Corporal Joseph J. Clinton isn’t a Norwalker but is from the next town east, Westport. As is common practice in the Veterans of Foreign Wars, posts are named for a deceased veteran that the membership feels deserves permanent recognition, which the post in Westport did in April 1920. I started looking into him a coupleContinue reading “CORPORAL JOSEPH JEROME CLINTON; U.S. ARMY”
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CORPORAL CHARLES AUGUST MATTHIAS; U.S. ARMY
May 20, 1895 (Greens Farms, Westport, CT) – April 11, 1918 (France); 22 years oldUnmarriedLived on Greens Farms Road in Westport prior to the serviceEnlisted on September 7, 1917Assigned to Company H, 304th Infantry, until September 18, 1917Assigned to Company E, 102nd Infantry Regiment, 26th Infantry Division, until his deathPromoted to Private First Class onContinue reading “CORPORAL CHARLES AUGUST MATTHIAS; U.S. ARMY”
