Paymaster John Edmund Colthurst

Jan 18, 2019 | Navy

John Edmund Colthurst was born in Chicago November 29, 1871 in the South Loop, just a few blocks away from where the Great Fire had passed a month prior. He joined the Navy at Mare Island in California in 1893 and served as a yeoman on various ships in Admiral George...

LTC Stanley Lane

Jan 4, 2019 | Army

In 1917, Polish immigrant Stanley Lane enlisted in the Army on his 16th birthday. When his age was discovered he was offered a discharge, but he refused. His unit was shipped overseas but Lane was not permitted to go because of then-existing regulations restricting...

Brig Gen Harold Huston George

Dec 6, 2018 | Air Force, Army

World War I fighter ace, for whom George Air Force Base, Victorville, Calif., is named. He was born in 1892 in Lockport, N.Y., and was killed in action April 29, 1942 near Darwin, Australia. Harold George graduated from high school at Niagara Falls, N.Y., and enlisted...

CPL Frank Buckles

Nov 11, 2018 | Army

Washington (CNN) — Frank Buckles, the last living U.S. World War I veteran, has died, a spokesman for his family said Sunday. He was 110. Lawmakers Monday began to move ahead with proposed resolutions that would allow his casket to be displayed at the Capitol...

CPL Quiren M. Groessl

Oct 3, 2018 | Army

Quiren M. Groessl, a German-American from Algoma, Wisconsin, described the early morning of May 28, 1918. Groessl had lied about his age to enlist in the U.S. Army, then served as a corporal in the 5th Wisconsin Regiment at the Western Front after the United States...