Henry Alexander Coleman

Graduating Class
1914

Hometown
Shelton, South Carolina

Service & Rank
Army, Private First Class

Unit
Company C, 306th Field Signal Battalion, 81st Division, American Expeditionary Forces

Date of Death
Oct 20, 1918

Details of Death
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

Burial Details
Meuse-Argonne American Military Cemetery, Thiaucort, France; memorial marker at Antioch Cemetery, Fairfield County, SC

Barrow Stone Location
NW

Additional Information

“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

Related Images Click to Enlarge

Antioch Methodist Church Cemetery, Fairfield County, S.C. Photo by Richard B. Hodges on May 2, 2010 using a Canon PowerShot G11 camera.

Meuse-Argonne American Military Cemetery