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Articles: The Rainbow Warriors
Updated - Sunday, 9 June, 2002
Detailed below are the
names of men from Iowa who served during World War One, the so-called
'Rainbow Warriors' of the U.S. 168 Brigade.
A year after the war was
concluded, in 1919, the Reverend Wilfred E. Robb wrote a tribute to the men
of Iowa who served in France, in which he offered biographical sketches of
many of the men involved, along with photographs of each. Virgil
Reiter - who can be contacted at the e-mail address below - has generously
offered to provide those details that are available for each of the men
listed below.
Below are two sample
entries from the book indicative of the material available for the men whose
names are listed directly below the two entries.
Andrew
M Reymer, Private, Headquarters
Company
Died February 17, 1918.
Buried at Neufchateau, Base Hospital No. 66. Son of Mrs. Anna Reymer,
McKeesport, Pa.
While going for the first
time to the front the troops were moved in the usual manner in box cars.
Reymer and a number of others got off the cars and ran up and down to warm
themselves; in attempting to re-board the moving cars he fell under the
wheels and both legs were cut off. He died the next day.
James
Edward Whalen, Private First Class,
Company E
Killed July 26, 1918,
Chateau Thierry in Foret de fere. Grave No. 7-A.
Whalen enlisted in the
first Iowa guard and was transferred to Company E in August 1917.
He served throughout the
Lorraine campaign and the battle of Champagne. He was a good soldier
and well liked by all of his comrades.
Relative's address, Mrs.
Mary C. Whalen, 612 S.E. 4th St., Des Moines, Iowa.
Men Who Served with 168
Brigade, Iowa,
the Rainbow Warriors
|
Ernest |
Bennett |
|
John |
Loper |
|
James |
Lincoln |
|
Winfred |
Robb |
|
Mathew |
Tinley |
|
Charles |
Pritchard |
|
Clyde |
Barber |
|
Harry |
Wooten |
|
Thomas |
Arklese |
|
William |
Johnson |
|
James |
Mattingly |
|
Earl |
Coons |
|
Ralph |
Miller |
|
George |
Truax |
|
St.
Clair |
Willcox |
|
Herbert |
Schroeder |
|
Herman |
Roose |
|
Norbert |
Wilson |
|
Scott |
McCormick |
|
John |
Wasmer |
|
George |
McSorley |
|
Adolph |
Fortsch |
|
George |
Bullard |
|
Andrew |
Reymer |
|
Edward |
Worth |
|
Harry |
Calhoun |
|
Bert |
Smith |
|
Harlan |
Parker |
|
Lewis |
Mayland |
|
Harry |
McHenry |
|
William |
Smith |
|
Ray |
Walden |
|
Walter |
Porsch |
|
James |
Wedding |
|
Dean |
Parish |
|
Glenn |
Pederson |
|
Albert |
Hoschler |
|
Edward |
Nash |
|
Clifford |
Worder |
|
Donald |
Mac
Rae |
|
Ira |
Rogers |
|
Merrill |
Morrison |
|
Robert |
Clausen |
|
Mufford |
Breese |
|
Isaac |
Davis |
|
Guy |
Worley |
|
Byron |
Van
Raden |
|
Alva |
Eaton |
|
albert |
Behmer |
|
Edwin |
Todd |
|
Ted |
Butler |
|
Henry |
Fall |
|
Fred |
Turner |
|
Cecil |
Conley |
|
Clifford |
Stevens |
|
Charles |
McCord |
|
Daneil |
Bracelin |
|
Fred |
Brummett |
|
Harry |
Anderson |
|
Marvin |
Dunn |
|
Ronald |
Loban |
|
Russell |
Hughes |
|
LLoyd |
Morrill |
|
Elmer |
Spears |
|
LLoyd |
Culp |
|
Ernest |
Stafford |
|
Edward |
Monahan |
|
Girolamo |
Viscusi |
|
Frederick |
Young |
|
Floyd |
Parkinson |
|
Walter |
Schafer |
|
Elmer |
Zuschlag |
|
Howard |
Mowery |
|
John |
Jennings |
|
William |
Lyon |
|
Harvey |
Rimel |
|
Irwin |
McConnelee |
|
Francis |
McILvaine |
|
Clem |
Hobbs |
|
Roy |
Eaton |
|
Carl |
Caviness |
|
Frank |
Brown |
|
Earl |
Shaw |
|
Jesse |
Salsbury |
|
John |
Bellak |
|
Fred |
Strong |
|
Joseph |
Pfab |
|
Everette |
Powers |
|
maurice |
Powers |
|
LLoyd |
Getteys |
|
Segurd |
Anderson |
|
Eugene |
Ford |
|
Bruce |
Croft |
|
Carl |
Beaversdorf |
|
Oscar |
Baker |
|
Joseph |
Downs |
|
Everett |
Davis |
|
Fred |
Davis |
|
Clarence |
Green |
|
Merle |
Nauman |
|
Authur |
McCullough |
|
Edward |
Fleur |
|
Nicolo |
Alongo |
|
Jesse |
Tillman |
|
August |
Schuster |
|
Frank |
Orr |
|
Clement |
Schuster |
|
Everette |
Hann |
|
Claude |
Baken |
|
Claude |
Quinn |
|
Otis |
Craig |
|
William |
Saunders |
|
Clyde |
Gustine |
|
Ivan |
Sweeny |
|
Samuel |
Hazard |
|
Gladstone |
Hewitt |
|
Russell |
Marshall |
|
Thomas |
Larson |
|
Gordon |
Perry |
|
William |
Staley |
|
Carl |
Lechner |
|
Wayne |
Huxtable |
|
Ray |
Craun |
|
John |
Price |
|
Hio |
Walterman |
|
William |
Lindsay |
|
Harry |
Chambers |
|
Michael |
Houchin |
|
Earl |
King |
|
Joseph |
Cahill |
|
Leslie |
Morrow |
|
Alonzo |
Baldwin |
|
Hubert |
Blayney |
|
Merton |
Hair |
|
George |
O'Laughlin |
|
Miles |
McBeth |
|
Hedley |
Cooper |
|
Halliday |
Smith |
|
Max |
Hubbell |
|
Ed |
Veasey |
|
Harry |
Kendall |
|
Authur |
Biesenthal |
|
Clarence |
Bebee |
|
Harvey |
Cook |
|
Louis |
Weiss |
|
August |
Van
Oyen |
|
Robert |
Reed |
|
Snedden |
Winter |
|
Patrick |
Walsh |
|
Ernest |
Foote |
|
Ario |
Pickrel |
|
John |
Meyer |
|
Joe |
Kemble |
|
Vernon |
Johnson |
|
Herbert |
Hitchcock |
|
Wm.
|
Schupp |
|
Archie |
Redden |
|
Arthur |
Bimbo |
|
William |
Short |
|
Phillip |
Plaster |
|
John |
Short |
|
Arthur |
Peach |
|
Joseph |
Semik |
|
Allen |
Peterson |
|
Vernon |
Rodgers |
|
Eugene |
Thomas |
|
Raymond |
Smith |
|
Wallace |
Luddington |
|
Rollyn |
Leonard |
|
Albert |
Karkella |
|
Fred |
Wurst |
|
Louis |
O'Dell |
|
Albert |
Killiam |
|
Tremble |
Curry |
|
Russ |
Richardson |
|
Charles |
Rots |
|
Leon |
Beatty |
|
Howard |
Graham |
|
Ernest |
Wilcox |
|
George |
Weatherill |
|
LLoyd |
Head |
|
Louis |
Koebrick |
|
Henry |
Dailey |
|
Paul |
Noel |
|
Charles |
Krumrey |
|
Marshall |
Shannon |
|
George |
Scott |
|
John |
Harrington |
|
William |
Nolan |
|
Russell |
Rickermann |
|
Fred |
Dunn |
|
Joe |
Thuman |
|
Carl |
Cook |
|
Leonard |
Fuller |
|
Glen |
Smith |
|
Clarence |
Wenlock |
|
Walter |
Lewin |
|
Milton |
Fulghum |
|
Alex |
Rasmusson |
|
Arnold |
Wright |
|
David |
Davis |
|
Carl |
McGlothlen |
|
Lester |
Purcell |
|
James |
Scott |
|
William |
Ackles |
|
Ralph |
Davis |
|
Albert |
Ewin |
|
John |
Glines |
|
Joseph |
Zendzian |
|
Ernest |
Stafford |
|
Charley |
Kidder |
|
Charles |
Harris |
|
Henry |
Christensen |
|
Guy |
Rison |
|
Luis |
Gonzales |
|
Lorin |
Hollister |
|
Ernest |
Van
De Mark |
|
Henry |
Thompson |
|
Henry |
Toepfer |
|
William |
Taylor |
|
James |
Reed |
|
Irven |
Parker |
|
Ben |
Brown |
|
Guy |
Moe |
|
James |
Quinn |
|
Edward |
Whalen |
|
Edward |
Beers |
|
Joseph |
Norris |
|
Nathaniel |
McBride |
|
James |
Kooistra |
|
Helof |
Holm |
|
Eivend |
Hamre |
|
Raymond |
Beick |
|
Delmer |
Webb |
|
Basil |
Blevins |
|
Basil |
Cowell |
|
James |
Gallagher |
|
James |
Nicodemus |
|
Thomas |
George |
|
Clarence |
Parcel |
|
Miles |
Ragland |
|
Riley |
See |
|
William |
Sutton |
|
Carl |
Barr |
|
Alton |
Bellomy |
|
Earl |
Mayers |
|
Charles |
Bunyan |
|
Jim |
Baggs |
|
Guy |
Bosley |
|
Sullivan |
Flynn |
|
Cecil |
Cummings |
|
Clifford |
Johnson |
|
Elmer |
Hoffman |
|
Ben |
Gelder |
|
John |
Kania |
|
tony |
Valles |
|
Quincy |
Mills |
|
Charles |
Marks |
|
Oscar |
peterson |
|
Harry |
Marson |
|
Harry |
Arnold |
|
Solomon |
Rubel |
|
Ralph |
Grammer |
|
LeRoy |
Dailey |
|
Carl |
Hillgardner |
|
Claude |
Rankin |
|
James |
Vaughn |
|
Charles |
Peterson |
|
Ernest |
Merkle |
|
Allen |
Hanft |
|
Merle |
McCunn |
|
Charles |
Hudson |
|
Lawrence |
Gridley |
|
Clarence |
Elliott |
|
Joseph |
O'Boyle |
|
Floyd |
Jackson |
|
John |
Graham |
|
Leo |
Kenyon |
|
Howard |
Elliot |
|
John |
Francis |
|
Kenneth |
Moore |
|
Howard |
South |
|
robert |
Snelson |
|
mathew |
Spautz |
|
William |
Shoemaker |
|
Clarence |
Foster |
|
Carcia |
Gilmore |
|
Irwin |
Sears |
|
Robert |
Gress |
|
William |
Hamilton |
|
Oliver |
Holmes |
|
Eilert |
Auen |
|
Thomas |
Evans |
|
Melvin |
Crandall |
|
Methias |
Higgs |
|
William |
Pieper |
|
Carroll |
Smith |
|
Edward |
Kops |
|
Edward |
Haarer |
|
Emil |
Johnson |
|
Arthur |
Kirchoff |
|
Pierce |
Flowers |
|
Author |
Thompson |
|
Tom |
Leonard |
|
Dewey |
McAvoy |
|
William |
Lochrie |
|
Floyd |
Wallace |
|
James |
Smith |
|
Fred |
Hayes |
|
John |
Jarvis |
|
Harry |
Hart |
|
Sol |
Morris |
|
Glenn |
Morrow |
|
Wilfred |
Bauder |
|
Owen |
Barrett |
|
Donald |
Blakeley |
|
Raymond |
Fuller |
|
Howard |
Martin |
|
Perry |
Newton |
|
Clayton |
Urry |
|
Morris |
Dunn |
|
Lawrence |
Cooper |
|
William |
Bailey |
|
Harry |
Clemens |
|
Edward |
Claffey |
|
Henry |
Chriscinske |
|
John |
Flannigan |
|
Leonard |
Anderson |
|
Ira |
Holman |
|
Orville |
Mean |
|
Christopher |
Timothy |
|
Vinton |
Bradshaw |
|
Martin |
Triplow |
|
Willard |
Hazzard |
|
Harry |
Hammons |
|
Louis |
Wenieke |
|
George |
Duffield |
|
William |
Miller |
|
Paul |
Radford |
|
Edward |
Ripple |
|
Henry |
Grasshoff |
|
Maurice |
Stephenson |
|
Marion |
Campbell |
|
Frank |
Norris |
|
Henry |
Beatty |
|
Paul |
Coffin |
|
Clyde |
Cushman |
|
John |
Euteneur |
|
William |
Pierce |
|
Carl |
Jarvis |
|
John |
Tudor |
|
William |
Wieder |
|
LeRoy |
Creaton |
|
David |
Jesperson |
|
Anthony |
Walsh |
|
Harold |
Shaffer |
|
Leonidus |
Munday |
|
John |
Van
Veen |
|
Leslie |
Haxton |
|
Heath |
Noble |
|
Orville |
Winter |
|
George |
Baker |
|
Frank |
Carson |
|
Floyd |
Mathis |
|
William |
Beasley |
|
Emmett |
Collins |
|
Melvin |
Baird |
|
Chas. |
Hartshorn |
|
Howard |
Turnbull |
|
Paul |
Dixon |
|
Alva |
Burgess |
|
Victor |
Frist |
|
Leo |
Keck |
|
Donald |
Porter |
|
William |
Swan |
|
Eugene |
Harbrecht |
|
Eddy |
Hurlbert |
|
Laverne |
Gitzy |
|
Myer |
Berkoff |
|
John |
Mee
|
|
Omar |
Shearer |
|
Charles |
Grube |
|
Henry |
Hopp |
|
John |
Kelly |
|
Clarence |
Shurtz |
|
Clell |
Hiatt |
|
Bernard |
Gudell |
|
Edward |
Haut |
|
Frank |
O'Brien |
|
Arthur |
Marks |
|
Thomas |
Way |
|
Joseph |
Gourley |
|
Frank |
Keech |
|
Charles |
Burks |
|
Charles |
Cunningham |
|
Leslie |
Darling |
|
Albert |
Lien |
|
William |
Maloney |
|
LLoyd |
Waechter |
|
William |
Olson |
|
Ned |
Rogers |
|
John |
Peterka |
|
Charles |
Laront |
|
Joseph |
Eichelsdorfer |
|
George |
Lannen |
|
Carl |
Dyvad |
|
George |
Stock |
|
Charles |
Nye |
|
Herbert |
Remondet |
|
Orville |
Woodin |
|
Denzel |
Wagner |
|
Chas. |
Miller |
|
Douglas |
Green |
|
Carlyle |
Prichard |
|
Hilmer |
Sielaff |
|
Harold |
Ross |
|
Reiley |
Miller |
|
Wesley |
Coverdale |
|
John |
Livingston |
|
Robert |
White |
|
Fred |
Cox |
|
Izador |
Chopp |
|
Richard |
Cook |
|
Forest |
Ufford |
|
John |
Farmer |
|
Frank |
Blaul |
|
Carl |
Gillen |
|
Elmer |
Bruce |
|
Emory |
Irwin |
|
Harley |
Young |
|
Chauncy |
Barr |
|
Clifford |
Litz |
|
Sanford |
Severson |
|
Donald |
Sparr |
|
Ira |
Moorehouse |
|
John |
Ellis |
|
Alva |
Gripp |
|
Brodie |
Cownie |
|
Rennie |
Henry |
|
Leo |
Atwater |
|
Laurance |
Jobe |
|
Ernest |
Giese |
|
Walter |
Meyer |
|
Ben |
Adkins |
|
karl |
Wheeler |
|
Frank |
Champion |
|
John |
Currie |
|
John |
Cox |
|
William |
Doty |
|
Leo |
McHugh |
|
Estill |
Powers |
|
Herman |
Nelson |
|
Norman |
Sonneman |
|
William |
Coon |
|
Abel |
Clark |
|
Paul |
Denlinger |
|
Elmer |
Doocy |
|
Everett |
McManus |
|
Raymond |
Loos |
|
Leslie |
Huddleston |
|
Joe |
Gibson |
|
John |
Easton |
|
Michael |
Erschens |
|
Glen |
Morgan |
|
Mahlon |
Wallace |
|
Carl |
Anderson |
|
Frank |
Wilkins |
|
Edward |
Wells |
|
Bryant |
Badger |
|
Max |
Hiemer |
|
John |
Kerberg |
|
Dimitrios |
Stratikopulos |
|
Martin |
DeWolf |
|
Lawrence |
Gilbert |
|
William |
Groat |
|
Charles |
Smith |
|
Dave |
Walen |
|
John |
Edwards |
|
Frank |
Maloch |
|
George |
Hardinger |
|
Frank |
Nallis |
|
Noel |
Harrison |
|
John |
Kalinec |
|
George |
Stewart |
|
William |
Bath |
|
Clifford |
Dimmitt |
|
Charles |
Bordeau |
|
Paul |
Adams |
|
William |
Heidenreich |
|
Cleon |
Jones |
|
Robert |
Casebolt |
|
Don |
Killen |
|
Albert |
Wallraf |
|
Bob |
Thribby |
|
John |
Marshall |
|
John |
Collins |
|
Gilbert |
Woods |
|
William |
Doyle |
|
James |
Dispain |
|
Samuel |
Swift |
|
John |
Glisson |
|
Bryan |
Robinson |
|
Noah |
Whisemount |
|
Willis |
Woodward |
|
Francisco |
LeMos |
|
Alfred |
Wolcott |
|
Byron |
Anderson |
|
William |
Boyce |
|
John |
Bloodworth |
|
Vernon |
Salor |
|
Ira |
Statterfield |
|
Charles |
Barnes |
|
Ernest |
Johnson |
|
Virden |
Leonard |
|
L. |
Lewis |
|
Kenneth |
Mueller |
|
Nicholas |
Belifore |
|
Oakley |
Cobb |
|
Gerald |
Bowen |
|
Ignac |
Moczygemba |
|
Lyle |
Rickard |
|
Claude |
Swisher |
|
Edmund |
Lamey |
|
Dempsey |
Haynes |
|
Theodore |
Loetz |
|
Walter |
Nieswiadomy |
|
Charlie |
Polton |
|
Marvin |
Arnold |
|
Alfred |
Abegg |
|
C. |
Johnson |
|
Charles |
Lint |
|
George |
Wilkenson |
|
harold |
Benge |
|
John |
Pittman |
|
Lynn |
Crawford |
|
Thomas |
Maynard |
|
Albert |
Walton |
|
Harold |
Miner |
|
Earl |
Conaway |
|
J.
|
Scrivnor |
|
Robert |
Locke |
|
Leo |
McFadden |
|
Francis |
Webster |
|
Floyd |
Newton |
|
John |
Martin |
|
John |
Lawler |
|
Willie |
Kington |
|
Michael |
Gibbons |
|
Tramble |
Dye |
|
Glen |
Gray |
|
Earl |
Lisle |
|
Lee |
Green |
|
Joseph |
Wall |
|
Edward |
Voss |
|
Leland |
Scott |
|
Peter |
Savoy |
|
William |
Bell |
|
Enerott |
Creasey |
|
James |
Galligher |
|
Randolph |
Lamb |
|
Lester |
Sharp |
|
Frank |
Parrish |
|
William |
Nunnally |
|
H. |
Lewis |
|
Alex |
Haggquist |
|
William |
Hime |
|
Ira |
Kieth |
|
Mateo |
Martinez |
|
John |
Bates |
|
max |
Schiwetz |
|
John |
Gramley |
|
Nels |
Thompson |
|
Lawrence |
Sattler |
|
William |
May |
|
Donald |
Marsh |
|
Harold |
Pouch |
|
Nathan |
Harvey |
|
Peter |
Hansen |
|
Oscar |
Nelson |
|
Robert |
Gillett |
|
William |
Shawalt |
|
A. |
Stolleis |
|
Joe |
Pinso |
|
Carl |
Peterson |
|
AAron |
Owens |
|
Bert |
Nicley |
|
Domingo |
Mesa |
|
George |
Herbel |
|
John |
Burke |
|
William |
Baker |
|
William |
Austin |
|
John |
Farraday |
|
Sidney |
Baker |
|
LeRoy |
Craig |
|
Walter |
Butcher |
|
Philip |
Burroughs |
|
Earl |
Nelson |
|
Lester |
Angel |
|
Louis |
Dilla |
|
Henry |
Gillespie |
|
Earl |
Dixon |
|
Joseph |
Kohuth |
|
Gilbert |
Nordman |
|
Edward |
Hawley |
|
Kay |
Tusing |
|
Martini |
Signoretta |
|
John |
Madison |
|
Stanis |
Chapas |
|
Leo |
McNamara |
|
Charles |
Espy |
|
Ernestr |
Morrow |
|
Arthur |
Brandt |
|
Herman |
Fell |
|
Teddy |
Ziddnos |
|
Clifford |
Wilson |
|
Ralph |
Kline |
|
Govan |
Quinn |
|
Wayland |
Gardner |
|
Merwyn |
Smith |
|
Charles |
Garey |
|
Robert |
Phillip |
|
Charles |
Wamsley |
|
Ralph |
Grover |
|
Clarence |
Busick |
|
Hugh |
Kerns |
|
Evald |
Rodin |
|
John |
Wiley |
|
Harold |
Peterson |
|
Earl |
Herbert |
|
Alvin |
Hench |
|
Thomas |
Burkes |
|
William |
Payne |
|
Sterling |
Moore |
|
Elmer |
Nord |
|
Olivo |
Torson |
|
Daniel |
Motter |
|
Robert |
Higgins |
|
Harold |
McGee |
|
Champ |
Jones |
|
Hollis |
Page |
|
Norman |
Oliver |
|
Earl |
Dunham |
|
Loren |
Davis |
|
George |
Jones |
|
George |
Vaughn |
|
Fred |
Irvin |
|
Glenn |
Rhodes |
|
William |
McMurray |
|
Thomas |
Langan |
|
Peter |
Gartner |
|
James |
Whalen |
|
Carl |
Cook |
|
August |
Nelson |
|
Thomas |
Reese |
|
Harold |
Glover |
|
George |
Hawkins |
|
Patrick |
Shuckrow |
|
Louie |
Turner |
|
Frank |
Blocklinger |
|
Raymond |
Burke |
|
F. |
Hitchins |
|
Martin |
Djonne |
|
Clark |
Thatcher |
|
Oscar |
Althar |
|
Claude |
Stanley |
|
Henry |
Bunch |
For information on any of
the above names or on the story of the Rainbow Warriors contact Virgil
Reiter at
PCREITER@aol.com.
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The financial cost of the
war is said to have amounted to almost $38 billion for Germany alone;
Britain spent $35 billion, France $24 billion, Russia $22 billion, USA
$22 billion and Austria-Hungary $20 billion. In total the war cost
the Allies around $125 billion; the Central Powers $60 billion. |
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