2nd Lieut. Battery A. 7th Field Artillery
First Division A. E. F.
Killed at the Front in France
On Feb. 16 the War Department reported the death of Second Lieutenant Wiley H. Burford, Battery A, 7th Field Artillery, killed " in the line of duty " on Feb. 14 by a bullet in his head. Lieutenant Burford was the son of Robert A. Burford of Ocala, Fla., a Princeton graduate, class of 1916. Immediately after his graduation he went to the Plattsburg camp. That Autumn he enrolled in the Law Department of the University of Florida, but left his year's work unfinished to enter the officers training camp at Fort McPherson, Georgia, when the United States entered the war. Upon being commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Field Artillery he was sent to France about the first of September. He was the first artillery officer reported killed in action. His older brother, Lieutenant Robert A. Burford, Jr., Annapolis, 1907, is serving on the U. S. S. De Kalb.
Inscription
"Greater Love Hath No Man Than This,
That A Man Lay Down His Life For His Friends"
Family Members
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Robert Allen Burford
1856–1938
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Ella Louise Murphree Burford
1862–1945
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Robert Allen Burford
1887–1927
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Mary Elizabeth Burford
1889–1973
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Eloise Adelaide Burford
1892–1893
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Samuel Kemp Burford
1896–1953
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Infant Burford
1899–1899
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Agnes Burford Saunders
1900–1993
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