Veterans' Memorial Project
Laurens Corning Shull
Sioux City, IL
World War I
Lt. Shull entered First Officers’ Training Camp at Fort Snelling, near Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 15, 1917. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Infantry Reserve Corps and selected for immediate duty in France. He sailed on September 7, 1917, to Liverpool, England, and dispatched to France for training in a British Army School. Upon completion of this course, he was assigned to the 26th Infantry, Company F, First Division, December, 1917, when that division was occupying a portion of the line in the Toul sector. Company F was in the battalion commanded by Major Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. Lt. Shull was later transferred to Company G of that same regiment, which company he was commanding when he was seriously wounded on July 19, 1918, at Soissons, in the famous Chateau Thierry drive. He died at American Red Cross Hospital No. 1 at Neuilly, a suburb of Paris, of complications due to bullet wounds. For his action in leading his men against a German machine-gun nest on that day, Lt. Shull was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross by his commanding officer. Lt. Shull was initially buried in the American cemetery at Suresnes overlooking Paris. The body was later buried in December, 1921, at the family vault at Graceland Park Cemetery in Sioux City, Iowa. A Sioux City, Iowa, Veterans of Foreign Wars post has been named the Lt. Laurens C. Shull VFW Post 580.
-taken from Web site above and University records
Further information: https://www.iagenweb.org/greatwar/mispub/NHI/Shull_LaurensC.htm
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