March 4 Army Casualty List Has Pvt. Varner of Greensboro as Dead of Disease

From The Commonwealth, Scotland Neck, N.C., March 4, 1919

Small Number of Casualties

By Associated Press

Washington, March 4—Four lists of casualties were issued today by the War Department giving the names of 404 men, of which North Carolina is represented with nine men, as follows:

Private William A. Varner of Greensboro, died of disease.

Corporal William Mathews of Lilington, wounded to a degree undetermined.

Privates Robert Lindley of Snow Camp, Lowland Pierce of Hallsboro, William H. Somers of Wilkesboro, and Jessie E. Van Dyke of Cherryville, wounded slightly.

Sergeant William Parker of Lexington, Corporal Harvey L. Cranfell of Winston Salem and Privates William Ring of Mount Airy and Clyde Tesh of Thomasville, wounded to a degree undetermined.

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