Name:
Alfonso Peak
Rank:
Bugler
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Unit:
2nd Machine Gun Battalion, 1st Infantry Division
Date of Death:
1918-07-21
State:
Illinois
Cemetery:
Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia
Plot:
Section 18, Site 4246
Row:
Grave:
Decoration:
Comments:
When Alfonso Peak was born on March 15, 1891, in Vermilion, Illinois, his father, John, was 24 and his mother, Ida, was 18. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II as a Bugler in Company C, 2nd Machine Gun Battalion, 1st Infantry Division. He was killed in action on July 21, 1918, in Chatteau Thierry, France and is now buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA.