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Données personnelles John Joseph Brannon Jr 

• Il est né le 18 octobre 1900 dans Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, USA.Les sources 1, 2
• Résidant:
• en l'an 1910: Memphis Shelby, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten.Source 3
• environ 1917: Memphis, Tennessee, USA.Source 4
• en l'an 1918: Memphis, Tennessee, USA.Source 5
• en l'an 1919: Memphis, Tennessee, USA.Source 6
• Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, USA.Source 2
• (Arrival) le 1 décembre 1917 dans Liverpool, England.Source 7
• (PVT John Joseph Brannon Jr.) le 8 mars 1918 dans Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, USA.Source 8
• (Arrival) le 1920-1921 dans Hoboken, Hudson, New Jersey, USA.Source 9
• (Departure) le 1 mai 1921 dans Cherbourg, Manche, Basse-Normandie, France.Les sources 9, 10
• (Arrival) dans New York, Verenigde Staten.Source 10
• (Departure) dans New York, Verenigde Staten.Source 7
• Il est décédé le 8 mars 1918 dans Moyen, Departement de Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France, il avait 17 ans.Source 1
• Il est enterré dans Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, USA.Source 1
• Un enfant de John Joseph Brannon et Margaret Jane “Maggie” Brogan

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Notes par John Joseph Brannon Jr

John Joseph Brannon Jr.
Birth 1900
Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, USA

Death 8 Mar 1918 (aged 17–18)
Moyen, Departement de Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France

Burial Calvary Cemetery
Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, USA
Memorial ID 190831414 · View Source

ARMY, World War I

John Brannon enlisted even though he was underage;

Memphians Killed Toying With Shell Had Found Unexploded Missile in Field While at Drill
Two Died Instantly

Death struck down the Memphis boys killed in France two weeks ago while the young soldiers were enjoying their recreation hour in the afternoon.

An old unexploded shell which they had found in a field near the camp and which they were tossing about brought disaster to them.

Details of the accident were acquired by The Commercial Appeal, Wednesday.

Sections of the unit had been at a drill during the morning of March 7. While in the field one of the boys, though often warned against collecting curious of a dangerous nature picked up an unexploded shell and placed it in one of the conveyances of the organization, in which it was carried back to camp. It lay in the stable, unthought-of again until 2 o'clock that afternoon.

The men were in their recreation when one of their numbers got the shell and began tossing it about. Suddenly a terrific explosion was heard and the members of the unit rushed up to find of the members stricken.

Private Edwin L. Fitch and Private Fred R. McGill were dead. Private Joe D. Brakefield of Collierville died on way to the hospital. Private George Hovey, Private Thomas G. Bragg and Private Willie Hayes died in the hospital. Corporal George S. Sanford of Crenshaw, MS, died the following day. Private John J. Brannon was operated on, but died on the night of the eighth.

Little did the members of the organization think when they left Memphis that they would ever draw on their company fund their bury their comrades. But with money taken from that treasury Capt. Perkins bought a lot in the burying ground of the little French village in which the company is billeted.

On the morning of the eighth services was held for the four Protestants and mass was said for the four Catholics after which the two processions united in the march to the graves, where the southern lads were given the honours of a military burial. The next day the unit followed the body of Private Brannon to the little cemetery.
There they rest, under the lilies of France.

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