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Clarence W. Worst

Submitted by: Robert P. Worst, Sr.

Clarence W. Worst served in World War 1 with the United States Army . The dates of service are: Unknown .

Served in France as an ambulance driver 1918, with the 28th Division Pennsylvania.

Served with a good friend, by the last name of Goode. They were know as Goode and Worst. Their commanding officer thought was so funny that he gave them a pass to Paris.

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Dewey E. Willoughby

Submitted by: Denise Arie

Dewey E. Willoughby served in World War 1 with the United States Army. The dates of service are: Known June 18, 1916 - July 3, 1919.

Sgt 124th Machine Gun Battalion (National Guard Division from Illinois) - fought along the Western Front of Le Hamel and in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Was gassed while serving. Died of related health issues at age 47. Son of Wilson and Laura Logue Willoughby. Husband of Leona Roberts Willoughby.

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William "Bill" Connolly

Submitted by: T. J. Cullinane

William "Bill" Connolly served in World War 1 with the United States Army. The dates of service are: Known 1917 - 1919.

Remembering Our Family’s World War One Veteran

William Alfred Connolly
(September 6, 1895 – May 13, 1962)

Long before he was wounded while serving as a Sergeant in the Quartermaster Corps during the First World War, Massachusetts native William A. “Bill” Connolly had somewhat the reputation of a daredevil. Whether he was acting on a dare or fleeing from a ruler wielding harridan of the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph, Connolly jumped from a second story window at St. Joseph’s Institute at 43 Green Street in Lynn. He somehow survived unscathed, at least until he returned to school the next day….

Bill was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, the son of Thomas F. Connolly and Ellen (Logue) Connolly. When Bill was just a toddler, his mother died after falling down a flight of stairs. Bill and his younger brother Steve, who would one day become the writer’s grandfather, were taken to the nearby city of Lynn to live with relatives. As we read above, Bill was educated by the Sisters of Saint Joseph, but as they say, “it didn’t take.” When Congress declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917, Bill was 21 years of age and living at 45 Eutaw Ave in Lynn.

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Private Sadeck Ali Mollah

Submitted by: Tanveer Kalo

Private Sadeck Ali Mollah served in World War 1 with the United States Army . The dates of service are: Known August 3, 1918 to October 12, 1918.

Private Sadeck Ali Mollah was born on Janurary 14, 1891 in Hooghly West Bengal, India. He arrived to the United States prior to 1917.

He settled in Charleston, South Carolina and New York City.

By 1917 he lived at 134 King St Charleston, South Carolina.

He married Elisabeth A Pfoff on May 3, 1918 in Bronx, New York.

In South Carolina, Mollah was a peddler and merchant before being inducted in the U.S. Army.

Mollah was entrained on July 14, 1918 and sent to Camp Wadsworth, South Carolina. He was inducted into the U.S. Army on August 3, 1918. it is interesting to note that on Mollah's World War I draft, his race was listed as white or Caucasian.

He was sent to Camp Upton in New York and was part of the 32 Company 8 Battalion 152 Depot Brigade until August 14, 1918. Private Mollah was then transferred to Company M, 3rd Dev battalion until his death.

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Sgt. Stubby

Submitted by: Laura A. Macaluso

Sgt. Stubby served in World War 1 as a military service animal. The dates of service are: Known July 1917-April 1919.

In 2018, Stubby, a street dog from New Haven, Connecticut, will achieve what few other canines who served during World War I can claim: he will be the subject of a full-length animated film shown across the nation. He is already seen by thousands of tourists every year—a version of him stands erect near Cher Ami the famous carrier pigeon of WWI in the National Museum of American History. His famous coat of medals, a harness and a collar are all in the museum’s collection of nationally significant war material.

Although the story of Stubby can be traced through the medals and inscriptions his coat and collar document, the question still boggles the mind—just how did a street dog end up traveling with a Doughboy on the western front during the last eighteen months of a horrendous world war?

The Western front today is peaceful. Off the beaten track for most tourists, eastern France, where the Yankee Division fought, is a land of rolling hills, farms, vineyards, forests and small towns. Military cemeteries for World War I—French, Belgian, German, American—are not hard to find. Bob Conroy and Stubby could have ended up in one of the American cemeteries, just like 80 members of the 102nd Regiment after the small, but deadly Battle of Seicheprey in April of 1918, but, they did not, and after healing from gas and shrapnel wounds, continued participating in all of the campaigns of the war until its end on November 11, 1918.

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Private Birendra M. Biswas

Submitted by: Tanveer Kalo {Affiliation name:value}

Private Birendra M. Biswas served in World War 1 with the United States Army. The dates of service are: Known August, 20 1918 to December 30, 1918.

Birendra M. Biswas was born in Calcutta, India. Biswas' exact birth date is contested because several of his documents have different dates. He immigrated to the United States in 1912. and settled in 355 Hicks Street Brooklyn, New York.

Private Biswas was inducted into the U.S. Army on August 20, 1918 in Brooklyn. It is interesting to note that both his World War I and New York military service abstract listed his race as white. He was assigned to the Quartermaster Corps at Camp Meigs in Washington D.C. until his discharge. He did not serve overseas.

He filed a petition for naturalization while serving in the U.S. Army on October 24, 1918.

Biswas was honorably discharged on December 30, 1918.

After the war, Biswas returned to Brooklyn. By 1920 he still lived at 355 Hicks Street. By 1930, Biswas lived by himself at 2732 West Street and worked in the crystal gazer industry. His 1930 listed his race as Indian and language as Bengali. He lived at 27-95 Ocean Parkway.

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Moximo Cayous

Submitted by: Ron Hentges

Moximo Cayous served in World War 1 with the United States Army. The dates of service are: Known 9/18/17-4/26/19.

He served with the 364th Infantry.

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Private Duggu Ramn

Submitted by: Tanveer Kalo

Private Duggu Ramn served in World War 1 with the United States Army . The dates of service are: Known September 22, 1917- June 5, 1919.

Private Duggu Ramn was born in Simula Hill, Hindustan, East India. His exact date of birth is contested. On his World War I draft card, U.S. naturalization documents, and U.S social security claim list his date of birth as August 11, 1893. While his gravestone notes it as August 11, 1895. it is important to note that on Ramn's World War I draft card, his race was listed as Indian.

He arrived to the United States on June 15,1914 and settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Ramn was inducted into U.S. Army on September 22, 1917 in Philadelphia . He served with Company E of the 304 Engineer Regiment, 79th Division. In 1918, Ramn was naturalized by the State of Maryland.

He served overseas from July 9, 1918 to May 29, 1919. Private Ramn and his unit departed from Hoboken, New Jersey for Europe on the ship France. On his U.S. Army Transport Service passenger List he put down his address as 67-74 Chew Street, Mount Airy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He also listed his friend, Mr. Samuel Lenten, as his next of kin. Private Ramn saw action in the Muese- Argonne offensive and was gassed in Nantillois on October 9, 1918. He was honorably discharged on June 5, 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey and returned to Philadelphia.

By 1920 Ramn lived by himself in a rented home on 68-36 Musgrave or Musgrove Street in Philadelphia. In his 1920 U.S. federal census, his race was listed as Hindu or East Indian and his native tongue was listed as Hindu. Hindustan was listed as his birthplace as well as his parents. On the census it also said Ramn was a painter at a ship yard and was able to read and write.

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Private Sam Hindu(o)

Submitted by: Tanveer Kalo

Private Sam Hindu(o) served in World War 1 with the United States Army . The dates of service are: Known April 23, 1918- March 8, 1919.

Sam Hindu(o) was born in Bombay, British India in 1895. He immigrated to the United States before 1917 and settled in Brooklyn, New York.

Hindu(o) was inducted into the U.S. Army on April 23, 1918 in Brooklyn New York. He was part of Company I of the 367th infantry, which was part of the 92 Division. The division was a famous segregated infantry unit during the war and was nick named the "Buffalo Soldiers".

Private Hindu(o) served overseas from June 10, 1918 to February 17, 1919. Hindu(o) and his unit left for France on June 10, 1918 from Hoboken, New Jersey on the ship America. He listed on his departing and arriving U.S. Army Transport Passenger lists, Mrs Maggie or Mary Williams as his next of kin. He also listed his address as 27 Fleet Place, Brooklyn, New York. Hindu(o) and his unit departed from Brest, France on February 8, 1919 on the ship Rotterdam and arrived in the Hoboken, New Jersey on February 17, 1919 for Camp Upton, New York.

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Ernest Elijah Henderson

Submitted by: Johnny Henderson

Ernest Elijah Henderson served in World War 1 with the United States Army. The dates of service are: Known June 5, 1918 - July 22, 1919.

Born: April 13, 1897 in Charlotte, Arkansas (Independence County)

Died: January 18, 1981 (gravesite Blue Springs Cemetery, Newark, Arkansas)

Ernest Elijah Henderson served in the Infantry of the United States Army during the First World War.

He registered for the Local Selective Service Draft Board for Independence County in Batesville, Arkansas on June 5, 1918. His registration indicates that at that time, he was a farmer with his father (J. E. Henderson) at Newark, Arkansas.

He was inducted as a Private (Serial # 3826279) into the U. S. Army and he was assigned on June 5, 1918, to the AEF (American Expeditionary Forces) with the 162nd Depot Brigade of the 87th Division at Camp Pike, Little Rock, Arkansas.

He was deployed from the U. S. on September 3, 1918, and he arrived in Brest, France on September 9, 1918. He was a machine gunner and he was involved in the Meuse-Argonne battle. He was demobilized on November 30, 1918. He left from Brest, France on June 27, 1919, and he arrived back in the U. S. on July 5, 1919. (He was a member of the AEF from June 5, 1918 to July 5, 1919.)

He was assigned to a demobilized group at Camp Pike from July 18, 1919, until his date of discharge. He was Honorably discharged, with the rank of Private, from the United States Army on July 22, 1919.