Soldiers of the Great War, 1920

Illinois World War I Honor Roll

834 people from Illinois are pictured in Soldiers of the Great War, a memorial book published in 1920. The book lists 716 of them as having died in the war, and 118 as wounded in action. Here they are by hometown, each with the caption the book printed under the photograph. A few come from the book's Supplement, where the caption also names the state.

352 killed in action221 died of disease126 died of wounds17 died of accident118 wounded in action

Abingdon2

Albers1

Albion1

Alexander1

Algonquin1

Alhambra1

Allendale1

Alma2

Altamont1

Alton2

Amboy1

Anna2

Annawan1

Apple River1

Arcola1

Armstrong1

Arthur1

Ashley1

Ashmore1

Ashton1

Assumption1

Astona1

Astoria1

Athens1

Atkinson1

Atwood1

Aurora7

Ava1

Aviston2

Avon1

Barrington1

Barry4

Batavia1

Bath1

Beason1

Beaverville1

Beckemeyer1

Beecher City1

Belle Rive1

Belleville5

Bellewood1

Belvidere3

Benld1

Benton1

Berlin1

Bethany2

Blandinsville1

Blue Island1

Bluford3

Bone Gap3

Braceville2

Brereton1

Bridgeport1

Brocton1

Brookport1

Broughton1

Brouning1

Brownstown2

Buda1

Bunker Hill1

Burnside1

Cairo2

Calhoun1

Camargo1

Cantrall1

Capron2

Carmi1

Carrollton1

Carterville1

Carthage1

Casey2

Casner1

Castleton1

Cedar Point1

Centralia3

Champaign1

Chapin1

Chatsworth1

Chcago1

Chenoa1

Cherry1

Chester1

Chesterfield1

Chicago147

Chicago Hts1

Chrisman3

Christopher1

Cicero2

Cisne1

Cissna Park2

Clifford1

Clinton1

Coal City5

Colchester1

Coleta1

Collinsville1

Cornell2

Cornland2

Cowden1

Creal Springs1

Crete1

Crystal Lake1

Cuba2

Dahinda1

Dakota3

Danvers1

Danville4

De Kalb1

Decatur4

Deer Creek1

Deer Grove1

DeKalb1

Dieterich1

Dongola1

Dorrisville1

Downers Grove1

Du Bois1

Dundee1

Dunlap1

Duquoin2

Dwight2

E. Moline1

E. St. Louis4

East Moline1

East Peoria1

East St. Louis3

Easton1

Edinburg1

Edwardsville2

Effingham1

Eldorado5

Elgin2

Elizabeth2

Elizabethtown1

Elkhart1

Elmhurst2

Elpaso1

Emington1

Equality2

Erie1

Eureka2

Evanston4

Fairbury2

Flat Rock1

Flora1

Forest Park1

Forreston1

Frankfort1

Frederick1

Freeport9

Fults1

Galena2

Galesburg4

Gardner1

Genesco1

Geneseo3

Genoa3

Georgetown1

Gibson City1

Gillespie1

Girard2

Gladstone2

Godfrey1

Golconda1

Good Hope1

Goreville1

Grafton1

Grand Chain1

Grand Tower1

Greenfield1

Greenville1

Hainesville1

Hamilton2

Hanover1

Harrisburg3

Hartsburg1

Harvard2

Harvey1

Hebron1

Hegewisch1

Hennepin1

Henry1

Herrin2

Heyworth2

Highland2

Highwood1

Hillsdale2

Hillside2

Hillview1

Hoopeston1

Hooppole1

Huey1

Humbolt1

Illinois City2

Iola1

Irwin1

Iuka1

Jacksonville4

Jerseyville1

Jewett1

Joliet11

Kane1

Kankakee1

Kansas1

Keithsburg1

Kempton2

Kewanee4

Kincaid1

Kingston1

Kirkland1

Knoxville1

La Grange2

La Prairie1

La Salle6

Lacon1

Ladd1

Lake Bluff1

Lake Forest2

Lamoille2

Lansing1

Le Roy1

Leafriver1

Leland1

Lemont3

Lena2

Lewiston1

Lexington1

Lima1

Lincoln3

Lisbon1

Livingston1

Lockport3

Lombard3

Long Point1

Lorrington1

Louisville1

Lynn Center1

Macomb4

Macon2

Madison2

Makanda1

Malta1

Manfield1

Manito1

Mansfield1

Marengo2

Marion1

Marissa3

Marseilles1

Marshall1

Mascoutah2

Matherville1

Mattoon2

McLean1

McLeansboro3

Meacham1

Media1

Medora3

Melrose Pk.1

Melvin1

Metropolis1

Milan1

Milford1

Mill Shoals1

Minier1

Minonk1

Minooka2

Minouk1

Moline5

Momence2

Monmouth4

Montrose1

Morrison5

Morrisonville1

Mount Morris1

Mt. Carmel2

Mt. Morris2

Mt. Pulaski1

Mt. Sterling1

Mt. Vernon2

Mulkeytown1

Murphysboro2

Murrayville3

Naperville1

Nashville2

Nebo1

Neoga1

New Athens2

New Baden1

New Boston1

New Burnside1

New Haven1

New Holland1

New Memphis1

Newark1

Newton3

Niles Center1

Nokomis2

Normal1

Norris City2

Oak Park6

Oblong1

Oconee1

Odin1

O'Fallon1

Oglesby1

Okawville1

Oliver2

Olmsted1

Onarga1

Opdyke1

Oregon1

Orion1

Ottawa1

Ottowa1

Palatine3

Pana3

Paris2

Pekin2

Penfield1

Peoria6

Percy2

Pesotum1

Petersburg2

Pittsfield1

Plano2

Pontiac5

Port Byron1

Poulterville1

Prairie Du Rocher1

Prairie Durocher1

Preemption1

Princeton2

Quincy3

Rankin1

Ray1

Raymond1

Red Bud2

Rend1

Reynolds1

Ridgefarm1

Ringwood1

Roanoke2

Robinson4

Rochelle2

Rock Falls1

Rock Island3

Rockford10

Roodhouse1

Rosiclare1

Royalton1

Rutland1

Saint Peter1

Sandoval1

Savanna2

Seneca1

Sesser2

Shabbona1

Sidell1

Sigel1

Sorento2

South Elgin1

South Holland1

Sparta2

Spring Valley2

Springfield3

St. Anne1

St. Marie1

Stanford1

Steeleville2

Steger2

Sterling1

Stillman Valley1

Stonington1

Streator4

Sumner3

Sycamore3

Taulin1

Taylorville2

Teutopolis2

Thebes1

Thompsonville2

Toledo3

Toluca2

Torino1

Toulon3

Tremont1

Trenton2

Troy1

Tunnel Hill1

Ullin1

Union1

Urbana2

Valmeyer1

Vandalia2

Venedy1

Venice1

Versailles1

Victoria1

Villa Grove2

Viola2

Virden1

W. Chicago1

Wadsworth1

Waggoner1

Walnut2

Warren2

Warsaw1

Washburn1

Waterloo2

Watseka2

Waukegan2

Wayne City1

Wendelin1

Wenona1

West Frankfort2

West Liberty1

Westervelt1

Westfield2

Westville2

Williamsville1

Willow Springs1

Winchester2

Windsor1

Winslow2

Witt1

Woodlawn1

Woodstock1

Xenia3

Youngstown1

Reading the captions

K.A.
Killed in Action
D.D.
Died of Disease
D.W.
Died of Wounds
D.A.
Died of Accident
W.A.
Wounded in Action

Those five codes are the book's own legend, printed at the front of each volume. Ranks are printed short too: PVT. for private, CPL. or CORP. for corporal, SGT. for sergeant, LT. for lieutenant, CAPT. for captain, MAJ. for major, WAGR. for wagoner, MECH. for mechanic, BUGL. for bugler and MUSC. for musician. A few captions carry other titles; we show every one exactly as the book printed it.

How we made this list: the names, hometowns and codes were read from the scanned captions by machine, then the doubtful ones were checked by eye against the page. Each portrait shows the caption as the book printed it, so if our typed name and the picture ever disagree, trust the picture. Spellings are the book's own, even where a town or name looks misspelled.
The 44 book pages these portraits come from

Volume 1, Illinois section, pages: 231 (scan), 232 (scan), 233 (scan), 234 (scan), 235 (scan), 236 (scan), 237 (scan), 238 (scan), 239 (scan), 240 (scan), 241 (scan), 242 (scan), 243 (scan), 244 (scan), 245 (scan), 246 (scan), 247 (scan), 248 (scan), 249 (scan), 250 (scan), 251 (scan), 252 (scan), 253 (scan), 254 (scan), 255 (scan), 256 (scan), 257 (scan), 258 (scan), 259 (scan), 260 (scan), 261 (scan), 262 (scan), 263 (scan), 264 (scan), 265 (scan), 266 (scan), 267 (scan), 268 (scan), 269 (scan), 270 (scan), 271 (scan).

From the Supplement at the end of volume 3, pages: 474 (scan), 475 (scan), 487 (scan).

Each page number opens our copy of the whole page; scan opens the original at the Internet Archive.

Source

Soldiers of the Great War, compiled by W. M. Haulsee, F. G. Howe and A. C. Doyle, published in three volumes by the Soldiers Record Publishing Association, Washington, D.C., copyright 1920. It was published in the United States before 1931, so it is in the public domain. The scans are from the Internet Archive; the page images here are our own copies of those scans.

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