John Ferguson, US Army

[brodie]

A relative called John Ferguson appears on the Great Bernera (Isle of Lewis) war memorial. A fellow family researcher told me that there is a story in that branch of the family that John was actually in the US Army at the time of his death. I have found a US Draft Registration document on Ancestry which is 99% certain to be my man, so it looks like the story is true. He was living in Montana at the time of the draft (1917).

Does anyone know if there is any website where one can research WW1 war dead for the USA? I would like to find out where and when he died etc.

[johnny_doyle]

there's a reference to him being slightly wounded :

http://www.genealogybuff.com/misc/ww1/il-w...sualties174.htm

http://distantcousin.com/Military/WWI/NYTC...918/Jun/02.html

I suspect that this is your man's grave reference though the date of death is one day out from the date on the family gravestone

Aisne-Marne American Cemetery

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?p...id=9211527&

[Ken S.]

From American Battle Monuments Commission:

J. Ferguson

Private First Class, U.S. Army

16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division

Entered the Service from: Montana

Died: July 19, 1918

Missing in Action or Buried at Sea

Tablets of the Missing at Aisne-Marne American Cemetery

Belleau, France

(http://www.abmc.gov/search/)

Many counties produced a memorial book for the war, and often the fallen were given a brief write up and perhaps even a photo.