When Henry Herbon was born in 1890 in Wilmette, Illinois, his father, Herman, was 31 and his mother, Hannah, was 27. He had four brothers and three sisters. He was a chauffer at the time he entered service in June 1917. Affliated with St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Wilmette, where both his father and a member of his mother's family were among the 12 charter members in 1903. He served in the U.S. Army during World War I as a Private in Company I, 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. Private Herbon was killed in the Mondidier-Noyon Defensive, near the town of Villers-Tournelle on June 9, 1918. The Germans opened up with a huge artillery barrage including mustard and chlorine gas. He is now buried in Somme American Cemetery, Bony, France.

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