Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-22 | Page 24 | Utah Soldiers on List of Casualties

UTAH SOLDERS 1 LIST OF CASUALTIES Three Salt Lake Men Are Killed in Action and One Is Wounded. The following' Utah .soldiers are reported report-ed on the casualty lists, according to messages received by relatives the last few days: Benjamin M. Roe, Salt Lake, wounded; Raymond P. Johnson. Salt bake, killed in action; Krnesl Rudy Ro-sell, Ro-sell, Salt bake, killed in action; Sergeant Ser-geant Guy J. Jurgensen. Salt bake-, killed iu action; George Rowland Croft, Centerville, Utah, dead of wounds; Ser; gant Otto V. Fackrell. Woods Cross, Utah, wounded; Sterling Russell, Grafton, Utah, killed in action. Benjamin M. Roe. -3 years old, brother of Harry H. Roe. 28 East Second North street, has been twice wounded in action. On September oil , Mr. Roe was hit in L the neck and shoul- FV " der and on Xovem- 9"J v ber .1 was serious j y yv l-St$ wounded. Mr. Roe VfmawW. who tought in the 1&4xJ&J& Argonne with the ? x " 62 n d i n f a n t ry , G company, Ni n e U - first division, is one t of eighteen sur l- -f vors of his conipam a A member of Roes company writing to i Sergeant Martin . t, I-Yuhman. who re- K- -4f w" a S Benjamin M. Eoe. "Roe was wounded in the chest the second sec-ond day in line, but refused to leave and three hours later he was shot in the ankle and had to be carried off the field." spsjj Raymond P. John- son, son of J. P. and v 'f Anna O. Johnson. 2&mtr4l T98 South Tenth gr, t r I ast street. was IT (&x 5 'I Killed in action .'o- zs, J member 11, accord-S$J,-iv fei "ig" to a message to - x- hits parents from the i war department. Mr. JollnSOIl, WllO Was jpk .A a carpenter and 32 L, ears old. was a JH&vJL s member of C com- rany, ,161st infantry. $T He left Salt bake ' for Camp be wis la.st Raymond Johns on. faster. He sailed Julj" 4 and arrived in England. July 14. Ernest Rudy Roselt, son of "Airs. C. J. Ropell. Z'Si) Reed avenue, is reported to have been killed in action October 20, according ac-cording to a message from the adjutant general's office. Mr. Roscll was 2S years t old. bast April he was drafted find sent to Camp Lewis. Later- he entered the engineer corps and was sent to France, arriving in June. Sergeant Guy J. Jurgensen, 915 "West Third South street, who was reported recently as severely wounded, was killed in action October 7, according to a message mes-sage received yesterday at the Utah Copper company, where hc was em- ! ployed in the purchasing department. I He was 27 years old and son of Mrs. i Mary C. Jurgensen, who is now in Cali- ! fornia. 1 Information has just been received bv Mr. and Mrs. John T. Woodland of Wil-lard Wil-lard from officials of "Washington that their son. elton VT. "Woodland, had been Killed 1n action ac-tion in France, Oc- x iaSe tober 16. The parents had? V" ? not heard from their LMrrssastM Mr. Woodland uti horn at Arimn Ida ( -Sr4, Juno 1, 1SCI. He , A a entered tho ser ice fPf?' last June at Poca- j?f? y tello, Idaho, and J sent to Camp Lowi. v. x From there he wi X sent to Camp Kear- w W Woodland, ny and then overseas With the ioth artillery. lie was assigned as-signed to another division shortly after arriving near the battle front and was in the thick of the fighting soon after Ihis arrival. Besides his parents, he is survived by :six brothers and four sisters. George Howiand Croft died in France November 2i. from wounds received iu action, according to a message to rcla-Mves. rcla-Mves. Mr. Croft was the son nf the late W. Jf. Croft of Centerville. and was 2?. years old. He left home September l"1, i 1 ill T. for Camp Lewis and later was i transferred to Camp Greene, X. C. in ! Mhv, last, he went overseas with ma -1 chi nc -gun company. Fifty-nincth infa.ii- try. Mr. Croft was slightly wounded in , August, but soon returned to the front. .lle was well known in inlormountam : a thletirs. having been two years with the Idaho basketball team and two years I with the Tooele high school team. He leaves two brothers and two sisters: IW. P. Croft and J. H. Croft. Heyburn, ' Idaho; Mrs. Ella C. Evans and Mrs. Dora C. Smith. Centerville. i Sergeant Otto E. Fackrell, son of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Fackrell of Woods Cross, was wounded October Si by a machine-gun bullet, striking him in the thigh. lie is recovering at a base hospital. hos-pital. Tottenham. England. Sergeant Fackrell was in line for a commission, his wound delaying the promotion. lie is a member of L company, ,TB2nd infantry. in-fantry. Sergeant Fackrell was recommended recom-mended for a commission for bravery in "the Argonue fighting. Sterling Russell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Russeil of Grafton, was killed in France, November 7. Uc entered the armv in May last, going to Camp Lewis in -Tune. Later he was transferred to Camp Kearny. He was graduated from the St. George Stake academy and the Dixie Normal college. Besides his parents par-ents he is survived by his widow and a young child.