Boggs James Howard

Monuments

First Division Monument (Soissons)

Name:

James Howard Boggs

Rank:

Private

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Unit:

28th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division

Date of Death:

1918-07-19

State:

Oregon

Cemetery:

Aisne-Marne American Cem., Belleau, France

Plot:

Tablets of the Missing

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James Howard Boggs' home was at Lincoln, Nebraska. He entered the service at Lorella, Oregon, on September 18, 1917. After several months In a training camp on the west coast, he was sent to Camp Mills to a regular Army Infantry Division, which was stationed there at that time. He went to France In February, 1918. He was Killed in Action while passing through a heavy machine gun barrage, but, declared "Missing" on July 19, 1918. He is memorialized on Tablets of the Missing, Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, Belleau, France.