1st Lieut Benjamin Logan Englerth, US Army Medical Corps. From Honey Creek, Henry County, USA, Benjamin was born on 2 January 1892. The son of a doctor, he wished to follow in his father's footsteps and graduated from the Eclectic Medical School of Cincinnatti in 1915 before enlisting into the Army medical services in 1917. Seeing service on the Western Front from early 1918, Benjamin contracted pneumonia and died, in Base Hospital Nr 101 at St Nazaire, on 16 December 1918. Initially buried in the US Cemetery at St.Nazaire, Benjamin's body was repatriated in the 1920s.
16 December 1918
Research by David O'Mara, Croonaert Research Services.
