Howard B. Gray - Windsor, CT
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N 41° 51.571 W 072° 38.772
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The grave of Howard Burdette Gray who was killed during World War I at Chateau Thierry is located in Riverside Cemetery, Windsor, CT.
Waymark Code: WMWQ80
Location: Connecticut, United States
Date Posted: 10/01/2017
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The grave of Howard B. Gray is marked by a granite headstone and a military marble footstone. The granite headstone has a five pointed star at the top and the inscription:
WORLD WAR
HOWARD B. GRAY,
DEC. 10, 1897
JULY 21, 1918
Co. K. 102nd Regt. 26th. Div. U.S.A.
Killed At Chateau Thierry
France
The marble footstone is inscribed:
WORLD WAR
HOWARD B. GRAY,
Co. K. 102 U.S.I.
DIED JULY 21, 1918
AE 21
Howard B. Gray worked for the General Electric Co. as a clerk. He enlisting to join his brother in Company K, 1st Infantry Regiment of the Connecticut National Guard on November 20, 1916. With the outbreak of WWI, the 1st Infantry Regiment was called into service on March 26, 1917.
During the mobilization for World War I the 1st Infantry Regiment was combined with the 2nd Infantry Regiment to form the 102nd Infantry Regiment of the 26th Infantry Division, the famed Yankee Division, on August 24, 1917. On September 15, 1917 the unit left for Southampton, England. Howard B. Gray was wounded during the Battle of Chateau Thierry and died of his wound in the 103rd Field Hospital, 26th Infantry Division on July 21, 1918.
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