Walter Van Brunt, Duluth and St. Louis County: Their Story and People, Vol. II (Chicago and New York: The American Historical Society, 1921), p. 635- Walter Crellin, the first Virginia boy in United States uniform to give his life, was on board the British liner "Tuscania" when it was torpedoed off the coast of Ireland on February 5, 1918. His body was recovered and buried at Kilnaughton, Islay, Scotland, but in due time was disinterred and brought back to America, so that it might have honored place in the Arlington National Cemetery, near Washington. Interment there took place on October 22, 1920. Young Crellin was well-known in both Eveleth and Virginia. He was born on August 15, 1895, at Ishpeming, Michigan, the son of Captain John S. Crellin, a mine manager, who later came to Virginia, and latterly has been of Leonidas Location, Eveleth. Walter attended the Virginia schools, eventually, in 1914, graduating from the Virginia High School. In October, 1917, he enlisted in the Aviation Section, Signal Corps. Frank M. Cullen, whose name is on the Duluth Honor Roll, has a sister living in West Duluth, Mrs. Minnie Gilbert, of 20 Fifty-third Avenue. Benjamin Dachyk, of Duluth, was killed by a falling tree not far from the front-line trenches in France, on July 22, 1918. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dachyk, of Greysolon Farms, near Duluth, and he enlisted at Duluth, in June, 1917, being then assigned to Company A of the Third Minnesota Regiment. Later, he was transferred to the Eighth Company, Third Motor Mechanic Corps, Air Service. Charles Daniels, whose father, Alphonse Daniels, lives in Buyck, St. Louis County, was a Belgian by birth, born at Berges, Belgium, May 23, 1896. The family came to St. Louis County in 1910, and took up the cultivation of an acreage of wild land in Buyck township. Charles was inducted on June 5, 1917, when he became a private of infantry, National Guard. He was assigned to Company I, One Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Infantry, and in due time crossed the sea to the French Front. He was killed in action on the Argonne front on October 16, 1918. Rocco Decenzo, who was in the employ of the Republic Iron and Steel Company, Gilbert, before entering military service, was born at Sagliono, Italy, the son of Vicoriano Decenzo, of that place. He was inducted on May 24, 1918, at Eveleth, Minn., in the grade of private of infantry of National Army. He was assigned to the Thirty-Fourth Company, Ninth Battalion, One Hundred and Sixty-Sixth Depot Brigade, soon after arrival at Camp Lewis, Wash., and later became a member of Company H, One Hundred and Fifty-Seventh Infantry, Fortieth Division. With that unit he embarked from New York, on August 8, 1918. His regiment was soon in action, and he received wounds from which he died. His body was interred in the American Cemetery, Commune of Brieyeaux, Meuse, France, on October 3, 1918. James T. Doherty, who, like his father of same name, was well-known and popular in Buhl, Minn., where he was in the employ of the Dower Lumber Company, was born at Grand Rapids, on September 17, 1893. Inducted December 16, 1917, at Chisholm, he was destined to see strenuous service in France, and to safely pass through many major offensives, including St. Mihiel, and Meuse-Argonne. He also saw severe fighting on the Champagne front, and in a Verdun sector. A month or so after the Armistice he was taken sick, tubercular trouble keeping him in Base Hospital No. 52, Remaucourt, France, from December 15, 1918, to March 26, 1919. He was only paritially convalescent when he left France in May, 1919, on the troopship "DeKalb." He succumbed to lobar-pneumonia during the voyage. His military service included six months of training at the Presidio of San Fransisco. On June 24, 1918, he was transferred to Company B, Army Artillery Park, First Army, and embarked July 1st at Hoboken, for Bordeaux. Frank Donatello, who was in the employ of the Oliver Iron Mining Company, at Hibbing, was inducted on June 28, 1918, at Duluth, and assigned in the grade of private to the Engineers National Army. He was born on June 4, 1886, at Barron, Wisconsin, and died of Disease in France on November 25, 1918. His father, San Donatello, lived at Cumberland, Wisconsin. Joseph Dragich's death, on May 1, 1918, at a Texas camp, was attributed to the effects of pneumonia. He was one of the most eager volunteers of the early days of the war, enlisting in May, 1917. He was an Austrian by birth, born October 17, 1888, at Tarvi, Austria, son of Nicholas Dragich, now of Chisholm. Laurence P. Drohan, of West Duluth, left Duluth on April 26, 1917, and was early in France. He was killed in action on October 5, 1918. His mother, Mrs. Mary Drohan, lives at 9 Sixteenth Avenue, West, Duluth. Arthur J. Duggen, whose mother, Minnie Duggen, lives in Bradford, Pennsylvania, had residence in Ely before enlisting. Dr. Harry Dunlop, who died of wounds on November 2, 1918, was at one time in active practice in Duluth, associated with Dr. David Graham, of West Duluth. In 1912 he went to Peru, but the outbreak of the war in 1914 drew him to Canada, where, in 1914, he enlisted in the Canadian Army. He was commissioned and assigned to the Medical Department, and sent overseas. Eventually he became captain, and passed through the long, dark, and dangerous years of vigil with the Canadian Expeditionary Forces, his death coming only nine days before the Armistice ended the strain. A brother of Dr. Dunlop lives in Duluth, and has reason to be satisfied with the part taken by his family in the struggle for the Great Cause. Four of the family were in war service, three brothers and one sister. Napoleon Duprey, a Duluthian who was killed in action in France, was born at Rib Lake, Taylor County, Wisconsin, on April 6, 1901, but lived for years in Duluth prior to entering service on November 3, 1917, as a private of infantry of the regular army. He was sent to Jefferson Barracks, and later to Camp Green, S. C., and embarked at New York on March 3, 1918, as a member of Company E, Thirty-Eighth Infantry, A. E. F. He was killed in action on July 15, 1918, in the Commune of Courtemont, Varennes, France. His mother, Celia Duprey, lives at 1932 West Michigan Street, Duluth. Clarence E. Ellison was a Saginaw, Minnesota, boy, son of Elias Ellison, of that place. Albert A. Erickson is claimed to have been a Duluthian; his brother, John G., lives in Cumberland, Wisconsin. Edgar Eubanks, who was killed in action in France in October, 1918, and who prior to entering service lived in St. Louis County, was born in 1897 in Rice Lake, Wisconsin, where his parents still live. He was called to service in 1917, and assigned to the Machine Gun Company, Third Wisconsin Regiment, which eventually became a unit of the A. E. F.