Veterans' Memorial Project

Alexander (Alan) Val Mercer

Grand Haven, MI

World War I

College: Engineering

Graduation Year: Attended 1903

Service Branch: Army

Rank: Private

Date of Birth: 05/04/1886

Date of Death: 09/30/1917

Private Mercer died from pneumonia in France. He served with Headquarters Company F, 18th Railway Engineers, which included 1200 men from the Pacific Coast. He had enlisted with this group after the start of the war, although he was past draft age. His parents lived at Coos Bay, Oregon, where he is buried at Coos Bay Cemetery.

-taken from Illinois Alumni News, May 1, 1918

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