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Paul E. Maxey from Oakland City, Indiana, Gibson county.
Parents: Elmer Maxey
Service era: Post World War I
Military history: Battery D, 139th Field Artillery
Date of death: Sunday, August 13, 1939
Death details: Killed instantly at Fort Knox, Kentucky when a fust for chemical shell, which he was handling, was detonated. He and others were standing together while examining a fuse charged with fulminate of mercury.
Cemetery: Montgomery in Oakland City
Source: Princeton Daily Clarion
Roy Maxey, age 21, from Oakland City, Indiana, Gibson county.
Parents: Elmer Maxey
Service era: Post World War I
Military history: Battery D, 139th Field Artillery
Date of death: Sunday, August 13, 1939
Death details: Killed instantly at Fort Knox, Kentucky when a fust for chemical shell, which he was handling, was detonated. He and others were standing together while examining a fuse charged with fulminate of mercury.
Cemetery: Montgomery in Oakland City
Source: Princeton Daily Clarion
Willis Snow from Elberfeld, Indiana, Warrick county.
Service era: Post World War I
Military history: Battery D, 139th Field Artillery
Date of death: Sunday, August 13, 1939
Death details: Killed instantly at Fort Knox, Kentucky when a fust for chemical shell, which he was handling, was detonated. He and others were standing together while examining a fuse charged with fulminate of mercury.
Cemetery: Barnett Chapel near Elberfeld
Source: Princeton Daily Clarion
John R. Jones, age 21, from Gibson, Indiana, Princeton county.
Parents: Robert Jones
Spouse: Married
Children: Son
Service era: Post World War I
Military history: Battery D, 139th Field Artillery
Date of death: Sunday, August 13, 1939
Death details: Killed instantly at Fort Knox, Kentucky when a fust for chemical shell, which he was handling, was detonated. He and others were standing together while examining a fuse charged with fulminate of mercury.
Cemetery: Maple Hill in Princeton
Source: Princeton Daily Clarion
Arthur Jr. McCarty, age 17, from Gibson, Indiana, Princeton county.
Parents: Mary McCarty
Service era: Post World War I
Schools: Princeton High
Military history: Battery D, 139th Field Artillery
Date of death: Sunday, August 13, 1939
Death details: Killed instantly at Fort Knox, Kentucky when a fust for chemical shell, which he was handling, was detonated. He and others were standing together while examining a fuse charged with fulminate of mercury.
Cemetery: Columbia Church in Princeton
Source: Princeton Daily Clarion
Arthur Fay from Omaha, Nebraska.
Service era: Post World War I
Military history: Company F, 17th Infantry, station at Fort Omaha
Date of death: Saturday, January 24, 1925
Death details: Shot and instantly killed in Omaha when he and another soldier were caught holding up a grocery store.
Source: Fresno Morning Republican (1925)
Norman Kelley from Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
Service era: Post World War I
Military history: Company F, 17th Infantry, station at Fort Omaha
Date of death: Saturday, January 24, 1925
Death details: Shot and instantly killed in Omaha when he and another soldier were caught holding up a grocery store.
Source: Fresno Morning Republican (1925)
Arthur Fay from Omaha, Nebraska.
Service era: Post World War I
Military history: Company F, 17th Infantry, station at Fort Omaha
Date of death: Saturday, January 24, 1925
Death details: Shot and instantly killed in Omaha when he and another soldier were caught holding up a grocery store.
Source: Fresno Morning Republican (1925)
Norman Kelley from Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
Service era: Post World War I
Military history: Company F, 17th Infantry, station at Fort Omaha
Date of death: Saturday, January 24, 1925
Death details: Shot and instantly killed in Omaha when he and another soldier were caught holding up a grocery store.
Source: Fresno Morning Republican (1925)
George Engel from Easton, Pennsylvania, Northampton county.
Service era: Post World War I
Military history: Headquarters Company, 16th Infantry Brigade.
Date of death: Wednesday, September 3, 1924
Death details: Killed in the collapse of the York Road bridge over the Gunpowder River at Wiseburg while returning to Fort Howard, Maryland
Source: Baltimore Sun 1924)