Name:
Floyd Wilson Clay
Rank:
Sergeant
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Unit:
18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division
Date of Death:
1918-07-20
State:
West Virginia
Cemetery:
Aisne-Marne American Cem., Belleau, France
Plot:
Tablets of the Missing
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Grave:
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Comments:
When Floyd Wilson Clay was born on July 23, 1893, in Logan, West Virginia, his father, Hurston, was 35 and his mother, Zemenia, was 13. He had three brothers and four sisters. He served in the U.S. Army during World War I as a Sergeant in Company G, 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. He was Killed in Action but declared "Missing" on July 20, 1918 and is memorialized on Tablets of the Missing, Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, Belleau, France. He has a marker in Franklin Cemetery, Branchland, Lincoln County, West Virginia, USA.