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1st Lieutenant Jouett P. Singleton
5th Machine Gun Battalion, 2nd Division, AEF
5th Machine Gun Battalion, 2nd Division, AEF
The image of the Lieutenant you see on the left is Jouett P. Singleton, 5th
Singleton was killed in France on June 22, 1918 by a fragment of artillery shell.
The hospital log described Singleton's wound as a "Saporotomy sucking
wound of chest and furrowed wound of liver. Some blood in abdomen.
Wound in liver packed. Packed below liver." The complete war letters of
Singleton will be included in the first publication of the A.E.F. Memorial Project.
The last line of the last letter Singleton wrote foreshadowed his death, "They
don't use trenches any more it appears. The open grass is fine but it is bad
because of lack of protection from Artillery."
Research has revealed that Singleton was buried at La Ferte-sous-Jouarre
followed between his family and the U.S. Government on where his final
resting place would be. On November 18th, 1921 his body was disinterred
and moved to the Belleau Wood Cemetery. Singleton's body was described
as "badly decomposed, recognition impossible." See below this section for
an example of research obtained about his burial at the National Archives.
In the decades following WWI, the United States government offered to pay for
the passage of mothers of killed soldiers, Gold Star Mothers, to travel to
France to visit the graves of their sons. Research conducted by members of
the A.E.F. Memorial Project also located Mrs. Singleton's picture on her Gold
Star Mothers identification from the 1930's. Move your cursor over the image of
Mrs. Singleton in 1898 with her two sons (Jouett and his brother) at left to see
the 1930's image.
The future display on Singleton will showcase the letters and research from a
variety of national and international sources.
Singleton was killed in France on June 22, 1918 by a fragment of artillery shell.
The hospital log described Singleton's wound as a "Saporotomy sucking
wound of chest and furrowed wound of liver. Some blood in abdomen.
Wound in liver packed. Packed below liver." The complete war letters of
Singleton will be included in the first publication of the A.E.F. Memorial Project.
The last line of the last letter Singleton wrote foreshadowed his death, "They
don't use trenches any more it appears. The open grass is fine but it is bad
because of lack of protection from Artillery."
Research has revealed that Singleton was buried at La Ferte-sous-Jouarre
followed between his family and the U.S. Government on where his final
resting place would be. On November 18th, 1921 his body was disinterred
and moved to the Belleau Wood Cemetery. Singleton's body was described
as "badly decomposed, recognition impossible." See below this section for
an example of research obtained about his burial at the National Archives.
In the decades following WWI, the United States government offered to pay for
the passage of mothers of killed soldiers, Gold Star Mothers, to travel to
France to visit the graves of their sons. Research conducted by members of
the A.E.F. Memorial Project also located Mrs. Singleton's picture on her Gold
Star Mothers identification from the 1930's. Move your cursor over the image of
Mrs. Singleton in 1898 with her two sons (Jouett and his brother) at left to see
the 1930's image.
The future display on Singleton will showcase the letters and research from a
variety of national and international sources.
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