Robert Roy Pearce
1917
Columbia, SC
Parents: Christopher Columbus and Missouri Butler Pearce
Army, Sergeant
Company G, 105th American Trains, 30th Infantry Division
Aug 17, 1896
Oct 6, 1918
Died of pneumonia in France
Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery; Plot E, Row 13, Grave 38; Memorial marker in Elmwood Gardens, Columbia, SC
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WWI – 30th Infantry Division
The division was originally activated as the 9th Division (drawing units from NC, SC, and TN) under a 1917 force plan, but changed designation after the outbreak of World War I. It was formally activated under its new title in October 1917, as a National Guard Division from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee. Its organization included the 117th, 118th, 119th, 120th Infantry Regiments, the 113th, 114th, 115th Artillery Battalions, the 113th, 114th, 115th Machine Gun Companies, and the 105th Engineers Battalion. The major operations it took part in were the Ypres-Lys, and the Somme offensive. Its total casualties were 8,415. Its KIAs were 1,237, and WIAs 7,178.
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