| Established
on 14 October 1918 in an area captured by
the US 32nd Division, the Meuse-Argonne
American Cemetery is located east of the
village of Romagne-sous-Montfaucon in the
Meuse region of northeastern France near
the border with Belgium. The cemetery
contains graves of 14,246, including 486
unknown soldiers, and panels on the walls
of the Memorial Chapel record the names
of another 954 missing.
Among
those soldiers from Collinsville,
Illinois who were laid to rest here are
Sergeant Frank Stucker who had been
editor of the Collinsville Herald and
Pvt. Bernard T. Rissi who had been
drafted. Pvt. Andrew Karwelat is among
those listed on the Tablets of the
Missing." All were killed in action
during the Argonne Offensive.
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