The 56th Engineers of World War I

Company G, 56th Engineers (Searchlight)
March 15, 1919

***Please help us identify the men pictured in the photo***

Photo courtesy of Trudy Young, great niece of Wagoner John Daniel Eriksen
Original located at Southport Historical Society. Click here for the digital file.

The names of the men believed to be in the photo are listed in the table below.

These names were not taken from the rosters of the unit (source listed at bottom), but were found in the US Army Transport Lists from February 25, 1919, which are pictured at bottom. This seemed to be the best source of which men were present in the photo above dated March 15, 1919.

The # on List column in the chart corresponds to the US Army Transport List at bottom which includes that soldier.

# on List	Name	Rank	Birth	Death	Findagrave
2b	Frank J Akin	Master Engr Jr Gr			ex-wife Anna Rohan Akin
22	Jasper Marvin Allen	Private	04/14/1894	05/18/1969	Fort Worth, TX
215	Hovannes Hovsep Altounian	Private	05/19/1893	07/21/1967
188	Anton Waldermar Anderson	Private First Class	07/28/1888	06/13/1953	Minneapolis, MN
148	Ivor Franz Anderson	Wagoner	09/10/1891	03/02/1990	Duluth, MN
184	Henry Jacob Ashcraft	Private First Class	02/10/1887	03/06/1963	Monongahela, PA
3b	Bertram Ashenfelter	Master Engr Jr Gr	05/05/1897	05/01/1980	Riverside Cemetery Norristown, PA
2	Benjamin Erle Bakke	Mess Sergeant	02/19/1894	04/16/1986	North Versailles, PA
192	John Paul Barron	Private First Class	06/28/1887	06/03/1919	Chelton Hills Cemetery Philadelphia, PA
54	Walter Daniel Baumann	Wagoner	12/03/1891	11/06/1957	Chicago, IL
171	Alexander Fletcher Baxter	Wagoner	11/02/1894	05/21/1948	Phoenix, AZ
109	Arell Samuel Beall	Private	12/19/1888	12/23/1926	Brentwood, MD
125	Lawrence Aloysius Belz	Private	02/18/1894	03/24/1974
158	Carl Henry Berger	Private	09/20/1889	07/30/1936	Seattle, WA
3	Edgar Robin Bisson	Sergeant	12/22/1895	11/06/1974	Tucson, AZ
7b	Louis Blassberg	Sgt 1st Class	05/14/1892	08/15/1959	East Farmingdale, NY
200	Timothy Daniel Boon	Wagoner	02/07/1896	10/26/1964	Florence, SC
112	Ernest Conrad Braun	Private First Class	08/26/1892	04/16/1937	Hillside, IL
213	Francis Cornelius Breen	Private	08/31/1884	08/09/1938	Saint John Cemetery Middle Village, NY
132	Olaf Sigurd Briwick	Private	03/21/1888	05/03/1977	West Salem, WI
106	William Bradford Burnell	Corporal	12/28/1894	03/28/1982	Hayward, CA
8b	Roderick Deane Burnham	Sgt 1st Class	08/22/1886	07/01/1976	Three Rivers, CA
92	Luke Edward Butler	Private	09/30/1895	03/11/1974
144	Edward Munson Byrne	Corporal	10/05/1896	09/16/1932	Arlington, VA
30	James Edward Callahan	Private First Class	12/06/1893	08/22/1981	Williamsport, PA
162	Walter Miller Callahan	Wagoner	05/09/1894	02/04/1953	Beverly, NJ
33	William Joseph Cantwell	Private	11/07/1897	09/15/1954	Bar Harbor, ME
123	Orville Leo Carmany (Sedam)	Private	09/11/1895	12/04/1962	Indianapolis, IN
40	Ernest Carroll	Private	04/16/1896	03/08/1984	Floyd, VA
113	John Garside Casey	Wagoner	07/23/1895	04/06/1990	Des Plaines, IL
138	George Alfred Chase	Private First Class	12/06/1895	03/12/1958	Minneapolis, MN
46	Henry Oliver Clark	Private	03/01/1888	04/18/1964	Brick Cemetery Eatonville, PA
193	Leon Francis Colby	Wagoner	03/05/1896	10/25/1971	Enfield, CT
83	Fred Angus Conn	Private	01/27/1893	11/13/1970
94	Charles Edgar Cook	Wagoner	03/20/1882	04/02/1963	Patriot, IN
189	John Frank Craney	Private First Class	03/20/1894	01/21/1961	Big Sandy, TN
84	Harry Leroy Cross	Wagoner	02/25/1888	01/22/1967	Minneapolis, MN
108	David Cullen	Wagoner	04/26/1897	12/05/1972	Norristown, PA
63	Patrick J Cummings	Private First Class	03/12/1878	09/27/1948	Woodside, NY
90	Arthur Raymond Cummins	Corporal	11/29/1894	06/13/1967	Dunmore Cemetery Dunmore, PA
80	Alonzo Freeman Daddysman	Wagoner	04/25/1888	03/09/1952	Arlington, VA
143	Patrick Joseph Daley	Cook	01/17/1886	09/22/1922	Warren, PA
118	Charles Franklin Davis	Wagoner	09/24/1898	06/12/1984	Sioux City, IA
191	Leon Elisha Decker	Corporal	05/22/1890	02/09/1973	Bristol, CT
197	Seraphin Joseph Demers	Wagoner	08/20/1890	01/29/1942	Manchester, NH
124	Karl Emerson Dillinger	Private First Class	11/10/1894	01/24/1962	George Washington Memorial Park Plymouth Meeting, PA
9b	Lawrence Patrick Dolan	Sgt 1st Class	08/15/1889	12/16/1963	Point Marion, PA
48	William Bruno Donahue	Private	08/16/1896	08/14/1954	Walpole, MA
146	Herbert Lewis Donovan	Private First Class	12/20/1898	11/18/1943	Portland, Oregon
4	Harry Samuel Dresser	Sergeant	02/14/1892	02/08/1983	Trempealeau, WI
150	Leroy Robert Edling	Private	04/03/1896	08/01/1948	Schuylkill Haven, PA
103	Bonna Earl Ellis	Wagoner	11/27/1894	06/18/1962	Hobart, OK
187	John Daniel Eriksen	Wagoner	02/27/1889	01/17/1961	Southport, NC
179	James Haslip Field	Wagoner	01/22/1886	03/05/1934
214	John Maxel Fields	Private First Class	12/14/1887	08/02/1939	Humble, TX
183	Bennet Fisher	Corporal	08/19/1891	03/19/1965	Dayton, OH
10b	Leigh Mason Fitch	Sgt 1st Class	09/07/1893	02/25/1984	Rush, NY
122	Rosewell Swift Flower	Corporal	09/06/1892	03/06/1977
155	William Parker Forgie	Private	07/10/1894	12/10/1973	Washington, PA
98	Charles Fern Forsythe	Corporal	03/11/1894	03/10/1950	Keystone Heights, FL
53	William Preston French	Wagoner	12/16/1896	07/30/1951	Evergreen Cemetery Seattle, WA
147	Oscar George Frey	Private First Class	12/14/1894	05/11/1958	Forest Hill Cemetery Duluth, MN
178	Charles Walter Fritts	Private First Class	11/14/1890	07/19/1958	Amarillo, TX
91	George Fyfe	Private First Class	07/31/1895	10/24/1980	Calverton, NY
70	Edward Gambet	Private	11/27/1894	01/26/1985
207	James Henry Gann	Wagoner	12/05/1882	10/05/1958
195	George Theodore Gilbert	Private	08/26/1896	12/07/1968
166	Leo Philip Gillespie	Private	10/01/1893	10/20/1947	Menands, NY
5	Frank Joseph Ginter	Sergeant	11/03/1892	05/12/1974	Rolla, MO
129	John Joseph Grant	Private	02/08/1889	09/30/1950	St Louis, MO
72	Jacob Greenstein	Private	06/16/1893	04/03/1966	Washington Cemetery Brooklyn, NY
71	Elmer Griffin	Private	03/04/1890	09/12/1956	Minneapolis, MN
159	Harold Eugene Hambleton	Private	01/16/1899	07/24/1964	Joseph, Oregon
107	Kerwin Lester Hamme	Private	01/07/1893	05/07/1977	Zions View, PA
73	Walter Russell Hammond	Private	05/06/1896	08/07/1950	Minneapolis, MN
165	Reuben Norton Hanson	Private	04/16/1896	08/07/1966	Minneapolis, MN
163	Frank Edward Harding	Private	02/28/1897	05/15/1980	Madison, WI
26	George Wakefield Harrington	Private	12/31/1890	08/17/1959	East Hartford, CT
153	Manning Coleman Headley	Private	09/16/1892	11/16/1962	Arlington, VA
114	Paul Ephraim Hedeen	Corporal	09/03/1886	04/25/1950	Portland, OR
185	William Walter Hicks	Private First Class	09/02/1888	08/24/1984	Enid, OK
57	Nathaniel Hitchcock	Private	03/22/1888	08/26/1951	Tulare, CA
78	Joseph Leo Hodgkinson	Wagoner	06/08/1896	06/11/1993	San Gabriel, CA
167	Lorenz Peter Holzmann	Private	05/27/1893	12/27/1964	East Farmingdale, NY
59	Louis Charles Horman	Private First Class	03/01/1896	07/01/1951	St Mary’s Cemetery Evergreen Park, IL
11b	Irving Linville Horne	Sgt 1st Class	08/01/1892	04/11/1967
172	Herman Gustave Hornecker	Wagoner	08/03/1889	12/19/1950	East Farmingdale, NY
175	William Aloysius Jacobs	Private First Class	09/02/1888	01/26/1969	Elcho, WI
133	Albert Fletcher Johnson	Wagoner	06/05/1888	11/19/1965	Woodward, OK
6	Albin Leonard Johnson	Sergeant	04/14/1889	12/12/1960	Rockford, IL
16	Lloyd Edward Johnson	Corporal	04/20/1896
211	Ernest Rudolph Johnston	Private	01/24/1895	08/27/1984	Minneapolis, MN
182	James Monroe Jordan	Private First Class	12/15/1893	10/04/1964	Arlington, TX
81	Louis Kara	Private	09/25/1891	03/11/1951
49	Edward Hiram Karg	Private	02/09/1892	Nov 1977
37	Walter Ernest Kasdorf	Private First Class	11/12/1888	10/17/1958	East Farmingdale, NY
95	Frank Everett Kempefer	Private	05/17/1895	11/27/1962	Two Harbors, MN
79	Charles Raymond Kidd	Private	07/30/1890	06/30/1965	Roann, IN
186	Ivan Earnest Kingston	Private First Class	04/04/1890	04/16/1978	Denver, CO
77	Paul Peter Klein	Private First Class	09/02/1895	06/14/1925	Hollidaysburg, PA
104	Fred Frank Knoble	Cook	12/15/1895	06/25/1962
126	Harry James Koch	Wagoner	03/16/1887	05/30/1947	Knob Noster, MO
17	William Christian Kuehn	Corporal	03/12/1893	10/20/1988	Charles City, IA
7	Arthur Frederick Kuehne	Sergeant	06/21/1891	08/26/1945	Acacia Park Norwood, IL
34	Carl Milton Landis	Private	08/20/1895	02/24/1963	Liberty, PA
42	Harold Walcott Lane	Private First Class	03/20/1897	11/08/1985	Danbury, MA
154	Joseph James Lannon	Private	11/26/1895	10/01/1966	Greensburg, PA
115	Harry Moorhead Lanphear	Private First Class	08/08/1890	09/05/1989	Minneapolis, MN
44	Harry Aloysius Larkin	Corporal	02/28/1895	08/02/1975	Pittsburgh, PA
67	Edward Joseph Larson	Private First Class	09/03/1895	07/22/1960	Calvary Cemetery St Paul, MN
206	Ferdinando Laudisi	Corporal	02/07/1896	02/25/1974
12b	John Kingsnorth Lawler	Sgt 1st Class	09/06/1895	11/22/1988
8	Timothy Francis Leary	Sergeant	08/21/1893	04/28/1944	Colma, CA
204	James Marshall Leet	Private	07/30/1892	02/17/1967	Norfolk, VA
64	Joseph Frederic Lein	Private	01/11/1892	10/17/1965
202	Carl Francis Leonard	Private First Class	08/31/1896	07/05/1974	Rochester, NY
56	Royden Reed Lerch	Private	04/23/1894	07/24/1971	East Stroudsburg, PA
82	Charles Clyde Levergood	Private First Class	12/13/1895	04/07/1972	Charlotte, NC
38	Edward Joseph Levesque	Private First Class	04/15/1899	05/22/1949	St Ann’s Cemetery Cranston, RI
13b	John Albert Lieber	Sgt 1st Class	03/21/1892	02/09/1940	Hartford City, IN
5a	Walter Sydney Lloyd	2nd Lt	08/07/1891	05/16/1946	Ephrata, PA
160	Edmund Leo Lohergan	Corporal	01/11/1894	11/26/1948	East Farmingdale, NY
176	Horace Raymond Longshore	Corporal	11/05/1894	02/27/1983	Muncie, IN
152	Elbridge Lennon Lord	Corporal	02/24/1890	05/09/1975
43	Rudolph Ludwig	Private	04/01/1896	09/29/1963	Milford, PA
1	Leroy Gilbert Lugar	Supply Sergeant	04/24/1893	01/01/1963	Roslyn, PA
9	Paul Francis Lukens	Sergeant	04/17/1898	06/05/1979	Upperville, VA
161	Walfred Lund	Private	02/13/1896	02/08/1985	Minneapolis, MN
164	Maurice Theodore Lundgren	Wagoner	12/18/1895	09/18/1985	Minneapolis, MN
121	Charles Wolfe Lupovicz	Private	01/09/1894	02/17/1954
10	William John Lux	Sergeant	11/21/1895	06/13/1977	St Paul, MN
4b	Roy Fritz Lynch	Master Engr Jr Gr	08/24/1895	12/01/1953	Lubbock, TX
136	Everett Beyer Maddox	Corporal	07/22/1892	07/05/1974	Brentwood, MD
93	James Aloysius Markham	Private	06/21/1891	02/02/1957	San Bruno, CA
19	James McAtamney	Bugler	02/13/1895	02/01/1929	Pittsburgh, PA
76	Edward Cornelius McCarthy	Private First Class	09/01/1878	02/17/1950
194	Bernard Francis McCoy	Private First Class	05/10/1888	01/18/1953	Hazleton, PA
134	John Swanson McKinlay	Private	12/10/1896	12/22/1967
24	Charles Caswell Merriam	Private	09/29/1890	01/06/1967
205	Walter Michels	Private First Class	04/17/1895	04/15/1970	Evergreen Park, IL
47	Clarence Ellsworth Miller	Private	11/08/1893	01/27/1963	Sunset Memorial Park Somerton, PA
203	Clarence Philip Miller	Private	07/09/1891	12/03/1972	Hatfield, PA
50	William S Miller	Private	11/22/1891	05/28/1941	Northumberland, PA
168	William Charles Mitteer	Corporal	05/25/1892	05/30/1965	Bath, NY
96	Frank Xavier Moloney	Private	12/07/1894	12/02/1947	Calvary Cemetery New York, NY
135	Benjamin Kelley Monger	Private	04/04/1896	12/26/1968	Elkton, VA
131	Rocco Antonio Morra	Private	12/26/1893	06/16/1977	New Bedford, MA
14b	Charles Emery Mulliken	Sgt 1st Class	02/11/1893	10/02/1965
212	Edgar Stephen Mullineaux	Private	01/20/1898	02/07/1958	San Diego, CA
151	Harry Leonard Munson	Private	04/18/1900	04/02/1933	Mille Lacs County, MN
1b	Percy Edgar Nead	Master Engr Sr Gr	12/25/1895	04/20/1994
66	Harry A Neely	Corporal	05/08/1897	10/31/1927	Leavenworth, KS
74	Howard Orlando Nelson	Corporal	02/27/1896	10/12/1989	Minneapolis, MN
120	Edgar C North	Cook	11/16/1888	02/10/1960	Monson, MA
15b	Harold Miller Norton	Sgt 1st Class	01/31/1896	09/12/1949	Clifton, NJ
181	Paul Alphonse Nyman	Private	04/29/1891	06/27/1966	Minneapolis, MN
128	Floyd Jones O’Connell	Corporal	05/22/1889	01/03/1937	San Francisco, CA
23	Carl Oscar Olson	Private	08/05/1892	05/17/1928	Maple Park, IL
177	Robert Lonnie Pace	Private First Class	02/18/1888	06/09/1956	Tippecanoe Township, IN
199	Alfred Edward Parker	Corporal	09/18/1894	04/20/1967	Melrose, MA
41	John Howard Pate	Private First Class	02/06/1887	01/23/1961	Syracuse, NY
209	Algot Paulson	Private First Class	08/10/1886	11/30/1967	Two Harbors, MN
137	Samuel Pederson	Private	10/30/1886	08/31/1953	Ostrander, MN
16b	John Wesley Perkins	Sgt 1st Class	12/12/1892	10/06/1971	Talladega, AL
58	Lloyd Edward Peterson	Corporal	10/30/1893	12/24/1965	Rosehill Cemetery Chicago, IL
60	Robert G Peterson	Private	01/31/1897	11/14/1986
141	Raymond Mahle Pfeiffer	Private	02/21/1896	12/01/1987	Maplewood, MN
130	Edgar Moody Pittenger	Wagoner	10/01/1895	01/14/1978	Louisville, KY
55	Harry Clifton Pittsley	Private	02/24/1893	07/06/1936	Acushnet Cemetery Acushnet, MA
17b	Harry Prever	Sgt 1st Class	09/02/1892	06/26/1944	San Bruno, CA
29	Frank Joseph Przybylski	Wagoner	12/06/1894	04/19/1943	St Stanislaus Cemetery Baltimore, MD
89	Arthur Herman Raasch	Private First Class	12/17/1893	11/22/1975	Saint Paul, MN
117	James Stanley Ray	Private	07/12/1894	04/22/1972	Huckabay, TX
69	Raymond S Redmond	Private	01/15/1899	07/04/1961	Dubuque, IA
145	James Michael Regan	Private	03/25/1891	11/11/1967	Minneapolis, MN
62	John Leonard Reimer	Private First Class	12/24/1895	10/15/1940	Maplewood, MN
88	Charles Rutherford Reynolds	Private	02/10/1891	06/10/1967	Viewland Cemetery Rotterdam, NY
140	David McKinney Reynolds	Private	09/18/1894	11/03/1927	Minneapolis, MN
11	Hiram Allen Rice	Sergeant	11/05/1892	02/19/1979	Evansville, IN
105	John Mortimer Richardson	Private	06/24/1894	05/08/1960
12	Herbert Spencer Roberts	Sergeant	05/28/1895	10/09/1959	Kinderhook, NY
51	Karl Theodore Romie	Corporal	02/09/1887	12/18/1971
86	Israel Rosenfeld	Private	07/30/1892	02/24/1951	Brooklyn, NY
169	Herman Rosenthal	Private	01/26/1896	09/04/1967	Pensacola, FL
31	John Roseth	Private	12/30/1895	03/31/1958	Edmore, ND
45	Lawrence Milan Ross	Wagoner	08/08/1898	10/01/1954	Lawrenceville, NY
99	Claude Calvin Salem	Private	09/23/1889	12/14/1944	Myerstown, PA
156	William Warren Sanford	Private	03/24/1889	09/08/1937	Rose, NY
119	George Schall	Private First Class	10/10/1893	01/30/1953	Brooklyn, NY
68	Maurice Robert Schwartz	Private First Class	09/25/1895	02/14/1928
6b	Robert Paul Scullin	1st Sgt	08/04/1897	11/07/1982
157	John Edward Seckler	Private	11/17/1896	04/18/1955	Rye, NY
13	Richard Norman Seddon	Sergeant	02/08/1895	09/02/1960
208	Maurice Sherman	Wagoner
142	Harold George Sinks	Private First Class	03/25/1894	01/31/1969	Minneapolis, MN
14	James Francis Sloope	Sergeant	10/10/1888	03/27/1932	Charlotte, NC
111	Arthur George Smith	Wagoner	05/10/1896	03/04/1966	Chicago, IL
35	Percy Coleman Smith	Private First Class	12/20/1894	04/12/1960	East Farmingdale, NY
139	Harry Thomas Sowersby	Private	08/28/1890
75	Edward Alfred Steckmeyer	Wagoner	08/10/1890	02/28/1966	Minneapolis, MN
2a	Reinhold Fred Stock	1st Lt	11/10/1893	01/21/1952	Taft, CA
116	William M Stosberg	Private First Class	08/27/1895	01/06/1971	Okmulgee, OK
127	Theodore Strahlow	Private	02/16/1891	06/05/1973
110	George Clark Street	Wagoner	02/05/1893	06/27/1942	Fort Worth, TX
102	Walter Gray Summers	Private	12/28/1889	11/27/1939	Rock Island, IL
52	Earl Julian Taylor	Wagoner	08/28/1896	01/30/1961	Kettering, OH
101	Nels August Thoren	Private	04/03/1896	07/16/1949	Nehawka, NE
170	Lawrence Augustine Torpey	Private First Class	03/13/1894	04/06/1990	Hoosick Falls, NY
149	Roy Fortuna Tschumpert	Wagoner	07/02/1895	07/15/1972	Compton, CA
20	Curtis Fredrick Turnock	Corporal	03/13/1893	11/22/1950	South Bend, IN
100	Jacob Franklin Unger	Private	10/19/1887	04/06/1936	Antietam Church Cemetery Waynesboro, PA
180	Robert F Van Blaricum	Private	09/25/1888	07/06/1946	Columbus, OH
39	Russell Lee Van Norman	Private	11/22/1894	10/17/1960	Bethlehem, PA
15	Harrison Waite	Sergeant	04/16/1897	03/24/1967	Greenwood, VA
32	Melvin Luther Walt	Private	05/26/1895	07/06/1957	Birdsboro, PA
25	Reid Harris Ward	Private	09/12/1889	07/20/1950	Hartsville, TN
36	Harold Elmer Warren	Corporal	01/16/1893	07/04/1939	Riverside Cemetery Ironwood, MI
85	Robert Henry Watt	Private	01/26/1893	11/11/1951	New Carlisle, IN
65	Leo Harold Wertheimer	Private	03/04/1896
21	Frank J White	Private	03/18/1891	05/09/1970	Menard, TX
173	William Howard White	Private First Class	11/10/1893	01/02/1980	Minneapolis, MN
210	Thomas John Wilk	Private First Class	01/07/1896	01/21/1971
87	Alphonse Thomas Willette	Private	05/05/1895	08/05/1976
190	William Ashley Willis	Private First Class	12/18/1892	10/24/1945	Kernersville, NC
5b	Harold Kepford Wilson	Master Engr Jr Gr	08/23/1895	11/04/1983	Grundy Center, IA
61	George Loney Woodruff	Private	05/08/1895	03/28/1932	Washington, PA
28	Ernest Lloyd Wright	Corporal	12/26/1885	02/20/1978	Cambridge Springs, PA
18	Charles Estel Young	Corporal	10/04/1897	05/25/1994	Lamar Heights, MO
18b	James Thomas Young Jr	Sgt 1st Class	09/10/1897	05/25/1970	Fort Mill, SC
174	Jacob Zayac	Wagoner	07/20/1895	01/21/1969	Southfield, MI
196	Raymond Albert Zeiher	Private First Class	06/10/1887	11/25/1931	Pomeroy, OH

The images below are the US Army Transport Lists for the USS Nansemond, which transported Company G of the 56th Engineers from St. Nazaire, France, to the United States on February 25, 1919.

Source of US Army Transport Lists: www.ancestry.com/search/collections/narawwitroops; Lists of Incoming Passengers, 1917-1938. Textual records. 360 Boxes. NAI: 6234465. Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, 1774-1985, Record Group 92. The National Archives at College Park, Maryland.

Source of 56th Engineer rosters: Macomber and Brunet (1920) The 56th Engineers in the World War. Albany, The Brandon Printing Co.