
Henry Alexander Coleman

1914
Shelton, South Carolina
Army, Private First Class
Company C, 306th Field Signal Battalion, 81st Division, American Expeditionary Forces
Oct 20, 1918
In the early stages of an illness, he was located in a dug out and held the position as switch board manager. Eventually died of pneumonia in an Evacuation Hospital near Baccarat, France
Meuse-Argonne American Military Cemetery, Thiaucort, France; memorial marker at Antioch Cemetery, Fairfield County, SC
NW
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“I have wished so often that I had been given such a happy disposition and the faculty of being optimistic like Hal under the most trying ordeals.”
-Anonymous acquaintance to Coleman near St. Die