Monday, May 22, 2017

Honor Roll: Macon, Georgia, Coleman Hill Park

The 151st Machine Gun Battalion memorial commemorating those in the battalion who lost their lives during World War I is located at Coleman Hill Park in Macon, Georgia.

The 151st Machine Gun Battalion was part of the 42nd Rainbow Division.

151st Machine Gun Battalion Honor Roll, Coleman Hill Park, Macon,
Georgia; courtesy of U.S. World War I Centennial Commission

In Memory of Those of the
151st Machine Gun Battalion

* Killed in Action + Died in Service

That Their Names May Live
With Their Valor

Company A, Macon Hussars

Thomas H. Blissett*
Jesse D. Bridges *
Robert D. Collins*
Edgar Coots+
Herman K. Davis*
Frank Enters*
Bernard F. Greene*
Normand H. Hawkinson+
Paul Hearn*
Thomas W. Hollis*
Frank M. Hunt*
Otis Knight*
Ernest P. McWilliams*
John Morteson+
Clifford I. Phillips*
Delbert W. Sawyer+
Jack Taylor*
Melvin Wilson+
Ben Whitt+

Company B, Macon Volunteers

Frank L. Adkins+
Chambers L. Bunting*
Calvin C. Climer*
Otis E. Cook*
Clifford Evans*
James J. Guerry*
Daniel P. Hudson*
Charles B. Long*
Emmett L. Martin*
James G. Mason*
Paul B. Minter*
Willie C. Murray*
Gussie Rich+
George F. Robertson*
Guerry J. Temple*
Homer J. Terry+
Madie R. Ware*
Thomas G. Whittaker*

Company C, Floyd Rifles

Troy D. Barnett*
Harry C. Deanor*
Clarence D. Fordham*
Delmere M. Howard*
Freeman C. Mills+
Jarvis W. Moore*
Mark Mosco*
James M. Oliver*
Roy S. Ratley*
Carl Thompson*
Joseph E. Tucker+
Earl S. Wadsworth*
George L. Weeks*
Ira Wilkinson*

Company D, Lancaster Penna.

Abraham Breitigan*
Raymond Bryson*
Martin Cover*
Frank Cramblett*
David T. Davis*
Carroll Fanus*
John A. Harkcom*
Aaron Jenkins*
Julius M. Lyons*
Martin L. Moore*
Ralph W. Olds*
Charles J. Reamsnyder*
George A. Rodman*
George Smith*
Sylvester Sullivan+
John G. Walter*
Fred White*
Harry White+
Harry Wright*

DULCE et DECORUM est PRO PATRIA MORI

(Translation: It is sweet and glorious to die for one's country)

Erected by
The Ladies Auxiliary
151st Machine Gun Bn.
Assisted by the Men
Of the Battalion
1922

This post was written as a contribution to the Honor Roll Project, which was created by Heather Wilkinson Rojo, author of Nutfield Genealogy.

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