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Arthur Ozro Sherman

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Arthur Ozro Sherman

Birth
Visalia, Tulare County, California, USA
Death
30 Oct 1918 (aged 22)
France
Burial
Lindsay, Tulare County, California, USA Add to Map
Plot
Block 1, Lot 33, Grave 6
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Orland California Register, 27 Nov 1918
Arthur O. Sherman The First Orland Boy To Make Supreme sacrifice On The Battlefield

"Another gold star takes the place of blue on Orland's Service Flag. This time the gold star represents the supreme sacrifice of an Orland boy in actual action against the Hun. Word was received by Mrs. C. I. Long that her brother, Arthur O. Sherman, well known Orland boy, had made the supreme sacrifice somewhere in France.

Sherman was well known to Orland young people having made his home here for a number of years. His parents lived in the Tulare country {sic} and they received the first word of the death of their son, and in turn notified Mrs. Long.

Young Sherman died of his wounds somewhere in France on October 30, just a little over a week before the last shell was fired against Kaiserism. No details of his death was obtainable but it is assumed that he met death in the advance of the Americans in the glorious battle of Sedan. Sherman was a member of a machine gun company and must have been in the middle of the thickest of that fighting.

Arthur was 22 years old when he made the supreme sacrifice. He was a hard worker which can be attested by the number of farmers and ranchers for whom he worked during his years in the land of Orland.

He entered the service only last July with one of the later drafts and was sent overseas after a very short period of training. He was a ardent and enthusiastic of the Modern Woodmen of America and had among this lodge a host of close friends. He is the first Orland boy to die of wounds received on the field of battle. Three other gold stars adorn our Service flag, all for boys who died in France of disease."
Orland California Register, 27 Nov 1918
Arthur O. Sherman The First Orland Boy To Make Supreme sacrifice On The Battlefield

"Another gold star takes the place of blue on Orland's Service Flag. This time the gold star represents the supreme sacrifice of an Orland boy in actual action against the Hun. Word was received by Mrs. C. I. Long that her brother, Arthur O. Sherman, well known Orland boy, had made the supreme sacrifice somewhere in France.

Sherman was well known to Orland young people having made his home here for a number of years. His parents lived in the Tulare country {sic} and they received the first word of the death of their son, and in turn notified Mrs. Long.

Young Sherman died of his wounds somewhere in France on October 30, just a little over a week before the last shell was fired against Kaiserism. No details of his death was obtainable but it is assumed that he met death in the advance of the Americans in the glorious battle of Sedan. Sherman was a member of a machine gun company and must have been in the middle of the thickest of that fighting.

Arthur was 22 years old when he made the supreme sacrifice. He was a hard worker which can be attested by the number of farmers and ranchers for whom he worked during his years in the land of Orland.

He entered the service only last July with one of the later drafts and was sent overseas after a very short period of training. He was a ardent and enthusiastic of the Modern Woodmen of America and had among this lodge a host of close friends. He is the first Orland boy to die of wounds received on the field of battle. Three other gold stars adorn our Service flag, all for boys who died in France of disease."

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California
PVT 341 M.G. Batt'n
89 Div.

Gravesite Details

Originally interred at Meuse-Argone American Cemetery and Memorial, Tonagne-sous-Montfaucon, Department de la Meuse, Lorraine, France. He was removed and reinterred here on 18 Sep 1921.

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