| Situated
½ mile southwest of the village of Bony,
France and about 120 miles northeast of
Paris, the Somme American Cemetery and
Memorial is the resting place of 1844
soldiers and 138 unknowns. Most of these brave
men lost their lives while serving in
American units attached to British Armies
or in the operations near Cantigny during
World War I.
The
"Wall of the Missing" bears the
names of 333 Americans whose remains were
never recovered or identified, but who
heroically gave their lives in the
service of their country.
Humphrey
L. Evatt, of Collinsville, Illinois is
among those men laid to rest here. He was
a student at Barnes medical college and
had enlisted in Base Hospital Unit No.
21, made up of St. Louis medical students
and physicians. He had left for France on
May 16 and was in the same contingent as Edgar
Hanvey, also of Collinsville.
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