Jacob Yeomans was born in Ridgewood and lived at 141 West Glen Ave. He joined West Side Presbyterian Church October 10, 1915 and initially enlisted in the service at Sea Girt June 26, 1916 and was among the first Ridgewood men mustered into the service on March 25, 1917. On September 6, 1917 he went to Camp McClellan in Anniston, Ala. before being transferred from home camps to the American Expeditionary Forces with Company C, 114th Infantry, 29th Division. The 29th was known as the "Blue and Gray" because it was formed from militia companies that had fought in the Civil War, putting sons of the Union and the Confederacy side by side. Its badge was the Korean symbol of good luck, a circle bisected by two half circles. One half of the circle was blue and the other gray.
They arrived in France on June 27, 1918 and assembled in St. Nazaire on the Bay of Biscay before moving on to the final training areas near Poitiers and Prauthoy. They moved to a "quiet area" in Alsace near Belfort in late July and were under French supervision until they moved to the Verdun area in late September. The 29th fought in the center sector of Haute Alsace and Grand Montagne, north of Verdun.
The 57th entered the offensive on October 9 as the only American division serving on the east bank of the Meuse River. Its initial objective was to cover the flanks of the main American effort. Using very sophisticated infiltration tactics rather than a full frontal assault, the division engaged in heavy fighting around such key terrain features as Malbrouck Hill, the Molleville Farm, the Grand Montagne and Etrayes Woods. Under the code name "Mocking Bird" the division advanced seven kilometers in three weeks, fighting elements of six enemy divisions. From October 12 to 25 Yeomans fought at Bois d'Ormont where he was wounded, dying of his wounds October 27, 1918. The division was relieved in the evening of October 29.
He was awarded the Purple Heart, World War I Victory Medal with Defensive Sector and the World War I Victory Button (Silver). His body was repatriated in 1921 and buried under the name Albert Yeomans in Lot 176 in Paramus Plains Cemetery in Ridgewood at the intersection of Ridgewood Avenue and South Pleasant Avenue. When the cemetery was removed in the late 1940s for the construction of the Sommerville School, his body was transferred to George Washington Memorial Park in Paramus and buried with many others in unmarked graves. His is Block J, Lot 39, Grave 4, Section A. As such, he is the only WWI casualty buried in George Washington Memorial Park. At death he was 20 years old.
From book "At Death He was 25 Years Old" By Christopher C. Stout (F.A.G. contributor #48289027)
They arrived in France on June 27, 1918 and assembled in St. Nazaire on the Bay of Biscay before moving on to the final training areas near Poitiers and Prauthoy. They moved to a "quiet area" in Alsace near Belfort in late July and were under French supervision until they moved to the Verdun area in late September. The 29th fought in the center sector of Haute Alsace and Grand Montagne, north of Verdun.
The 57th entered the offensive on October 9 as the only American division serving on the east bank of the Meuse River. Its initial objective was to cover the flanks of the main American effort. Using very sophisticated infiltration tactics rather than a full frontal assault, the division engaged in heavy fighting around such key terrain features as Malbrouck Hill, the Molleville Farm, the Grand Montagne and Etrayes Woods. Under the code name "Mocking Bird" the division advanced seven kilometers in three weeks, fighting elements of six enemy divisions. From October 12 to 25 Yeomans fought at Bois d'Ormont where he was wounded, dying of his wounds October 27, 1918. The division was relieved in the evening of October 29.
He was awarded the Purple Heart, World War I Victory Medal with Defensive Sector and the World War I Victory Button (Silver). His body was repatriated in 1921 and buried under the name Albert Yeomans in Lot 176 in Paramus Plains Cemetery in Ridgewood at the intersection of Ridgewood Avenue and South Pleasant Avenue. When the cemetery was removed in the late 1940s for the construction of the Sommerville School, his body was transferred to George Washington Memorial Park in Paramus and buried with many others in unmarked graves. His is Block J, Lot 39, Grave 4, Section A. As such, he is the only WWI casualty buried in George Washington Memorial Park. At death he was 20 years old.
From book "At Death He was 25 Years Old" By Christopher C. Stout (F.A.G. contributor #48289027)
Jacob Yeomans was born in Ridgewood and lived at 141 West Glen Ave. He joined West Side Presbyterian Church October 10, 1915 and initially enlisted in the service at Sea Girt June 26, 1916 and was among the first Ridgewood men mustered into the service on March 25, 1917. On September 6, 1917 he went to Camp McClellan in Anniston, Ala. before being transferred from home camps to the American Expeditionary Forces with Company C, 114th Infantry, 29th Division. The 29th was known as the "Blue and Gray" because it was formed from militia companies that had fought in the Civil War, putting sons of the Union and the Confederacy side by side. Its badge was the Korean symbol of good luck, a circle bisected by two half circles. One half of the circle was blue and the other gray.
They arrived in France on June 27, 1918 and assembled in St. Nazaire on the Bay of Biscay before moving on to the final training areas near Poitiers and Prauthoy. They moved to a "quiet area" in Alsace near Belfort in late July and were under French supervision until they moved to the Verdun area in late September. The 29th fought in the center sector of Haute Alsace and Grand Montagne, north of Verdun.
The 57th entered the offensive on October 9 as the only American division serving on the east bank of the Meuse River. Its initial objective was to cover the flanks of the main American effort. Using very sophisticated infiltration tactics rather than a full frontal assault, the division engaged in heavy fighting around such key terrain features as Malbrouck Hill, the Molleville Farm, the Grand Montagne and Etrayes Woods. Under the code name "Mocking Bird" the division advanced seven kilometers in three weeks, fighting elements of six enemy divisions. From October 12 to 25 Yeomans fought at Bois d'Ormont where he was wounded, dying of his wounds October 27, 1918. The division was relieved in the evening of October 29.
He was awarded the Purple Heart, World War I Victory Medal with Defensive Sector and the World War I Victory Button (Silver). His body was repatriated in 1921 and buried under the name Albert Yeomans in Lot 176 in Paramus Plains Cemetery in Ridgewood at the intersection of Ridgewood Avenue and South Pleasant Avenue. When the cemetery was removed in the late 1940s for the construction of the Sommerville School, his body was transferred to George Washington Memorial Park in Paramus and buried with many others in unmarked graves. His is Block J, Lot 39, Grave 4, Section A. As such, he is the only WWI casualty buried in George Washington Memorial Park. At death he was 20 years old.
From book "At Death He was 25 Years Old" By Christopher C. Stout (F.A.G. contributor #48289027)
They arrived in France on June 27, 1918 and assembled in St. Nazaire on the Bay of Biscay before moving on to the final training areas near Poitiers and Prauthoy. They moved to a "quiet area" in Alsace near Belfort in late July and were under French supervision until they moved to the Verdun area in late September. The 29th fought in the center sector of Haute Alsace and Grand Montagne, north of Verdun.
The 57th entered the offensive on October 9 as the only American division serving on the east bank of the Meuse River. Its initial objective was to cover the flanks of the main American effort. Using very sophisticated infiltration tactics rather than a full frontal assault, the division engaged in heavy fighting around such key terrain features as Malbrouck Hill, the Molleville Farm, the Grand Montagne and Etrayes Woods. Under the code name "Mocking Bird" the division advanced seven kilometers in three weeks, fighting elements of six enemy divisions. From October 12 to 25 Yeomans fought at Bois d'Ormont where he was wounded, dying of his wounds October 27, 1918. The division was relieved in the evening of October 29.
He was awarded the Purple Heart, World War I Victory Medal with Defensive Sector and the World War I Victory Button (Silver). His body was repatriated in 1921 and buried under the name Albert Yeomans in Lot 176 in Paramus Plains Cemetery in Ridgewood at the intersection of Ridgewood Avenue and South Pleasant Avenue. When the cemetery was removed in the late 1940s for the construction of the Sommerville School, his body was transferred to George Washington Memorial Park in Paramus and buried with many others in unmarked graves. His is Block J, Lot 39, Grave 4, Section A. As such, he is the only WWI casualty buried in George Washington Memorial Park. At death he was 20 years old.
From book "At Death He was 25 Years Old" By Christopher C. Stout (F.A.G. contributor #48289027)
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