Please contribute information about any Cheyenne County person who has served or is serving this country. This site is a meant to honor and thank those who have served us. God Bless Them.

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COGenWeb Archives - LIST of men and women from Cheyenne County who served in World War I

   NEW! Kit Carson High School - 1949 Former Boys in Service

   CHEYENNE COUNTY Soldiers in WWI, 1917-18

From: Roster of Men and Women Who Served in the World War From Colorado 1917-1918, published by the Adjutant General, Harold H. Richardson, Brigadier General, Adjutant General's Department, Colorado National Guard, 1941.
CHEYENNE COUNTY Soldiers in WWI, 1917-18

  

BERGMAN, Eugene Sidney (1919-2000)
WWII Veteran, Army Air Corps, 1942-1945
Internment: Kit Carson Cemetery, Kit Carson, CO

BOGERT, Ed (1933-1999)
US Air Force, CMSGT
Internment: Fairview Cemetery, Cheyenne Wells, CO

BOONE, James Alvin (1934-2000)
Military service 1954-1958
Internment: Martin Cemetery, southwest of Centralia

BURCH, Robert Lee (1932-2000)
Internment: Sharon Springs Cemetery,
Military graveside honors conducted by Sharon Springs VFW

BURNS, Robert J. (1903-2000)
WWII Veteran - Army Air Corp
Internment: Fairview Cemetery, Cheyenne Wells, CO

DAVIS, Ernest "Ernie" Grandville (1928-1999)
Korean War Veteran, U.S. Army
Internment: Kit Carson Cemetery, Kit Carson, CO
Military honors performed by Kit Carson VFW

DURR, Doyle Delmar (1931-2001)
U.S. Navy 1953-1956
Internment: Arapahoe Cemetery, Arapahoe, CO

GEIST, Michael Joseph (1944-2001)
Vietnam Veteran: U.S. Army, 1966-1972, also served in Germany, Japan, and U.S.A.
Internment: Burlington Fairview Cemetery

GILLIHAN, Glenn (1924-1999)
WWII Veteran - U.S. Navy
Internment: Fairview Cemetery, Cheyenne Wells, CO

HALE, William C. (1922-2000)
U.S. Naval Air Corps
Internment: Walsh, CO

HAMMER, Robert D. (1927-1999)
WWII Veteran - U.S. Navy
Internment: Haskell County Cemetery, KS
Military graveside services, Sublette American Legion Post #205

HELM, Raymond August Henry (1921-2001)
WWII Veteran - enlisted US Army on 6 AUG 1942, served until 18 OCT 1945
169th Infantry 43rd Division
Asiatic-Pacific Theatre: Solomon Islands, New Guinea, Philipine Islands, and Japan

Purple Heart Medal - wounds received in action, Philipines
Asiatic-Pacific Theatre Ribbon with 3 bronze battle stars and a bronz arrowhead
Combat Infantry Badge
Philipine Liberation Ribbon with 1 bronze star
Silver Star for heroic conduct
Good Conduct Ribbon

Internment: Fairview Cemetery, Cheyenne Wells, CO
Graveside Masonic services conducted by Cheyenne Wells Lodge #132, followed by graveside military honors by the Tribune VFW Post #7521 and the William A. Kimmel Post #9700.

KELLY, William L. (Bill) (?-1999)
WWII Veteran - U.S. Navy
Internment -

KIMMEL, WILLIAM ( ? - 9 Aug 1942)
WWII, joined US Navy 1936, on the ship USS Quincy, sank in the Pacific in the Battle of Solomon Islands.
KNOTT, Lloyd (1921-1999)
WWII, joined U.S. Army in 1941

KNUDSEN, Robert N. (1892-1964)
WWI, PFC, Military Police Co.
Internment: Araphahoe Cemetery, Arapahoe, CO

MAHLBERG, Carl "Charles" Matthew (1920-1999)
WWII Veteran - enlisted 23 June 1943
U.S. Army Air Corps
Internment: Mount Vernon Memorial Park, Fair Oaks, CA

MAHLBERG, Leo Roy (1914-2002)
WWII Veteran - served 1942-1945
SGT - U.S. Army Signal Corps, India
Internment: Lakeside Cemetery, Canon City, CO

MITCHELL, Ray Charles (1918-2000)
WWII Veteran - served 1941-1945, military policeman,
U.S. Army and U.S. Army Air Corps' Flying Tigers
Internment: Arapahoe Cemetery, Arapahoe, CO

O'BRIEN, Leonard J. (1917-2001)
WWII Veteran: U.S. Army Air Corp, France
Internment: Fort McPherson National Cemetery, Maxwell, NE

OSBORNE, William Clarke (1897-2001)
WWI Veteran - enlisted, U.S. Army 28 May 1918,
WWII - instructor, air base in La Junta,
charter member and past commander, Brewster American Legion Post #305
memberships in VFW IOOF Lodge and the Masonic Lodge, VFW
Internment: Fairview Cemetery, Cheyenne Wells, CO
Military Rites performed by William A. Kimmel VFW Post 9700 of Cheyenne Wells; Joe Will VFW Post 6612 of Hugo, and Kit Carson VFW Post 8411

SMELKER,Gaylord Wesley (1930-1999)
Korean War and Viet Nam War Veteran; Retired U.S. Navy officer
Internment: Lakeside Cemetery, full military honors

SPARKS, Darrell D. (1920-2000)
WWII Veteran - U.S. Army
Internment: Shelton Memorial Park, Shelton, WA

   ROSTER : WORLD WAR II - U.S. ARMY ENLISTMENTS, extracted from NARA's World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946

   Organizations

William Kimmel Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9700, organized in Cheyenne Wells. {Named for William Kimmel of Arapahoe, killed in action, while serving on the USS Quincy, sank in the Pacific in the Battle of Savo - 9 Aug 1942.}

Kit Carson Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8411

American Legion Edwin D. Waltman, Post Unit 126, organized in Cheyenne Wells after WWI. {Named for the first Cheyenne County soldier killed in World War I.}

American Legion Auxiliary, chartered in June 1922.
First Officers:
President, Mrs. Frances BROWN
Vice-President, Mrs.Leslie JULL
Secretary, Amber E. FROELICK
Treasurer, Ethel SHY


Civil War Veterans
from Cheyenne County History, 1979: a Cheyenne Republican article, March 1911.

Willoughby Wells Post No 11
..... organized in Cheyenne Wells, 1911
Officers in 1911:
Commander, J.H. THOMPSON
Senior Vice, M. L. CAULKINS
Junior Vice, B. TERWILLIGER
Adjutant, E.C. WILSON
Chaplain, W. L. DeMUNBRUN

   Links to Military History / Genealogy sites:

• AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSION - http://www.abmc.gov/
  
  
• The American Civil War Homepage - http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/
  
  
• Arlington National Cemetery Information - http://www.arlingtoncemetery.com/contents.htm
  
  
• Colorado Civil War Casualties Index - http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/military/ciwardea.html
  
  
• Colorado Veterans' Graves Registration, 1862-1949- http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/military/graves/
  
  
• Colorado Volunteers During the Civil War - http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/military/trans/index.html
  
  
• Military Veterans' Database for all branches of the U.S. Military, including Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marines, National Guard, Navy and Reserves. Plus information for non-US Military. - http://www.shipmates.com/shipmates/
  
  
• Purple Heart Organization - Combat Wounded Veterans - http://www.purpleheart.org/
  
  
• Shipmate_search - http://www.USMM.org/shipmate_search.html
  
  
• U.S. ARMY CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY - http://www.history.army.mil/
  
  
• ARMY HERITAGE COLLECTION ONLINE - http://www.ahco.army.mil/site/index.jsp
  
  
• US Civil War Center - http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/
  
  
• US Navy Armed Guard WWII Veterans (armedguard) - http://www.armed-guard.com/
  
  
• Welcome To The WWII U.S. Veterans Website - http://ww2.vet.org/
  
  
• World War II Troop Ship Crossings - http://ww2troopships.com/

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