Soldiers of the Great War, 1920

Nebraska World War I Honor Roll

257 people from Nebraska are pictured in Soldiers of the Great War, a memorial book published in 1920. The book lists 183 of them as having died in the war, and 74 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.

83 killed in action55 died of disease40 died of wounds5 died of accident74 wounded in action

Ainsworth1

Albion1

Alliance1

Amherst1

Anselmo1

Arnold2

Arthur1

Ashland1

Ashton1

Aurora4

Bancroft1

Barneston1

Beatrice2

Beaver City1

Belden1

Bellevue1

Belvidere2

Bertrand1

Beverly1

Big Spring1

Blair1

Bloomfield1

Bloomington6

Boone1

Brainard1

Brewster1

Bruning1

Brunswick4

Burchard1

Burton1

Bushnell1

Butte1

Callaway1

Campbell1

Carroll1

Cascade1

Cedar Bluffs2

Cedar Rapids1

Chalco1

Columbus3

Concord2

Cortland1

Cowles1

Cozad1

Crab Orchard1

Crofton1

David City1

Daykin1

De Witt1

Decatur1

Dorchester1

Dorsey1

Du Bois1

Dunbar1

Elba1

Ellsworth1

Ericson1

Ewing2

Fairburg1

Fairfield1

Fairmont1

Falls City2

Farnam1

Fremont5

Fullerton1

Geneva1

Gering1

Giltner1

Gothamburg1

Gothenburg2

Grand Island1

Grant1

Greenwood1

Guide Rock1

Gurley2

Hardy1

Harrison1

Hartington3

Harvard1

Hastings5

Havelock1

Heartwell1

Hebron1

Herman1

Hershey2

Hildreth1

Holbrook1

Hooper1

Howells1

Hubbard1

Hull City1

Humboldt2

Inavale1

Julian1

Kenesaw1

Kennard1

Kimball1

Lake1

Laurence1

Leigh1

Lewellen1

Lexington1

Lincoln3

Linwood1

Long Pine2

Louisville1

Lynch1

Lyons1

Marsland1

Mason City1

Maxwell1

McCook2

Millard1

Minatare1

Minden1

Monroe1

Moorefield1

Morse Bluff1

Mullen1

Naper1

Naponee1

Nelson3

Newman Grove3

Nibs1

North Loup1

Octavia1

Odell1

Ohiowa1

Omaha11

O'Neill1

Osceola1

Osmond1

Palisade1

Palmer1

Panama1

Pawnee City1

Paxton2

Petersburg1

Plattsmouth1

Plymouth1

Prague1

Preston1

Primrose1

Prosser1

Ravenna1

Red Cloud2

Richland1

Riverton2

Rockville1

Roseland1

Round Valley1

Rushville1

S. Side Omaha1

S. Sioux City1

Sargent1

Schuyler1

Scotts Bluff2

Seneca1

Seward1

South Omaha3

Springfield2

St. Edward1

St. Edwards2

St. Paul1

Stanton1

Stapleton1

Steinaver1

Sterling1

Stockville1

Strang1

Stuart1

Sweetwater1

Taylor1

Tekamah1

Thurston1

Tilden1

Trenton1

Tryon1

Ulysses1

Upland1

Valentine1

Verdigre1

Virginia1

Waco1

Wakefield1

Wallace1

Wauneta2

Wausa1

Wayne1

Wellfleet1

Western1

White1

Wilcox1

Winside1

Wisner1

Yutan1

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 14 book pages these portraits come from

Volume 2, Nebraska section, pages: 201 (scan), 202 (scan), 203 (scan), 204 (scan), 205 (scan), 206 (scan), 207 (scan), 208 (scan), 209 (scan), 210 (scan), 211 (scan), 212 (scan), 213 (scan).

From the Supplement at the end of volume 3, pages: 489 (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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