Cessna and George Sherman Rose; Riddlesburg: Jacob Ebin Banks and Joseph Geiger; Saxton: Meril C. Coy, George H. Davis, Charley Smith and Jesse W. Streepy; Schellsburg: Glen E. Egolf and John E. Egolf; Six Mile Run: Ollie Chamberlain and Chester S. Johnson, James Masood, Gilbert McIntyre and Harry H. Whited; and Waterside: Elwood Rock.
The Gazette noted on 19 July that thirty more young men were to be examined. The Gazette of the 26th of July included a list of men to be examined on 30 July and a second list of men to be examined on 31 July.
On 02 August 1918, a list of "Colored men to leave for Camp Custer, Michigan, Saturday, August 3, 1918, 8:57 a.m." was included on the front page of the Bedford Gazette. That list included: (from) Bedford: Frank Crittendon and Eugene Warren; Everett: Luther Banks, Carl J. Boody, Harry B. Matthews and Paul Turner and Saxton: Chester Haimes, Clarence Johnson, Esrom Leftrich and William Robinson.
On Wednesday, 08 August 1918, the following men left for Camp Wadsworth at Spartanburg, South Carolina. According to the Bedford Gazette of 09 August 1918 they included (from) Artemas: George E. Martin and Alva Lewis Sowers; Bakers Summit: Guy V. Mock; Bedford: Harry H. Dibert, Earl L. Hoopengardner, Edward H. Price and William Weinsickle; Cessna: Harry W. Bloom; Chaneysville: Edgar R. O’Neal; Clearville: Blair E. Dicken and Carl A. Mearkle; Cumberland Valley: James A Miller; Cypher: Karl Luther Besser; Defiance: David E. Thomas; Everett: Roy Bennett; Hyndman: William Clites; Imler: Ross Moses; Lutzville: Harry F. Koontz; Saxton: Samuel E. Kelly and Archibald Miller and Schellsburg: Joseph S. Croyle and Martin J. Seifert. Jacob Dunkle of Everett was scheduled to go to the University of Pittsburgh for special training.
On Tuesday, the 20th of August, another group of young men were called for examination.
The Friday, 30 August 1918 issue of the Gazette noted the names of fifty-nine young men who departed for Camp Lee the day previous. They included (from) Alum Bank: Clyde Woodward Cuppett, Martin McDowell and Roy Rouser; Artemas: Conser Johnson; Bakers Summit: John S. Hollinger and Warren Mock; Bedford: Stewart Enfield Eicholtz, Harry Robert Imler, Harper Isaac Harclerode, Lawson Mortimore and Chester A. Wertz; Breezewood: George Albert Swartzwelder; Buffalo Mills: George G. Adams and Edward R. Brant; Chapman's Run: Ira Clingerman; Clearville: Vernon D. Leasure; Cumberland Valley: Howard Marshall Miler; Everett: Carl Albert Benson, Marshall Jacob Brantner, Charles C. Cornell, Augustus Harrison Felton, Russell Edwin Foreman, Samuel Orville Gordon, Vernon E. Hixon, John Linner, George R. Price, Joseph Earl Riley and Quay Scott; Hopewell: George C. Rice and Isaac Alexander Whitfield; Hyndman: Melvin Chester Close, Stephen John Gaster and Claude Ellsworth Shaffer; Imler: Charles R. Claycomb; Inglesmith: Chester W. Clingerman and Jordan Reynolds Clingerman; Lutzville: Thomas Mason McCabe and Rufus Doyle Nave; New Buena Vista: George E. Turner; New Enterprise: Daniel Clayton Hoover; Pavia: Horace Clair Chappell and George Albert Corle; Purcell: Augusta Albert Gordon; Riddlesburg: Paul Figard and Thomas J. Rinard; Saxton: Earl Vermont Benner, John Cleezs, Sherman Detwiler, Elvin Paul Dilling, Harry Dunnad, Charles E. Green, Spencer Richardson McCahan and Albert Eli Mooreland; Six Mile Run: James Harold Corbett; Wolfsburg: L. S. Ross Whetstone and John Earl Woy and Woodbury: Lester Replogle Sell and Roy M. Walter. Anson C. Pepple of Bedford; Frank C. Bruck of Hyndman; Ira Campbell of New Enterprise and Fletcher Morse of Piney Creek were scheduled to leave that Friday for Camp Green in North Carolina.
The Oscar Jordan Post of the V.F.W. at Hyndman sponsored the production of a book devoted to the men from Hyndman and the surrounding region who served in the two world wars. The names of eight men who served in World War I, but who were not mentioned in the newspaper articles, included Charles A. Deckerhoff, Floyd G. Hite, Virgil Carl Hite, Walter G. Leydig, Clyde E. Logsdon, James Henry Pick, John Irvin Ritchey and Leroy Schleuss.
The first casualties of Bedford County boys in the Great War were reported in the Bedford Gazette in the issue of 06 September 1918. The headline stated: "Three Bedford County Boys Killed in Action / Five Are Severely Wounded." The article named Howard Pardoe Booty of Bedford, William S. P. Cathers of Pavia and Adolphus Andrew Hymes of Schellsburg as having been killed. The wounded soldiers were Reuben Henry Gardner of Pavia, George Washington Clark of Everett, George Mowry of Kegg, Samuel H. Ickes of Wolfsburg and Burtram Leader of Bedford.
An item that came out of the First World War should be mentioned here. In September 1917, the design of a special flag was entered into the Congressional Record. Commonly known as the 'blue star flag', the flag had the same ten to nineteen ratio as the United States flag. It consisted of a red field with a horizontal white rectangle in the center. Within the rectangle were two five-point blue stars. The flag was created to be presented to families who had a family member in the service during the War. The flag later evolved as the Gold Star flag during the Second World War, and has continued as such to the present day.
On 20 September 1918, the Gazette reported that Oscar Dull of Point was killed in action. Murry College of Breezewood and Alexander Livingston of Reynoldsdale were reported as severely wounded. And Harry Zeigler of Spring Hope was reported as missing. Two months later, in the 29 November 1918 issue of the Gazette, Alexander McPherson Russell was reported as having been killed in action.
On November 11, 1918 the Great War, subsequently known as World War I, came to an end. An armistice was signed by Germany in a railroad carriage at Compiegne at 5:00am with a ceasefire scheduled to begin at 11:00am. The formal end of the war came on 28 June 1919 with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.
In 1930, as part of the WPA program, all of the veterans of World War I who were still living were interviewed about their war experience. The following list, therefore, is not a complete list of all of the young men who served in World War I, but the ones who served and later came back to reside in Bedford County after the War. The names which appear in italics denoted men whose birth in Bedford County is questionable.
John Amos Acker, George G. Adams, Marshall M. Akers, Charles Allen, Charles W. Allen, William J. Alexander, Emory E. Amick, Ira E. Amick, Marshall F. Amick, Robert P. Amos, Fred I. Arnold, Charles R. Ashba, Guy C. Askey, Wilmont C. Ayres, Elmer F. Baer, Harry W. Bagley, Walter E. Bagley, William H. Bagley, Clarence L. Bailey, Guy W. Bailey, Blair C. Baker, Chester R. Banks, Jack E. Banks, John Banner, William Barley, James C. Barnes, Eugene C. Barnett, Jesse A. Barnett, William Basore, John Bartievicz, William E. Batzel, Harry G. Baumgardner, Jacob R. Baumgardner, Fred C. Baylor, Ross S. Baylor, Edgar I. Beck, Grover C. Beck, Orval F. Beegle, James L. Benner, Roy Bennett, Rollo B. Bender, Karl Luther Besser, Edwin S. Bessler, Geart Biddle, Virgil E. Biddle, William H. Birkey, Harry M. Bisel, Elias H. Blackburn, Harry C. Blackburn, Thomas I. Blackburn, J. Russell Blackburn, Charles Blair, Conda E. Blankley, Earl G. Blankley, W. Harry Bloom, Harvey A. Bohn, Oscar E. Bohn, Walter M. Border, William H. Border, Edwin S. Bossler, Chester Herbert Bottomfield, Earl D. Bowman, Robert M. Bowen, John Bradley, Robert G. Bradley, Wilmer Brallier, William Brallier, Edwad Brant, Maurice Victor Brant, Marshall J. Brantner, John H. Bridaham, Victor L. Bridaham, Christopher Brockey, Joseph L. Brodesky, Bruce H. Brown, Earl D. Brown, Mark H. Bulger, John F. Burkett, David Burkett, Elmer W. Burkett, Oscar Burket, George E. Burnham, Charles E. Bush, William H. Bush, Chalmer Calhoun, William Borton Calhoun, Harry C. Cameron, Ira L. Campbell, Alton D. Carberry, Marshall A. Cartwright, W. A. Cawley, Percy B. Chamberlain, Harry E. Chambers, Charles L. Chaney, Moses Claar, C. R. Clapper, Roy S. Clark, Andrew Claycomb, Herbert L. Cline, Ira Clingerman, Henry M. Clites, Isaiah G. Clouse, Marshall G. Clouse, Charles S. Coffman, Herman R. Colebaugh, Lawrence E. College, Murray College, Hubert C. Colvin, John W. Confer, Dow S. Conrath, Ben F. Conway, Noah C. Cook, Russell B. Cook, Edson C. Corle, George A. Corle, John E. Corley, William M. Cornell, Jesse R. Cox, George W. Coy, Jesse W. Cramer, Carl H. Crawford, John H. Christ, Samuel H. Critchfield, George A. Crooks, Carl C. Crouse, Roy B. Crownover, Ellsworth Croyle, Chester G. Culp, Russell S. Cunard, Jacob M. Custer, William R. Cypher, George H. Dair, Thomas P. Dalton, George H. Davis, John Helm Davis, Austin S. Diehl, Clarence A. Diehl, Howard E. Diehl, Norman C. Diehl, Orbial Diehl, Oscar E. Diehl, Stanley E. Diehl, Joseph M. Docooman, George H. Defibaugh, Howard Defibaugh, James F. Defibaugh, James G. Dennis, Ira T. Detwiler, Sherman Detwiler, Harry J. Dibert, John S. Dibert, Joseph Dibert, William Ralph Dibert, Daniel Dick, Hobart G. Dick, Earnest Dicken, Marshall Dickens, Elvin P. Dilling, Joseph Roy Dishong, John S. Dittmar, Harry S. Dively, Harvey L. Dixon, Charles L. Dodson, Henry H. Dodson, Ira M. Dodson, Roy Leo Dolan, Edgar V. Dollard, John A. Donahoe, Thomas O. Donahoe, Thomas H. Donaldson, Richard P. Dorman, Raymond Walter Drenning, Raymond Dull, Louis W. Dumpert, Jacob A. Dunkle, Russell W. Dunlap, Jesse Roy Earley, Dexter Stark Easton, John Earl Egolf, Roy Eichelberger, Chester Alex Eichelberger, Claude E. Eicher, Myrtle Eicher, Edward A. Eicher, Stewart Enfield Eicholtz, Herbert G. Emeigh, Thomas Emerick, George A. Erb, Jason H. Eshelman, Shannon Evans, Walter Evans, Guy E. Everhart, Lester Feathers, Chester H. Feight, Edwin B. Felton, Gusta H. Felton, Walter M. Felton, Walter L. Ferrell, Charles I. Fetters, William M. Fetters, Glenn Figard, Bernard F. Fisher, Chester I. Fisher, David U. Fisher, George H. Fisher, Harry H. Fisher, John Mark Fisher, Perry B. Fisher, Samuel Homer Fisher, Clinton I. Fleegle, George H. Fleegle, Michael P. Flemming, Charles Fletcher, Vernon W. Fletcher, William R. Flough, J. Norald Fluke, William G. Fluke, Harry P. Foor, John C. Foor, Rolland E. Foor, George P. Foreman, Homer F. Foreman, Joseph Elmer Foster, Walter L. Fritz, Herman Furry, Jacob W. Furry, George L. Fyler, Edwin H. Gamber, Charles O. Garber, David R. Gardner, Ruben H. Gardner, Russell D. Gardner, Harry H. Gaudig, Homer F. Gaudig, William M. Gearinger, Calvin V. Geisler, Edwin E. Gibboney, Harry Giffin, Russell Giffin, Farrell F. Gochnour, Levi D. Goodrich, Elmer J. Gordon, Gusta H. Gordon, Harvey E. Gordon, John H. Gordon, Homer F. Goudy, Edgar A. Grabill, Norman S. Greenawalt, John A. Grew, Richard Grimes, R. D. Grissinger, Frank Guillard, John Lawrence Guyer, Walter R. Guyton, Charles B. Hall, Harry Hall, Herman I. Hamm, Raymond O. Hawn, Bruce W. Hammer, George Henry Hankinson, Watson W. Hanks, George C. Harbaugh, Carl D. Hardman, H. Eugene Hardman, Robert L. Hardman, Stark A. Harmon, Daniel O. Harris, Calton Heckerman, George C. Heit, Joseph Heit, Warren I. Helsel, George D. Henning, David R. Hengst, John W. Hengst, Warren G. Hengst, Andrew F. Henry, John King Henry Jr., Henry W. Herline, Franklin H. Herman, George H. Herman, Fred L. Hershberger, George R. Hershberger, Herbert J. Hershberger, Paul H. Hershberger, Robert C. Hershberger, Simon H. Hershberger, Harry L. Hetrick, Joseph Hiester, Howard C. Hill, George E. Hillegass, Warren E. Hillegass, Chester S. Himes, Earl C. Hinish, William H. Hinish, Foster F. Hitchew, Calvin P. Hite, James L. Hite, Vernon E. Hixon, Robert H. Hoagland, Thomas E. Hochard, Warren S. Hoenstine, Elmer E. Holler, Robert R. Holler, Roy E. Holler, William E. Holler, Earl L. Hoopengardner, Riley Hoopen-gardner, Russell J. Hoopengardner, Abraham S. Hoover, Paul Hoover, Harry O. Horton, George F. Houp, Earl N. Howard, Ralph A. Howard, Percy F. Howsare, Burl V. Huffman, Francis P. Hughes, Philip J. Hughes, Benjamin P. Hunt, William T. Huster, Abner R. Iames, John Iames, Oscar Iames, Roy Iames, Clarence H. Ickes, Samuel H. Ickes, Sewell W. Ickes, Scott R. Ickes, Winfield A. Ickes, Urban J. Imgrund, Harry R. Imler, Raymond Jay, Thomas Jay, Alvie Johnson, Arlie Thomas Jones, Robert L. Kadison, Albert J. Karns, Edgar M. Karns, Julius F. Karnes, William Augustus Karns, John Ross Kauffman, Shannon R. Kauffman, Lewis C. Kelly, Michael B. Kelly, Samuel E. Kelley, Cyrus I. Kennard, George O. Kerr, Mason J. Kerr, A. A. Kettren, James R. Keys, Chester Kifer, Clarence H. Kinzey, Charles W. Kline, Earnest L. Koch, Harry Franklin Koontz, James B. Koontz, John F. Koontz, Rudy G. Kund, Lewis Kushtos, Charles R. Laher, Donald S. Laher, John R. Lane, Harry Lanehart, Elvin R. Langham, Oscar S. Lashley, Chester Guy Leach, Thomas Leader, Vernon D. Leasure, James Corral Lee, Harry P. Leanard, Homer Benjamin Lenhart, William A. Lenin, Harry C. Lesh, Frank V. Lessig, Charles C. Levergood, Samuel G. Levey, Walter Guy Leydig, Richard W. Lins, Alexander Livingston, Leo Livingston, Clyde E. Logsdon, Paul J. Logue, Charles O. Long, Marvin E. Long, John Warren Lowry, Samuel A. Lynn, William M. McAllister, Spencer R. McCahan, Charles P. McCavitt, Winfield S. McCoy, William Harrison McDonald, Elmer J. McKinney, Gilbert C. McIntyre, Lemuel E. McIntyre, Ralph G. McIntyre, Robert E. McIntyre, Elmer J. McVicker, F. A. McGee, John K. Mannock, Lewis C. Manspeaker, Elmer Harter Marshall, Frank Rittner Marshall, Samuel J. Marshall, Charles R. Martin, George E. Martin, James O. Martin, James A Masood, Harry B. Matthews, Clyde L. Maugle, Edward Harrison Maugle, Harvey A. Mauk, William M. Mauk, Elwyn B. Mays, Edward L. Means, Silas Means, William Mearkle, Frank Mellott, Grant Mellott, Richard Runion Melvin, Ray Mentzer, Clair H. Mickey, Lee C. Mickle, Joseph Ream Middleton, Neal Middleton, William L. Milburn, Cecil V. Miller, Dewey H. Miller, Guy S. Miller, James Augustus Miller, Joseph F. Miller, Kenneth H. Miller, Martin D. Miller, Ross E. Miller, Samuel I. Miller, Van A. Miller, Wilbert E. Miller, William A. Miller, William F. Miller, Sam K. Minnick, Carl F. Mobus, Guy V. Mock, Joseph H. Mock, Orville F. Mock, Richard E. Mock, Warren M. Mock, Warren O. Mock, Luther N. Mong, Grover Cleveland Moore, John H. Moorehead, Wilbert E. Moorehead, Albert E. Moreland, George R. Morgart, John A. Morningstar, McKinley Morris, Walter A. Morris, Albert C. Morse, Fletcher E. Morse, Arthur J. Mort, Charley E. Mort, Lawson G. Mortimore, Ross Moses, Norman Mower, Charles W. Mowery, Stewart Musser, William J. Nagler, Sherman R. Nave, AlbertNearhood, Alexander A. Neuder, Albert B. Newell, Howard F. Nicodemus, Isaac R. Nicodemus, George W. Noel, Grant T. Norris, Elmer V. Northcraft, Herman Roy Northcraft, Kelly Northcraft, Chester P. Nycum, Emery C. Nycum, Frederick Oaks, Paul Oaks, R. J. Oldham, Cambridge G. O’Neal, Edgar R. O’Neal, Horton O’Neal, Charles A. O’Neill, Walter Joseph O’Neil, Daniel P. O’Shea, Thomas Norman O’Shea, Samuel F. Over, James S. Pardew, James Lawrence Pennel, Marshall Pennel, Anson C. Pepple, Herman Ross Pepple, Ralph F. Perrin, William P. Perrin, Augustus R. Peters, George W. Pittman, Henry J. Pleacher, John W. Pleacher, George W. Poole, Julius V. Pote, William F. Potts, David Lloyd Price, Edward H. Price, Ellis K. Price, George R. Price, Herman H. Prieto, Harry J. Plummer, Herbert L. Ramsey, Elmer C. Ranker, James E. Ray, Carl E. Reed, Charles E. Reed, Jesse C. Reed, Paul Reed, Clarence M. Reeder, Samuel M. Reeder, David F. Reese, Paul Richard Reese, Joseph H. Reidler, Ealor S. Reighard, Oscar Reininger, Elvin H. Replogle, William E. Replogle, Don C. Repper, Grant J. Rhodes, Walter Rhodes, John B. Rice, Walter C. Rice, A. J. Riley, Charles R. Riley, Edgar S. Riley, Joseph E. Riley, George E. Rinard, Blaine E. Ritchey, Carl J. Ritchey, Clinton W. Ritchey, Earl S. Ritchey, Howard D. Ritchey, Hugh M. Ritchey, James W. Ritchey, Jason H. Ritchey, Mal Ritchey, Robert R. Ritchey, Samuel P. Ritchey, William E. Ritchey, Wilmer Louis Ritchey, Vernan B. Ritchey, Very B. Ritchey, David F. Ritchie, Cloyd Roarabaugh, George E. Robinette, David S. Rogers, James Rogers, Sarge B. Rohm, Frederick C. Rohrer, Clayton Rose, George Rose, Roy W. Rose, Howard E. Roudabush, Ross Park Roudabush, Benjamin F. Rouzer, Irvin R. Ruby, Simon Elwood Ruby, Richard Melvin Runyon, Samuel L. Russell, David A. Sammel, Milton Sammel, Samuel Scalia, Howard Lester Schaeffer, Leroy Schleuss, Samuel H. Scritchfield, Martin J, Seifert, Lester R. Sell, Carl A. Senn, Fred E. Shaeffer, Charles Edward Shaffer, Claude E. Shaffer, Emory E. Shaffer, Harry F. Sheafer, Jesse D. Shaffer, Kenneth L. Shaffer, Merrill C. Shaffer, Spencer S. Shannon, Clarence Edgar Shappell, Vivian A. Shaw, George B. Shearley, William M. Sheavly, Charles T. Sheck, Marshall W. Sheeder, Roscoe Sheeder, Ralph Leroy Sherman, Harry W. Shimer, Charles C. Shoemaker, Fred C. Shoemaker, H. Glenn Shoemaker, Ross F. Shoemaker, Cyrus F. Shriver, John L. Shroyer, Melvin Elsworth Shroyer, George Frank Shuck, Joseph A. Shuck, Cloyd G. Shue, Frank Simpson, Charles F. Sipes, Dwight Robert Sipes, Frank C. Sipes, George Skipper, William T. Skipper, Edward S. Slick, Albert J. Smith, Andrew J. Smith, Chalmer C. Smith, Charles P. Smith, Clarence Hetrick Smith, Chelten W. Smith, Earl W. Smith, Elmer T. Smith, Lawrence M. Smith, Percy W. Smith, Raymond E. Smith, Virgil M. Smith, Charles R. Smouse, R. B. Snell, Earl Snively, Adam L. Snyder, Ezra P. Snyder, Harry S. Snyder, Herman Snyder, Thomas L. Snyder, Orsie Sottiaux, Elmer C. Spade, John W. Spencer, Lincoln B. Spencer, Philip H. Sponsler, William Karl Stake, Harmon A. Stark, Leroy Statler, Claude C. Steiner, Durban H. Steiner, George E. Stickler, Thomas H. Stiffler, John Stiver, Thomas Vincent Straub, Jesse W. Streepy, Charles G. Stufft, Harry Stufft, Russell E. Stufft, Thomas Stufft, Lee Stumbaugh, Paul Aaron Stump, Robert D. Sturtz, Albert Roy Swartzwelder, George A. Swartzwelder, Howard M. Swartzwelder, Grabriel Takides, Charles Ritchie Taylor, Edwin Rea Taylor, James L. Tenley Jr., Thomas R. Tenley, Henry G. Theys, Charles A. Thomas, David E. Thomas, Gilbert Thomas, James K. Thompson, N. A. Timmins, Harry S. Tinley, Harper Tripplet, John S. Truhan, Andrew Earl Turner, Calvin L. Turner, George E. Turner, Jordan L. Turner, Ross U. Turner, William C. Twigg, James R. Wagner, Jess T. Wagner, John A. Wagner, Robert L. Wagner, John A. Wallace, Russell Walls, Elmer Walters, James M. Walter, Earl L. Ward, Sam W. Ware, Elmer C. Warell, Charles Warmuth, Roscoe Waters, John E. Way, Samuel Wayne, Gerald Weaver, Warren G. Weaver, Harold Weaverling, Howard T. Weaverling, Vaughn D. When, Raymond E. Welsh, William H. Welsh, David A. Wentz, Joseph A. Wentz, Oscar Wertz, Charles B. Weyant, Shannon C. Weyant, Charles R. Weyent, James E. Weyent, Walter R. Weyent, Henry Oscar Whetstone, Ross S. Whetstone, Sherman R. Whipp, Ivan R. White, Harry H. Whited, Robert L. Whitehead Jr., Isaac A. Whitehead, John L. Whysong, William E. Whysong, Walter E. Wigfield, Harrison S. Wilkins, Tarence G. Will, Charles A. Willoughby, Ervin E. Wills, Chester A. Wilt, Daniel R. Wilt, Earnest Paul Windman, Russell J. Wineland, Norman E. Wise, Rudolf Wolfe, Clement E. Wolfhope, Elmer Clay Worell, Albert L. Wynn, Thomas C. Young, James Leroy Zeigler, Thomas F. Zeigler, John W. Zembower, Walter W. Zembower.
Overall casualties during the Great War, or World War I, amounted to 116,516 deaths and 204,002 wounded.