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Feature Articles - The Rainbow Warriors

Front cover of "The Price of Our Heritage" by Wilfred E. Robb Detailed below are the names of men from Iowa who served during World War One, the so-called 'Rainbow Warriors' of the U.S. 168 Brigade.

A year after the war was concluded, in 1919, the Reverend Wilfred E. Robb wrote a tribute to the men of Iowa who served in France, in which he offered biographical sketches of many of the men involved, along with photographs of each.

Virgil Reiter - who can be contacted at the e-mail address below - has generously offered to provide those details that are available for each of the men listed below.

Below are two sample entries from the book indicative of the material available for the men whose names are listed directly below the two entries.


Andrew M ReymerAndrew M Reymer, Private, Headquarters Company

Died February 17, 1918.  Buried at Neufchateau, Base Hospital No. 66.  Son of Mrs. Anna Reymer, McKeesport, Pa.

While going for the first time to the front the troops were moved in the usual manner in box cars.

Reymer and a number of others got off the cars and ran up and down to warm themselves; in attempting to re-board the moving cars he fell under the wheels and both legs were cut off.  He died the next day.



James Edward WhalenJames Edward Whalen, Private First Class, Company E

Killed July 26, 1918, Chateau Thierry in Foret de fere.  Grave No. 7-A.

Whalen enlisted in the first Iowa guard and was transferred to Company E in August 1917.

He served throughout the Lorraine campaign and the battle of Champagne.  He was a good soldier and well liked by all of his comrades.

Relative's address, Mrs. Mary C. Whalen, 612 S.E. 4th St., Des Moines, Iowa.



Men Who Served with 168 Brigade, Iowa,
the Rainbow Warriors

Ernest Bennett
John Loper
James Lincoln
Winfred Robb
Mathew Tinley
Charles Pritchard
Clyde Barber
Harry Wooten
Thomas Arklese
William Johnson
James Mattingly
Earl Coons
Ralph Miller
George Truax
St. Clair Willcox
Herbert Schroeder
Herman Roose
Norbert Wilson
Scott McCormick
John Wasmer
George McSorley
Adolph Fortsch
George Bullard
Andrew Reymer
Edward Worth
Harry Calhoun
Bert Smith
Harlan Parker
Lewis Mayland
Harry McHenry
William Smith
Ray Walden
Walter Porsch
James Wedding
Dean Parish
Glenn Pederson
Albert Hoschler
Edward Nash
Clifford Worder
Donald Mac Rae
Ira Rogers
Merrill Morrison
Robert Clausen
Mufford Breese
Isaac Davis
Guy Worley
Byron Van Raden
Alva Eaton
albert Behmer
Edwin Todd
Ted Butler
Henry Fall
Fred Turner
Cecil Conley
Clifford Stevens
Charles McCord
Daneil Bracelin
Fred Brummett
Harry Anderson
Marvin Dunn
Ronald Loban
Russell Hughes
LLoyd Morrill
Elmer Spears
LLoyd Culp
Ernest Stafford
Edward Monahan
Girolamo Viscusi
Frederick Young
Floyd Parkinson
Walter Schafer
Elmer Zuschlag
Howard Mowery
John Jennings
William Lyon
Harvey Rimel
Irwin McConnelee
Francis McILvaine
Clem Hobbs
Roy Eaton
Carl Caviness
Frank Brown
Earl Shaw
Jesse Salsbury
John Bellak
Fred Strong
Joseph Pfab
Everette Powers
maurice Powers
LLoyd Getteys
Segurd Anderson
Eugene Ford
Bruce Croft
Carl Beaversdorf
Oscar Baker
Joseph Downs
Everett Davis
Fred Davis
Clarence Green
Merle Nauman
Authur McCullough
Edward Fleur
Nicolo Alongo
Jesse Tillman
August Schuster
Frank Orr
Clement Schuster
Everette Hann
Claude Baken
Claude Quinn
Otis Craig
William Saunders
Clyde Gustine
Ivan Sweeny
Samuel Hazard
Gladstone Hewitt
Russell Marshall
Thomas Larson
Gordon Perry
William Staley
Carl Lechner
Wayne Huxtable
Ray Craun
John Price
Hio Walterman
William Lindsay
Harry Chambers
Michael Houchin
Earl King
Joseph Cahill
Leslie Morrow
Alonzo Baldwin
Hubert Blayney
Merton Hair
George O'Laughlin
Miles McBeth
Hedley Cooper
Halliday Smith
Max Hubbell
Ed Veasey
Harry Kendall
Authur Biesenthal
Clarence Bebee
Harvey Cook
Louis Weiss
August Van Oyen
Robert Reed
Snedden Winter
Patrick Walsh
Ernest Foote
Ario Pickrel
John Meyer
Joe Kemble
Vernon Johnson
Herbert Hitchcock
Wm. Schupp
Archie Redden
Arthur Bimbo
William Short
Phillip Plaster
John Short
Arthur Peach
Joseph Semik
Allen Peterson
Vernon Rodgers
Eugene Thomas
Raymond Smith
Wallace Luddington
Rollyn Leonard
Albert Karkella
Fred Wurst
Louis O'Dell
Albert Killiam
Tremble  Curry
Russ Richardson
Charles Rots
Leon Beatty
Howard Graham
Ernest Wilcox
George Weatherill
LLoyd Head
Louis Koebrick
Henry Dailey
Paul Noel
Charles Krumrey
Marshall Shannon
George Scott
John Harrington
William Nolan
Russell Rickermann
Fred Dunn
Joe Thuman
Carl Cook
Leonard Fuller
Glen Smith
Clarence Wenlock
Walter Lewin
Milton Fulghum
Alex Rasmusson
Arnold Wright
David Davis
Carl McGlothlen
Lester Purcell
James Scott
William Ackles
Ralph Davis
Albert Ewin
John Glines
Joseph Zendzian
Ernest Stafford
Charley Kidder
Charles Harris
Henry Christensen
Guy Rison
Luis Gonzales
Lorin Hollister
Ernest Van De Mark
Henry Thompson
Henry Toepfer
William Taylor
James Reed
Irven Parker
Ben Brown
Guy Moe
James Quinn
Edward Whalen
Edward Beers
Joseph Norris
Nathaniel McBride
James Kooistra
Helof Holm
Eivend Hamre
Raymond Beick
Delmer Webb
Basil Blevins
Basil Cowell
James Gallagher
James Nicodemus
Thomas George
Clarence Parcel
Miles Ragland
Riley See
William Sutton
Carl Barr
Alton Bellomy
Earl Mayers
Charles Bunyan
Jim Baggs
Guy Bosley
Sullivan Flynn
Cecil Cummings
Clifford Johnson
Elmer Hoffman
Ben Gelder
John Kania
tony Valles
Quincy Mills
Charles Marks
Oscar peterson
Harry Marson
Harry Arnold
Solomon Rubel
Ralph Grammer
LeRoy Dailey
Carl Hillgardner
Claude Rankin
James Vaughn
Charles Peterson
Ernest Merkle
Allen Hanft
Merle McCunn
Charles Hudson
Lawrence Gridley
Clarence Elliott
Joseph O'Boyle
Floyd Jackson
John Graham
Leo Kenyon
Howard Elliot
John Francis
Kenneth Moore
Howard South
robert Snelson
mathew Spautz
William Shoemaker
Clarence Foster
Carcia Gilmore
Irwin Sears
Robert Gress
William Hamilton
Oliver Holmes
Eilert Auen
Thomas Evans
Melvin Crandall
Methias Higgs
William Pieper
Carroll Smith
Edward Kops
Edward Haarer
Emil Johnson
Arthur Kirchoff
Pierce Flowers
Author Thompson
Tom Leonard
Dewey McAvoy
William Lochrie
Floyd Wallace
James Smith
Fred Hayes
John Jarvis
Harry Hart
Sol Morris
Glenn Morrow
Wilfred Bauder
Owen Barrett
Donald Blakeley
Raymond Fuller
Howard Martin
Perry Newton
Clayton Urry
Morris Dunn
Lawrence Cooper
William Bailey
Harry Clemens
Edward Claffey
Henry Chriscinske
John Flannigan
Leonard Anderson
Ira Holman
Orville Mean
Christopher Timothy
Vinton Bradshaw
Martin Triplow
Willard Hazzard
Harry Hammons
Louis Wenieke
George Duffield
William Miller
Paul Radford
Edward Ripple
Henry Grasshoff
Maurice Stephenson
Marion Campbell
Frank Norris
Henry Beatty
Paul Coffin
Clyde Cushman
John Euteneur
William Pierce
Carl Jarvis
John Tudor
William Wieder
LeRoy Creaton
David Jesperson
Anthony Walsh
Harold Shaffer
Leonidus Munday
John Van Veen
Leslie Haxton
Heath Noble
Orville Winter
George Baker
Frank Carson
Floyd Mathis
William Beasley
Emmett Collins
Melvin Baird
Chas. Hartshorn
Howard Turnbull
Paul Dixon
Alva Burgess
Victor Frist
Leo Keck
Donald Porter
William Swan
Eugene Harbrecht
Eddy Hurlbert
Laverne Gitzy
Myer Berkoff
John Mee
Omar Shearer
Charles Grube
Henry Hopp
John Kelly
Clarence Shurtz
Clell Hiatt
Bernard Gudell
Edward Haut
Frank O'Brien
Arthur Marks
Thomas Way
Joseph Gourley
Frank Keech
Charles Burks
Charles Cunningham
Leslie Darling
Albert Lien
William Maloney
LLoyd Waechter
William Olson
Ned Rogers
John Peterka
Charles Laront
Joseph Eichelsdorfer
George Lannen
Carl Dyvad
George Stock
Charles Nye
Herbert Remondet
Orville Woodin
Denzel Wagner
Chas. Miller
Douglas Green
Carlyle Prichard
Hilmer Sielaff
Harold Ross
Reiley Miller
Wesley Coverdale
John Livingston
Robert White
Fred Cox
Izador Chopp
Richard Cook
Forest Ufford
John Farmer
Frank Blaul
Carl Gillen
Elmer Bruce
Emory Irwin
Harley Young
Chauncy Barr
Clifford Litz
Sanford Severson
Donald Sparr
Ira Moorehouse
John Ellis
Alva Gripp
Brodie Cownie
Rennie Henry
Leo Atwater
Laurance Jobe
Ernest Giese
Walter Meyer
Ben Adkins
karl Wheeler
Frank Champion
John Currie
John Cox
William Doty
Leo McHugh
Estill Powers
Herman Nelson
Norman Sonneman
William Coon
Abel Clark
Paul Denlinger
Elmer Doocy
Everett McManus
Raymond Loos
Leslie Huddleston
Joe Gibson
John Easton
Michael Erschens
Glen Morgan
Mahlon Wallace
Carl Anderson
Frank Wilkins
Edward Wells
Bryant Badger
Max Hiemer
John Kerberg
Dimitrios Stratikopulos
Martin DeWolf
Lawrence Gilbert
William Groat
Charles Smith
Dave Walen
John Edwards
Frank Maloch
George Hardinger
Frank Nallis
Noel Harrison
John Kalinec
George Stewart
William Bath
Clifford Dimmitt
Charles Bordeau
Paul Adams
William Heidenreich
Cleon Jones
Robert Casebolt
Don Killen
Albert Wallraf
Bob Thribby
John Marshall
John Collins
Gilbert Woods
William Doyle
James Dispain
Samuel Swift
John Glisson
Bryan Robinson
Noah Whisemount
Willis Woodward
Francisco LeMos
Alfred Wolcott
Byron Anderson
William Boyce
John Bloodworth
Vernon Salor
Ira Statterfield
Charles Barnes
Ernest Johnson
Virden Leonard
L. Lewis
Kenneth Mueller
Nicholas Belifore
Oakley Cobb
Gerald Bowen
Ignac Moczygemba
Lyle Rickard
Claude Swisher
Edmund Lamey
Dempsey Haynes
Theodore Loetz
Walter Nieswiadomy
Charlie Polton
Marvin Arnold
Alfred Abegg
C. Johnson
Charles Lint
George Wilkenson
harold Benge
John Pittman
Lynn Crawford
Thomas Maynard
Albert Walton
Harold Miner
Earl Conaway
J. Scrivnor
Robert Locke
Leo McFadden
Francis Webster
Floyd Newton
John Martin
John Lawler
Willie Kington
Michael Gibbons
Tramble Dye
Glen Gray
Earl Lisle
Lee Green
Joseph Wall
Edward Voss
Leland Scott
Peter Savoy
William Bell
Enerott Creasey
James Galligher
Randolph Lamb
Lester Sharp
Frank Parrish
William Nunnally
H. Lewis
Alex Haggquist
William Hime
Ira Kieth
Mateo Martinez
John Bates
max Schiwetz
John Gramley
Nels Thompson
Lawrence Sattler
William May
Donald Marsh
Harold Pouch
Nathan Harvey
Peter Hansen
Oscar Nelson
Robert Gillett
William Shawalt
A. Stolleis
Joe Pinso
Carl Peterson
AAron Owens
Bert Nicley
Domingo Mesa
George Herbel
John Burke
William Baker
William Austin
John Farraday
Sidney Baker
LeRoy Craig
Walter Butcher
Philip Burroughs
Earl Nelson
Lester Angel
Louis Dilla
Henry Gillespie
Earl Dixon
Joseph Kohuth
Gilbert Nordman
Edward Hawley
Kay Tusing
Martini Signoretta
John Madison
Stanis Chapas
Leo McNamara
Charles Espy
Ernestr Morrow
Arthur Brandt
Herman Fell
Teddy Ziddnos
Clifford Wilson
Ralph Kline
Govan Quinn
Wayland Gardner
Merwyn Smith
Charles Garey
Robert Phillip
Charles Wamsley
Ralph Grover
Clarence Busick
Hugh Kerns
Evald Rodin
John Wiley
Harold Peterson
Earl Herbert
Alvin Hench
Thomas Burkes
William Payne
Sterling Moore
Elmer Nord
Olivo Torson
Daniel Motter
Robert Higgins
Harold McGee
Champ Jones
Hollis Page
Norman Oliver
Earl Dunham
Loren Davis
George Jones
George Vaughn
Fred Irvin
Glenn Rhodes
William McMurray
Thomas Langan
Peter Gartner
James Whalen
Carl Cook
August Nelson
Thomas Reese
Harold Glover
George Hawkins
Patrick Shuckrow
Louie Turner
Frank Blocklinger
Raymond Burke
F. Hitchins
Martin Djonne
Clark Thatcher
Oscar Althar
Claude Stanley
Henry Bunch

For information on any of the above names or on the story of the Rainbow Warriors contact Virgil Reiter at PCREITER@aol.com.

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