Soldiers of the Great War, 1920

Kansas World War I Honor Roll

346 people from Kansas are pictured in Soldiers of the Great War, a memorial book published in 1920. The book lists 293 of them as having died in the war, and 53 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.

138 killed in action81 died of disease71 died of wounds3 died of accident53 wounded in action

Abilene2

Achilles1

Ada1

Alden1

Allen1

Almena1

Alta Vista1

Altamont1

Altoona1

Argonia1

Arkansas City2

Arrington1

Asherville1

Ashland1

Assaria1

Atchison2

Athol2

Atwood1

Aurora1

Axtell1

Baxter Springs1

Bellaire1

Belleville3

Beloit3

Belpre1

Bird City1

Bogue1

Bonner Springs1

Bremen1

Bronson1

Brownell1

Burr Oak1

Burton1

Bushong1

Bushton1

Canby1

Canton1

Carbondale2

Cawker City1

Cedar Point1

Cedar Vale2

Cedarvale3

Centralia3

Chanute1

Cheney2

Cimarron1

Coffeyville3

Colby1

Cold Water1

Council Grove1

Courtland1

Crestline1

Cuba1

Cullison1

Cummings1

Delavan1

Denton1

Dwight1

Earlton1

Easton1

Edna1

Edson1

El Dorado1

Elkhart1

Ellinwood1

Ellsworth1

Elwood1

Emporia5

Englevale1

Englewood1

Erie1

Esbon2

Eskridge1

Everest1

Fairview2

Flush1

Fort Scott4

Fowler1

Fredonia1

Fulton2

Gamett1

Gardner2

Garnett2

Gaylord1

Glasco1

Glen Elder1

Goddard1

Goodrich1

Gorham1

Great Bend1

Greeley1

Grenola1

Hammond1

Harlan1

Havensville1

Herndon1

Hiattville1

Hiawatha2

Hoisington1

Holton2

Holtone1

Hooser1

Howard2

Hoxie1

Hugoton1

Hutchinson2

Independence5

Jamestown3

Jetmore2

Jewell2

Jewell City1

Junction City3

Kanopolis1

Kansas City7

Kenneth1

Kensington1

Kiowa1

La Cygne1

Lafontaine1

Lakin1

Larned1

Laurence1

Lawrence1

Leavenworth1

Lebanon1

Lenexa1

Lincoln1

Lincolnville1

Lindsborg1

Linn1

Linwood1

Logan1

Longton1

Loring1

Louisburg1

Ludell1

Lyndon2

Lyons3

Macksville2

Madison2

Manhattan3

Mapleton1

Marysville2

McCracken1

McPherson4

Merriam1

Mildred1

Minneapolis1

Moline1

Montrose1

Moran2

Moundridge1

Mulberry1

Mullinville1

Mulvane2

Muscotah2

Narka1

Nashville2

Nekoma1

Neodesha1

New Cambria2

Newton1

Nickerson1

Norton2

Norwich1

Oakley1

Oberlin1

Olathe1

Onaga4

Oneida1

Osawatomie1

Osborne1

Oswego3

Ottawa2

Ozowkie1

Paola2

Paradise1

Parsons5

Peabody1

Piedmont1

Pittsburg4

Powhattan1

Prairie View1

Pratt1

Preston2

Pretty Prairie1

Protection1

Quinter1

Rantoul1

Republic1

Richland1

Rose1

Rose Hill1

Russell2

Sabetha2

Salina2

Saxman1

Scott City1

Scranton1

Sedan2

Selden1

Seneca3

Shannon2

Sharon1

Sharon Springs1

Shawnee1

Skiddy1

Smith1

Smith Center1

Smolan1

Sparks1

St. George1

St. John2

St. Marys2

Stafford1

Sterling3

Stockton2

Strong City1

Sylvan Grove1

Syracuse1

Talmage1

Tampa1

Tecumseh1

Toganaxie1

Tonganoxie3

Topeka4

Troy1

Valley Center1

Vassar1

Wakefield1

Wamego2

Waverly1

Weir1

Weir City1

Wetawaka1

Whiting1

Wichita4

Wilson1

Winfield2

Winona1

Woodbine2

Yates Center1

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 20 book pages these portraits come from

Volume 1, Kansas section, pages: 351 (scan), 352 (scan), 353 (scan), 354 (scan), 355 (scan), 356 (scan), 357 (scan), 358 (scan), 359 (scan), 360 (scan), 361 (scan), 362 (scan), 363 (scan), 364 (scan), 365 (scan), 366 (scan), 367 (scan).

From the Supplement at the end of volume 3, pages: 477 (scan), 487 (scan), 493 (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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