Wisconsin's Gold Star List; Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, and Nurses from the Badger State Who Died in the Federal Service During the World War

Madison, WI: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1925. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [2], 224 pages. Abbreviations. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. The Gold Star List is organized by Service and then alphabetically by county. This is one of the Publications of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, It is also stated as one of the Wisconsin Historical Publications. Only 6000 were printed. This is an ex-library copy with the usual markings. John G. Gregory was one of Milwaukee’s prominent newspaper editors, historians, and civic leaders. John G. Gregory was born in 1856 and at the age of twelve began his career as a newspaperman. He worked for the Milwaukee Sentinel and the Evening Wisconsin as a typesetter, reporter and editor. He had a lifelong interest in history and published a history of Milwaukee in 1930. He also helped coordinate other Wisconsin histories. He died in 1947. In connection with this work he was associated with the Department of War History of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Among the information sources used to compile this Gold Star List was a card index used in administering the Wisconsin bonus law. Many men from Wisconsin who lost their lives in the World War ere not in the service of the United States or not identified as from Wisconsin. Some of these were enrolled in Canadian unites or in the service of Great Britain or France. The names of the men in these categories rarely or never appear in the lists used to assemble this compilation. There always will remain a mystery as to some whose names slipped out of the records, or who were mistakenly deemed to have died but were later found to have survived. This extensive list of casualties from Wisconsin provides details of the hometown, age, unit, location of death, and cause of death, for those soldiers, sailors, marines, and nurses who all gave their life in World War I. The first installment of source material used in the compilation of the data here presented was supplied by the War Department at Washington, which gathered information from original official reports and records. This material comprised lists-necessarily imperfect-of officers and enlisted men from Wisconsin who died while serving with the American Expeditionary Force during the World War. A letter from the Adjutant General of the Army to the Adjutant General of Wisconsin which accompanied a set of these lists requested that they be checked against casualty cards previously transmitted, and that discrepancies noted be reported. This course was carefully followed in the office of the Adjutant General of Wisconsin, which collated the data received from Washington with statistics of its own relating to Wisconsin soldiers, and constructed a card index that was of value to the Service Recognition Board in administering the Wisconsin bonus law, and has afforded great help in the prosecution of the present task. In the lists from Washington the soldiers’ names are arranged with reference to the branch of the service to which respective individuals belonged, whether Regular Army, National Guard, Enlisted Reserve Corps, or National Army; and the National Army list is subdivided to show whether entry was by enlistment or induction. In the card-index roster at the office of the Adjutant General of Wisconsin the names are grouped by counties. A card index showing the names of applicants for the Wisconsin bonus, and the action on such applications taken by the Board in each case, has also aided the preparation of the present list, which has been compared with numerous honor rolls made up by patriotic associations, and with other local compilations. At the office of the Adjutant General of Wisconsin there are separate official returns from Washington relating to the Marine Corps, to sailors, and to nurses who served in the war. These, it would appear, approximate completeness less nearly than those relating to the Army, but full use has been made of the information which they contain bearing on the subject of this list. Condition: Good.

Keywords: Gold Star, First World War, World War I, Badger State, Federal Service, Reference Works, American Expeditionary Force, Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Nurses, Military Service, War Casualties, War Dead

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