Charles T. Jessop
Private First Class, U.S. Army
110th Engineer Regiment, 35th Divison
Entered the Service from: Kansas
Died: September 29, 1918
Buried at: Plot D Row 21 Grave 29
Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery
Romagne, France
17-YEAR OLD BOY IS KILLED IN BATTLE
Lyndon, Kansas, Nov. 9.--A 17-year old boy's eagerness to fight for his country and avenge the wrongs suffered by Belgium and France has resulted in the supreme sacrifice for Charles Thomas Jessop. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. James A. Jessop, of this town, have received official word that their son has met a hero's death--killed in action--on September 29, in the battle of the Argonne forest. Both Charles and his older brother, Frank, enlisted soon after America entered the war. Young Jessop was said to have been "Kansas' youngest soldier over there."
--The Parsons Daily Sun (Parsons, KS), Nov 10, 1918, p.∼
Killed in action in France.
(Information made available for submission to F. A Grave by The Cameron County Genealogy Project. Tombstone inscriptions of the Newton Protestant Cemetery, Emporium, PA were submitted by Mary Ellen Smith.
His unit was in action in the vicinity of Charpentry when he was killed in action.
Private First Class, U.S. Army
110th Engineer Regiment, 35th Divison
Entered the Service from: Kansas
Died: September 29, 1918
Buried at: Plot D Row 21 Grave 29
Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery
Romagne, France
17-YEAR OLD BOY IS KILLED IN BATTLE
Lyndon, Kansas, Nov. 9.--A 17-year old boy's eagerness to fight for his country and avenge the wrongs suffered by Belgium and France has resulted in the supreme sacrifice for Charles Thomas Jessop. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. James A. Jessop, of this town, have received official word that their son has met a hero's death--killed in action--on September 29, in the battle of the Argonne forest. Both Charles and his older brother, Frank, enlisted soon after America entered the war. Young Jessop was said to have been "Kansas' youngest soldier over there."
--The Parsons Daily Sun (Parsons, KS), Nov 10, 1918, p.∼
Killed in action in France.
(Information made available for submission to F. A Grave by The Cameron County Genealogy Project. Tombstone inscriptions of the Newton Protestant Cemetery, Emporium, PA were submitted by Mary Ellen Smith.
His unit was in action in the vicinity of Charpentry when he was killed in action.
Charles T. Jessop
Private First Class, U.S. Army
110th Engineer Regiment, 35th Divison
Entered the Service from: Kansas
Died: September 29, 1918
Buried at: Plot D Row 21 Grave 29
Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery
Romagne, France
17-YEAR OLD BOY IS KILLED IN BATTLE
Lyndon, Kansas, Nov. 9.--A 17-year old boy's eagerness to fight for his country and avenge the wrongs suffered by Belgium and France has resulted in the supreme sacrifice for Charles Thomas Jessop. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. James A. Jessop, of this town, have received official word that their son has met a hero's death--killed in action--on September 29, in the battle of the Argonne forest. Both Charles and his older brother, Frank, enlisted soon after America entered the war. Young Jessop was said to have been "Kansas' youngest soldier over there."
--The Parsons Daily Sun (Parsons, KS), Nov 10, 1918, p.∼
Killed in action in France.
(Information made available for submission to F. A Grave by The Cameron County Genealogy Project. Tombstone inscriptions of the Newton Protestant Cemetery, Emporium, PA were submitted by Mary Ellen Smith.
His unit was in action in the vicinity of Charpentry when he was killed in action.
Private First Class, U.S. Army
110th Engineer Regiment, 35th Divison
Entered the Service from: Kansas
Died: September 29, 1918
Buried at: Plot D Row 21 Grave 29
Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery
Romagne, France
17-YEAR OLD BOY IS KILLED IN BATTLE
Lyndon, Kansas, Nov. 9.--A 17-year old boy's eagerness to fight for his country and avenge the wrongs suffered by Belgium and France has resulted in the supreme sacrifice for Charles Thomas Jessop. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. James A. Jessop, of this town, have received official word that their son has met a hero's death--killed in action--on September 29, in the battle of the Argonne forest. Both Charles and his older brother, Frank, enlisted soon after America entered the war. Young Jessop was said to have been "Kansas' youngest soldier over there."
--The Parsons Daily Sun (Parsons, KS), Nov 10, 1918, p.∼
Killed in action in France.
(Information made available for submission to F. A Grave by The Cameron County Genealogy Project. Tombstone inscriptions of the Newton Protestant Cemetery, Emporium, PA were submitted by Mary Ellen Smith.
His unit was in action in the vicinity of Charpentry when he was killed in action.
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PV.T. 110 INF. 28 DIV.
KANSAS
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