Grave of Walter Bertram Riggle in France

Photograph

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Greene Connections

Name/Title

Grave of Walter Bertram Riggle in France

Entry/Object ID

2019.20.31

Description

Temporary grave of Walter Bertram Riggle, Lieutenant, Company K, 110th Infantry, 28th Division. Killed in action 29 July 1918, Cierges, France. Soldiers were buried in France until transport was able to be arranged for removal back to the United States or permanent burial in newly established American Cemeteries in Europe. Walter's body was brought home and reinterred following a military funeral on 4 June 1922 in Centennial Cemetery, Aleppo Township, Greene, Pennsylvania. Original, candid.

Collection

Lewis Perry and Nora Etta (Kuhn) Riggle Collection

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1918

Place

Location

France / Picardie / Cierges

Lexicon

Search Terms

Cemeteries--Tombstones, Military, Rain Day Boys, Riggle family, United States. Army. Infantry Division, 28th. Regiment, 110th. Company K., Veterans--World War I

Other Names and Numbers

Other Number

RIGL-AN001-0031

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Riggle, Walter Bertram [1894-1918]

Web Links and URLs

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Provenance

Provenance Detail

Riggle Series - Lewis Perry and Nora Etta (Kuhn) Riggle Collection

Notes

The Lewis Perry and Nora Etta (Kuhn) Riggle Collection was passed from Lewis Perry Riggle and his wife, Nora Etta (Kuhn) Riggle, to their son Karl Wayne Riggle and his wife, Anna Geraldine (Whipkey) Riggle, to their daughter, Marcene (Riggle) Schutz, to her niece, Paula (Riggle) Whitfill who presently owns and has digitized the collection. Paula (Riggle) Whitfill and her aunt Joyce (Riggle) Hoover collaborated to share selected items from the collection with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Archives Project in 2018. Source Citation: Temporary grave of Walter Bertram Riggle, Lieutenant, Company K, 110th Infantry, 28th Division, killed in action 29 July 1918, Cierges, France; item no. RIGL-AN001-0031, Lewis Perry and Nora Etta (Kuhn) Riggle Collection, shared by Paula (Riggle) Whitfill and her aunt Joyce (Riggle) Hoover, Greene Connections Archives Project (www.GreeneConnections.com).