Clyde Neighbors

  General Notes:

Ken Gray notes:
Clyde Neighbors, b. 23^rd Aug 1891; m. at Liberty, Mo. 20^th April 1920 Miss Myrtle Houston (both of Kansas City, Mo.) He is living (1920) in Kansas City, Mo. working for an ice company. With the rank of Private and under the Selective Draft, he entered the service in the recent World War, at Kansas City, Mo. 11^th May 1918, in Co. B. 55^th Infantry; sent to Jefferson Barracks and later to Camp McAuthur, in Texas. Was sent overseas - left New York 1^st Aug. 1918 on the transport "Laviathia"; arrived at Brest (France) 11^th Aug. 1918; was brigaded with Co. H, 103^rd Infantry, 28^th Division, American Expeditionary Forces. His actual fighting commenced 7^th Sept. 1918 in the reduction of the San Michael Silence. While still in the San Michael drive, 12^th Sept., 1918 he as wounded in the thigh by a fragment of shrapnel and was removed to the hospital. Returned to his company, then in Argonne Forests, 18^th Oct. 1918 and remained there until 5^th Nov. when he was sent again to the hospital. During these nineteen days in the Argonne, he was continually in the firing line and in some of the fiercest fighting in which the American forces were engaged during the war. He "went over the top" three times. After being sent to the hospital, 5^th Nov. he did not get back to his company until after the armistice was signed and then of course the war was over. He re-embarked for home at Brest, 28^th March, 1919; arrived at Boston, 5^th April 1919; discharged at Louisville, Ky., 19^th April 1919. Unfortunately (and probably owing to his transfer to the 26^th Division and confusion of the records ) his discharge did not credit him with any over-seas service at all and it is possible that the records will never be compiled to give him credit for the service he actually performed.

Clyde married Myrtle Houston on 20 Apr 1920 in Liberty, Missouri USA. (Myrtle Houston was born circa 1895 in Kansas City, Missouri USA.)