Name:
Joshua Davis Slonaker
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55th Engineers
Date of Death:
1918-07-31
State:
West Virginia
Cemetery:
Quaker Cemetery, Capon Bridge, Hampshire County, West Virginia
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Joshua Davis Slonaker was born on December 3, 1886, in Capon Bridge, West Virginia. He was the son of George Washington Slonaker and Almira Virginia Oglesbee Slonaker.
Joshua served as a Corporal in the 55th Engineers during World War I. He died of disease in France on July 31, 1918, and was buried in an American cemetery in France but was later re-interred in Quaker Cemetery near his hometown of Dillon's Run, West Virginia. He was one of the 171 American servicemen who trained at the Third Aviation Instruction Center in France and died between 1917-1919.