Person:Samuel Evans (4)

· Serial # 3228405, Battery C, 338th Field Artillery Regiment, 163rd Field Artillery Brigade, attached to the 88th Division. (NARA Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General's Record Group 92). · The 338th Field Artillery was organized in September 1917 and included men drafted from North Dakota, Minnesota, Illinois, Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri. They trained at Camp Dodge. On August 12, 1918 they left for Camp Mills, Long Island, the sailed from Hoboken on the Traz-oz-Montes, an old German boat with a Portuguese crew. They spent 23 days on the water, and weathered an unsuccessful submarine attack off the Irish coast. ("Memoirs of the 338") · The 338th Field Artillery landed at Brest, France on August 11 and arrived at LeHavre (Seine-Inferieure) on September 4, 1918 and proceeded to an area near Le Souge, near Bordeaux (Gironde) where it remained in training until the Armistice. The regiment is entiteld to credit for service in France from September 4, 1918, to November 11, 1918. (NARA Records of the Adjutant General's Office, Record Group 407). · Samuel died in Base Hospital No. 6 of cerebro spinal meningitis (NARA Records of the Adjutant General's Office, Record Group 407)., one of the 30% of American soldiers in WWI who died of an infectious disease not related to combat ("The Last Days of Innocence: America at War 1917-1918"). · Private 338th F.A., buried American Cemetery in Talence Girard France. Re-buried in 1921 in the Suresnes American Cemetery #34, grave 7, row 1, block A, Suresnes, Seine, France (a suburb of Paris). (NARA Records of the Adjutant General's Office, Record Group 407).

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