Sergt. Boyd F. Mulligan died of wounds received in action in Fnce.. Known among his friends as "Doc" Mulligan, had finished his apprenticeship in the Santa Fe blacksmith shop. In May 1917 he enlisted at St. Louis and became a member of Company D, Second Engineers.
Mulligan sailed In September for France. His promotion to the office of corporal and then to sergeant came in the last year. He Is survived hy his widowed mother, Sarah Mulligan; two sisters. Mrs. Charles Cole and Miss Sarah Mulligan, and a brother, James Mulligan, all of Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. July 08, 1918, Pg 2.
Contributor: Timeless (49197722)
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Those that could not be bathed at Bezu-le-Guery were put into pyjamas or suits of under clothing and sent at once to Luzancy where good facilities existed. Field Hospital Sixteen for gassed cases was in a large chateau at Luzancy.
Field Hospital Fifteen -also at Luzancy- was likely for those who were sick.
Luzancy already had a cemetery for the community. During the battle at Belleau Wood an American field cemetery #257 was established there as well. Sgt. Mulligan was listed as killed in action. He was probably severely gassed at the Wood and didn't survive long after arrival at Luzancy.
Contributor: MGR (46905687).
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Silver Star Citation, Belleau Wood; Purple Heart; World War I Victory Medal
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Sgt, Regular Army, D Co., 2nd Engineers, 2nd Division. Enlisted May 1917 at St Louis, MO.
Honor Roll Casualty List Jul 8, 1918.
Born 19 Jul 1891 in NE. Son of Sarah and (the late) William J. MULLIGAN, Topeka, KS
KIA 14 June 1918 during the Battle of Belleau Woods.
On June 11th, following the concerted attack by the 5th Marines through the wood, two companies of the 2nd Engineers were sent forward to help press and exploit the advance. When the actual position of the 5th Marines was discovered to be nearer the center, rather than the northern edge of the woods, Company 'D' took position, helping to dig new trench lines and to man these lines alongside the 5th. Company 'F' helped reinforce the trench positions along the western edge of Belleau Woods.
Intense fighting continued through the next few days, including some heavy artillery and severe gas offensives by the Germans. Eventually on the 14th of June, 'D' and 'F' Companies and the 5th Marines were intended to be relieved by the 6th Marines but the 6th had been so badly mauled by constant skirmishes in reaching the trenches, that they formed a reinforcement force rather than a relief unit.
It was sometime on 14 June, during some of the worst shelling, that Sgt. MULLIGAN was killed in action.
Sgt. MULLIGAN was posthumously included in the list of D Company Engineers cited for bravery, during the June 11 - 14 period, and he was recommended for the Silver Star.
Originally buried on the battlefield, Sgt. MULLIGAN was thereafter buried in the American Cemetery at Luzancy, Seine-et-Marne, and later, in the American Cemetery at Belleau before his remains were returned to the US and re-interred in the Mt Auburn Cemetery. There is, unfortunately, no headstone.
Contributor: Dave Murray (47017878)
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Microfilmed cemetery records at the Kansas State Archives:
burial date: Sept. 14, 1921
undertaker: Penwell
name: Boyd F. Mulligan
relative: Sarah Mulligan, mother
interment # 1387
Block 26, family lot
Topeka State Journal, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 1921, page 12
The body of Floyd (sic) S. Mulligan, who died in France, June 14, 1918, arrived in Topeka Tuesday. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon at Penwell's chapel. Burial in Mt. Auburn cemetery.
Topeka Daily Capital, Thursday, Sept. 15, 1921, page 7:
Mulligan -- The funeral of Sgt. Boyd F. Mulligan, who died June 14, 1918, from wounds received in action at Chateau Thierry, France, will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon from Penwell's chapel. Burial will be in Mount Auburn cemetery.
He enlisted in company D, Second Engineers, May 21, 1917, and sailed for France September 10, 1917. He was one of the first Topeka soldiers to be killed overseas.
He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Sarah Mulligan, 615 West Sixth avenue, and three sisters, Mrs. Carl Clifton, 244 Winfield; Mrs. Charles Cole, 319 Polk street; and Miss Sarah Mulligan, 615 West Sixth avenue.
Contributor: Cheryl White (47328595)
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Mulligan sailed In September for France. His promotion to the office of corporal and then to sergeant came in the last year. He Is survived hy his widowed mother, Sarah Mulligan; two sisters. Mrs. Charles Cole and Miss Sarah Mulligan, and a brother, James Mulligan, all of Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. July 08, 1918, Pg 2.
Contributor: Timeless (49197722)
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Those that could not be bathed at Bezu-le-Guery were put into pyjamas or suits of under clothing and sent at once to Luzancy where good facilities existed. Field Hospital Sixteen for gassed cases was in a large chateau at Luzancy.
Field Hospital Fifteen -also at Luzancy- was likely for those who were sick.
Luzancy already had a cemetery for the community. During the battle at Belleau Wood an American field cemetery #257 was established there as well. Sgt. Mulligan was listed as killed in action. He was probably severely gassed at the Wood and didn't survive long after arrival at Luzancy.
Contributor: MGR (46905687).
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Silver Star Citation, Belleau Wood; Purple Heart; World War I Victory Medal
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Sgt, Regular Army, D Co., 2nd Engineers, 2nd Division. Enlisted May 1917 at St Louis, MO.
Honor Roll Casualty List Jul 8, 1918.
Born 19 Jul 1891 in NE. Son of Sarah and (the late) William J. MULLIGAN, Topeka, KS
KIA 14 June 1918 during the Battle of Belleau Woods.
On June 11th, following the concerted attack by the 5th Marines through the wood, two companies of the 2nd Engineers were sent forward to help press and exploit the advance. When the actual position of the 5th Marines was discovered to be nearer the center, rather than the northern edge of the woods, Company 'D' took position, helping to dig new trench lines and to man these lines alongside the 5th. Company 'F' helped reinforce the trench positions along the western edge of Belleau Woods.
Intense fighting continued through the next few days, including some heavy artillery and severe gas offensives by the Germans. Eventually on the 14th of June, 'D' and 'F' Companies and the 5th Marines were intended to be relieved by the 6th Marines but the 6th had been so badly mauled by constant skirmishes in reaching the trenches, that they formed a reinforcement force rather than a relief unit.
It was sometime on 14 June, during some of the worst shelling, that Sgt. MULLIGAN was killed in action.
Sgt. MULLIGAN was posthumously included in the list of D Company Engineers cited for bravery, during the June 11 - 14 period, and he was recommended for the Silver Star.
Originally buried on the battlefield, Sgt. MULLIGAN was thereafter buried in the American Cemetery at Luzancy, Seine-et-Marne, and later, in the American Cemetery at Belleau before his remains were returned to the US and re-interred in the Mt Auburn Cemetery. There is, unfortunately, no headstone.
Contributor: Dave Murray (47017878)
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Microfilmed cemetery records at the Kansas State Archives:
burial date: Sept. 14, 1921
undertaker: Penwell
name: Boyd F. Mulligan
relative: Sarah Mulligan, mother
interment # 1387
Block 26, family lot
Topeka State Journal, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 1921, page 12
The body of Floyd (sic) S. Mulligan, who died in France, June 14, 1918, arrived in Topeka Tuesday. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon at Penwell's chapel. Burial in Mt. Auburn cemetery.
Topeka Daily Capital, Thursday, Sept. 15, 1921, page 7:
Mulligan -- The funeral of Sgt. Boyd F. Mulligan, who died June 14, 1918, from wounds received in action at Chateau Thierry, France, will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon from Penwell's chapel. Burial will be in Mount Auburn cemetery.
He enlisted in company D, Second Engineers, May 21, 1917, and sailed for France September 10, 1917. He was one of the first Topeka soldiers to be killed overseas.
He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Sarah Mulligan, 615 West Sixth avenue, and three sisters, Mrs. Carl Clifton, 244 Winfield; Mrs. Charles Cole, 319 Polk street; and Miss Sarah Mulligan, 615 West Sixth avenue.
Contributor: Cheryl White (47328595)
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Sergt. Boyd F. Mulligan died of wounds received in action in Fnce.. Known among his friends as "Doc" Mulligan, had finished his apprenticeship in the Santa Fe blacksmith shop. In May 1917 he enlisted at St. Louis and became a member of Company D, Second Engineers.
Mulligan sailed In September for France. His promotion to the office of corporal and then to sergeant came in the last year. He Is survived hy his widowed mother, Sarah Mulligan; two sisters. Mrs. Charles Cole and Miss Sarah Mulligan, and a brother, James Mulligan, all of Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. July 08, 1918, Pg 2.
Contributor: Timeless (49197722)
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Those that could not be bathed at Bezu-le-Guery were put into pyjamas or suits of under clothing and sent at once to Luzancy where good facilities existed. Field Hospital Sixteen for gassed cases was in a large chateau at Luzancy.
Field Hospital Fifteen -also at Luzancy- was likely for those who were sick.
Luzancy already had a cemetery for the community. During the battle at Belleau Wood an American field cemetery #257 was established there as well. Sgt. Mulligan was listed as killed in action. He was probably severely gassed at the Wood and didn't survive long after arrival at Luzancy.
Contributor: MGR (46905687).
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Silver Star Citation, Belleau Wood; Purple Heart; World War I Victory Medal
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Sgt, Regular Army, D Co., 2nd Engineers, 2nd Division. Enlisted May 1917 at St Louis, MO.
Honor Roll Casualty List Jul 8, 1918.
Born 19 Jul 1891 in NE. Son of Sarah and (the late) William J. MULLIGAN, Topeka, KS
KIA 14 June 1918 during the Battle of Belleau Woods.
On June 11th, following the concerted attack by the 5th Marines through the wood, two companies of the 2nd Engineers were sent forward to help press and exploit the advance. When the actual position of the 5th Marines was discovered to be nearer the center, rather than the northern edge of the woods, Company 'D' took position, helping to dig new trench lines and to man these lines alongside the 5th. Company 'F' helped reinforce the trench positions along the western edge of Belleau Woods.
Intense fighting continued through the next few days, including some heavy artillery and severe gas offensives by the Germans. Eventually on the 14th of June, 'D' and 'F' Companies and the 5th Marines were intended to be relieved by the 6th Marines but the 6th had been so badly mauled by constant skirmishes in reaching the trenches, that they formed a reinforcement force rather than a relief unit.
It was sometime on 14 June, during some of the worst shelling, that Sgt. MULLIGAN was killed in action.
Sgt. MULLIGAN was posthumously included in the list of D Company Engineers cited for bravery, during the June 11 - 14 period, and he was recommended for the Silver Star.
Originally buried on the battlefield, Sgt. MULLIGAN was thereafter buried in the American Cemetery at Luzancy, Seine-et-Marne, and later, in the American Cemetery at Belleau before his remains were returned to the US and re-interred in the Mt Auburn Cemetery. There is, unfortunately, no headstone.
Contributor: Dave Murray (47017878)
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Microfilmed cemetery records at the Kansas State Archives:
burial date: Sept. 14, 1921
undertaker: Penwell
name: Boyd F. Mulligan
relative: Sarah Mulligan, mother
interment # 1387
Block 26, family lot
Topeka State Journal, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 1921, page 12
The body of Floyd (sic) S. Mulligan, who died in France, June 14, 1918, arrived in Topeka Tuesday. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon at Penwell's chapel. Burial in Mt. Auburn cemetery.
Topeka Daily Capital, Thursday, Sept. 15, 1921, page 7:
Mulligan -- The funeral of Sgt. Boyd F. Mulligan, who died June 14, 1918, from wounds received in action at Chateau Thierry, France, will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon from Penwell's chapel. Burial will be in Mount Auburn cemetery.
He enlisted in company D, Second Engineers, May 21, 1917, and sailed for France September 10, 1917. He was one of the first Topeka soldiers to be killed overseas.
He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Sarah Mulligan, 615 West Sixth avenue, and three sisters, Mrs. Carl Clifton, 244 Winfield; Mrs. Charles Cole, 319 Polk street; and Miss Sarah Mulligan, 615 West Sixth avenue.
Contributor: Cheryl White (47328595)
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Mulligan sailed In September for France. His promotion to the office of corporal and then to sergeant came in the last year. He Is survived hy his widowed mother, Sarah Mulligan; two sisters. Mrs. Charles Cole and Miss Sarah Mulligan, and a brother, James Mulligan, all of Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. July 08, 1918, Pg 2.
Contributor: Timeless (49197722)
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Those that could not be bathed at Bezu-le-Guery were put into pyjamas or suits of under clothing and sent at once to Luzancy where good facilities existed. Field Hospital Sixteen for gassed cases was in a large chateau at Luzancy.
Field Hospital Fifteen -also at Luzancy- was likely for those who were sick.
Luzancy already had a cemetery for the community. During the battle at Belleau Wood an American field cemetery #257 was established there as well. Sgt. Mulligan was listed as killed in action. He was probably severely gassed at the Wood and didn't survive long after arrival at Luzancy.
Contributor: MGR (46905687).
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Silver Star Citation, Belleau Wood; Purple Heart; World War I Victory Medal
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Sgt, Regular Army, D Co., 2nd Engineers, 2nd Division. Enlisted May 1917 at St Louis, MO.
Honor Roll Casualty List Jul 8, 1918.
Born 19 Jul 1891 in NE. Son of Sarah and (the late) William J. MULLIGAN, Topeka, KS
KIA 14 June 1918 during the Battle of Belleau Woods.
On June 11th, following the concerted attack by the 5th Marines through the wood, two companies of the 2nd Engineers were sent forward to help press and exploit the advance. When the actual position of the 5th Marines was discovered to be nearer the center, rather than the northern edge of the woods, Company 'D' took position, helping to dig new trench lines and to man these lines alongside the 5th. Company 'F' helped reinforce the trench positions along the western edge of Belleau Woods.
Intense fighting continued through the next few days, including some heavy artillery and severe gas offensives by the Germans. Eventually on the 14th of June, 'D' and 'F' Companies and the 5th Marines were intended to be relieved by the 6th Marines but the 6th had been so badly mauled by constant skirmishes in reaching the trenches, that they formed a reinforcement force rather than a relief unit.
It was sometime on 14 June, during some of the worst shelling, that Sgt. MULLIGAN was killed in action.
Sgt. MULLIGAN was posthumously included in the list of D Company Engineers cited for bravery, during the June 11 - 14 period, and he was recommended for the Silver Star.
Originally buried on the battlefield, Sgt. MULLIGAN was thereafter buried in the American Cemetery at Luzancy, Seine-et-Marne, and later, in the American Cemetery at Belleau before his remains were returned to the US and re-interred in the Mt Auburn Cemetery. There is, unfortunately, no headstone.
Contributor: Dave Murray (47017878)
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Microfilmed cemetery records at the Kansas State Archives:
burial date: Sept. 14, 1921
undertaker: Penwell
name: Boyd F. Mulligan
relative: Sarah Mulligan, mother
interment # 1387
Block 26, family lot
Topeka State Journal, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 1921, page 12
The body of Floyd (sic) S. Mulligan, who died in France, June 14, 1918, arrived in Topeka Tuesday. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon at Penwell's chapel. Burial in Mt. Auburn cemetery.
Topeka Daily Capital, Thursday, Sept. 15, 1921, page 7:
Mulligan -- The funeral of Sgt. Boyd F. Mulligan, who died June 14, 1918, from wounds received in action at Chateau Thierry, France, will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon from Penwell's chapel. Burial will be in Mount Auburn cemetery.
He enlisted in company D, Second Engineers, May 21, 1917, and sailed for France September 10, 1917. He was one of the first Topeka soldiers to be killed overseas.
He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Sarah Mulligan, 615 West Sixth avenue, and three sisters, Mrs. Carl Clifton, 244 Winfield; Mrs. Charles Cole, 319 Polk street; and Miss Sarah Mulligan, 615 West Sixth avenue.
Contributor: Cheryl White (47328595)
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