Soldiers of the Great War, 1920

Wisconsin World War I Honor Roll

715 people from Wisconsin are pictured in Soldiers of the Great War, a memorial book published in 1920. The book lists 592 of them as having died in the war, and 123 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.

308 killed in action173 died of disease105 died of wounds6 died of accident123 wounded in action

Abbotsford2

Abrams1

Adams2

Afton1

Albany1

Algoma1

Almena1

Amery1

Amherst2

Antigo2

Appleton10

Arcadia1

Argyle2

Arkdale1

Arpin1

Ashland4

Athens3

Auburndale2

Augusta3

Avoca2

Balsam Lake1

Bancroft1

Bangor1

Baraboo2

Barron3

Beaver Dam1

Beldenville1

Belmont1

Beloit6

Benton1

Berlin2

Biramwood1

Birnamwood1

Black Earth2

Black River Falls6

Blackwell1

Blair1

Blanchardville3

Bloomer3

Bloomington1

Boscobel1

Bosholt1

Brilliant1

Bristol1

Bruce1

Brule1

Burnett1

Calvary1

Cambridge1

Camp Douglas2

Casco1

Cashton1

Cazenovia3

Cedar Grove4

Cedarburg1

Centuria2

Chetek2

Chippewa Falls2

Cirvitz1

Clarno1

Clear Lake5

Clinton1

Clintonville3

Colby1

Coleman1

Colfax2

Commonwealth1

Coon Valley2

Crandon1

Cumberland3

Dalton1

Dancy2

De Forest1

De Pere1

Deerbrook1

Deerfield2

Denmark4

Deronda1

Detroit Harbor1

Eau Claire5

Edgar3

Edgerton5

Eleva2

Elk Mound2

Elroy1

Endeavor2

Evansville1

Excelsior1

Fair Water1

Fairchild2

Fall Creek1

Fall River1

Fennimore1

Fifield1

Fond Du Lac5

Footville1

Forest Junction1

Forestville5

Fountain City1

Francis Creek1

Franksville1

Fredonia1

Galesville1

Genoa2

Gillett2

Gilman1

Gleason1

Gledden1

Grand Rapids3

Granton1

Gratoit1

Green Bay6

Greenleaf2

Gresham2

Hamilton1

Hammond2

Hancock1

Hannibal1

Hanover1

Hardford1

Hartford2

Haugen3

Hayward1

Hersey1

Highland3

Hilbert1

Hohtonville1

Holmen1

Horicon1

Hub City1

Hurley1

Independence1

Iron River1

Janesville5

Jefferson3

Johnson Creek1

Juda1

Junction City1

Juneau1

Kankanna1

Kaukauna1

Kawaunee1

Kendall1

Kenosha3

Keshena1

Kewaskum1

Kewaunee2

Kiel1

La Crosse9

La Farge1

La Valle2

Ladysmith1

Lake Beulah1

Lake Mills2

Lancaster2

Larsen2

Lena1

Little Chute1

Lodi4

Loyal1

Luck2

Luxembourg1

Lyndhurst2

Lyndon Station3

Madison8

Malone1

Manatowoc1

Manitowoc2

Maribel2

Marinette8

Marion1

Markesan1

Marshall1

Marshfield9

Maustin1

Mauston4

Mayville2

Medford2

Mellen4

Menasha1

Menomonie11

Merrill3

Middleton2

Milladore1

Milltown1

Milwaukee56

Mindord1

Minocqua1

Minong1

Mondovi1

Monroe2

Montello1

Monticello1

Moquah1

Morrisonville1

Mosinee2

Mt. Horeb1

Mukwonago1

Mukwongo1

Muskego1

Necedah1

Neenah6

Neillsville3

Nenah1

Neopit3

Neshkoro1

New Auburn1

New Butler1

New Diggings1

New Glarus1

New Lisbon1

New London1

New Richmond2

New Rome1

Newald1

No. Freedom1

North Fond Du Lac2

North Hudson1

Northland1

Oastburg1

Oconomowoc5

Oconta1

Oconto2

Oconto Falls2

Odanah2

Odanoh1

Ogema2

Osceola1

Oshkosh8

Osseo4

Owen2

Oxfordville1

Pardeeville1

Park Falls4

Patzu1

Pepin1

Peshtigo1

Phillips3

Pickett1

Pigeon Falls1

Pittsville1

Plainfield1

Pleasant Prairie1

Port Washington1

Portage4

Potosi3

Potter1

Pound1

Prairie Farm2

Princeton2

Pulaski1

Pulcifer1

Racine8

Randall2

Reedsburg5

Rewey1

Rhinelander4

Rice Lake8

Richland Center1

Ridgeway1

Rio1

Ripen1

Ripon2

Rock Elm1

Rockdale1

Rogellille1

Rosholt1

Rozellville1

Sawyer3

Saxon1

Schelerville1

Schofield1

Seymour1

Shawano6

Sheboydan Falls1

Sheboygan5

Sheboygan Falls1

Shell Lake2

Sheridan1

Shicton1

Shiocton1

Shullsburg2

Siren1

So. Milwaukee1

Soldiers Grove2

Soperton1

South Kaukauna3

Sparta3

Spencer3

Spint1

Spring Green1

Spring Valley2

Springbrook1

Stanley3

Stevens Point4

Stitzer1

Stockholm1

Stoughton3

Stratford1

Strongs Prairie1

Sturgeon Bay4

Sturgeonburg1

Superior5

Taylor2

Thorp3

Thorpe1

Tigerton1

Tomah3

Tomahawk2

Troy Center1

Two Rivers3

Union Center1

Unity1

Vesper1

Viola1

Viroqua5

Wabeno1

Walworth1

Warrens1

Warsaw1

Washburn3

Waterloo2

Watertown5

Waukesha1

Waupun1

Wausau6

Wausaukee2

West Bend1

West De Pere4

Westboro1

Westby4

Westfield1

Weyerhauser1

Wheeler3

Whitehall2

Whitewater1

Williamsburg1

Wilton1

Windsor1

Withee1

Wittenberg1

Wonewoc2

Woodvill1

Woodville1

Wyeville1

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 38 book pages these portraits come from

Volume 3, Wisconsin section, pages: 417 (scan), 418 (scan), 419 (scan), 420 (scan), 421 (scan), 422 (scan), 423 (scan), 424 (scan), 425 (scan), 426 (scan), 427 (scan), 428 (scan), 429 (scan), 430 (scan), 431 (scan), 432 (scan), 433 (scan), 434 (scan), 435 (scan), 436 (scan), 437 (scan), 438 (scan), 439 (scan), 440 (scan), 441 (scan), 442 (scan), 443 (scan), 444 (scan), 445 (scan), 446 (scan), 447 (scan), 448 (scan), 449 (scan), 450 (scan), 451 (scan).

From the Supplement at the end of volume 3, pages: 492 (scan), 493 (scan), 494 (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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