John 'Jack' Pierce Wright

"In four days (Sept 26-29) the [91st] Division had lost 8 field and 125 company officer and 3,000 men." In an area 3.5 miles southwest of Gesnes-en-Argonne, France.

page 36 The Story of the 91st Division Google Books

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From Wikipedia:

American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)

91st Division fought in the

Meuse-Argonne Offensive

World War I memorials and cemeteries in the Argonne - The Meuse-Argonne Offensive

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Full Military Honors For Utah War Hero

Funeral services for Sergeant Jack P. Wright, who was killed in action in the Meuse-Argonne offensive September 29, 1918, will be held at the Farmers' Ward chapel at 12:45 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Full military honors will be paid with the Veterans of Foreign Wars in charge. The body is at the Joseph William Taylor undertaking establishment.

Sergeant Wright was born at Leeds, Utah, June 15, 1893. He enlisted in the army at Salt Lake September 19, 1917, and received his military training at Camp Lewis [Pierce County, Washington]. He went overseas June 25, 1918. A member of the 362nd Infantry.

His survivors include his parents. H. P. Wright and Mrs. Katie N. Wright, both of California; his widow, Mrs. Ollie Wright of Salt Lake, and three-year{month*}-old daughter, Jacqueline Wright of Salt Lake; four brothers living in Salt Lake. Phil, Wallace, Earl and Richard H., and one brother in California, Alton; two sisters, living in California, Catherine and Althea May Wright.

--from Salt Lake City newspaper clipping

*Census has daughter born in 1919 or 1918.

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The "Utah, Veterans with Federal Service buried in Utah" records his death as 27 Sept 1918.

Jack wrote on his "United States World War 1 Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918" that he was a wholesale drug clerk and married.

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Wife: Ollie Wright [Olga Peterson Shipley]

Daughter: Jacqueline Wright [Tretheway]

Siblings: Phil, Wallace, Earl, Richard H., Alton, Catherine, and Althea May

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a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meuse-Argonne_Offensive" target="_blank"American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) 91st Division/a

fought in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive

a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_I_memorials_and_cemeteries_in_the_Argonne#The_Meuse-Argonne_Offensive" target="_blank"The Meuse-Argonne Offensive/a

page 156 The story of the 91st Division (Google Books)

https://books.google.com/books?id=3tIMAAAAYAAJ&dq=Company%20C%20of%20the%20182nd%20Infantry&pg=PA36#v=onepage&q&f=true

page 156 Those who have fallen KIA, DoW

https://books.google.com/books?id=3tIMAAAAYAAJ&dq=Company%20C%20of%20the%20182nd%20Infantry&pg=PA156#v=onepage&q&f=true

http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/cbtchron/cbtchron.html

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Note: Sergeant Alvin York was awarded the Medal of Honor for bravery 10 days later in the "Meuse-Argonne Offensive".