Thursday, January 1, 1970

In Peace And War (1920)

Two volumes published by the Knights of Columbus.

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http://books.google.com/books?id=mHoLAAAAYAAJ
http://www.archive.org/details/knightsofcolumbu01egan
The Knights of Columbus in peace and war, Volume 1
by Maurice Francis Egan, John James Bright Kennedy
---no Berkeley references

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http://books.google.com/books?id=C3sLAAAAYAAJ
The Knights of Columbus in peace and war, Volume 2
by Maurice Francis Egan, John James Bright Kennedy
(Knights of Columbus, 1920)


---page 33---
State and Territorial Deputies
[...]
California
1917 Dr John F Slavich [Oakland council]
1918 "
1919 David F Supple [un-determined council]


---page 35---
Foreword to Roll of Honor

Below, without any designation of rank -- be they officers or
enlisted men, is presented the roster of the Knights who served
with their country's colors in the war. Rhetoric is vain before
so overwhelming a record of practical patriotism. Hundreds of
the men whose names are printed here, lie buried in France. They
gave the last, full measure of devotion. Hundreds more were
wounded. Thousands served under fire. But whether in the
trenches, on the seas, or in the camps at home, all did their duty.

It is a striking coincidence that the first American to fall in
the war was a Knight of Columbus and that the last American
to fall was also a Knight, and that the first man to win the
Distinguished Service Cross was a Knight. Space permits nothing
but the mere printing of the name of each of these Knights who
answered the last great call to chivalry. Many volumes could
not contain the full story of their sacrifice for their country.


---page 44---
Roll of Honor
[...]
BERKELEY COUNCIL No. 1499 -- Berkeley, California

Bardet, Leonard M.
Becker, Bernard C.
Begley, Daniel J.
Bradley, Daniel
Bradley, Thomas
Brennan, John P.
Campbell, Ralph E.
Curran, Martin J.
Daly, Denis A.
Doran, Clare J.

Eveleth, Dwight E.
Farrell, Harry F.
Flinn, J Ashton
Gerhard, Anthony E.
Giesche, Joseph F.
Johnston, Harry G. [wounded]
Higgins, John
De Mers, Roy E. T.
Stanof, Carl . [sic, no initial]
Keenan, Patrick J. [died]

Leen, John W.
Leen, William . [sic, no initial]
Maginnis, Frank D.
Maine, Alva F.
McCord, Albert T.
Macdonald, J. Grant
McCullough, Peter J.
Regan, Edward F.
Reneghan, Michael
Rose, John J.

Rowe, Cornelius F.
Rowe, John M.
Spaan, John E.
Smith, Edward F.
Sullivan, Denis
Strauss, Victor J.
Sweeney, William J [sic, no period]
Vitt, Henry N..... [sic, several periods]
Williams, M. Bradley
McCullough, T. P.


---page 339---
SCHOLARSHIPS WON BY EX-SERVICE MEN
[...]
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, CAL.
[...]
Ralph Bagley .......... 2201 Blake St., Berkeley, Cal.
[this is likely Ralph K Bagley (wounded) from Leominster MA]
[did he remain in Berkeley and transfer to kofc1499?]
[...]

[***must use council member list to determine names to include here***]


---page 345---
APPENDIX
The subjoined report of the Supreme Board of Directors to the Supreme
Convention of 1919 was acclaimed by the press as one of the most remarkable
documents issued by any war relief agency. With business-like exactness it
gives in detail the Knights of Columbus stewardship of the fund entrusted to their
Order's care, and is also the means of conveying to the reader of this book what could
not easily be included in the running story of war endeavor, the location and extent,
in numbers of buildings and men, of the Order's work in the camps. In the words
of the New York World it is "a splendid record of efficient service." In it may
be noted the unusually large expenditure for free creature comforts for service
men -- the Knights of Columbus spending more than all other war relief organizations
combined, in this supremely important division of relief work.
[...]


---page 369---
Appendix [continued]

Western Department
[...]
|| Berkeley, Cal || Council No. 1499 || 1 Building || 1 Secretary ||
[...]

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A note about Patrick J Keenan ...

Another book confirms him among the war dead
http://books.google.com/books?id=dswMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA140&lpg=PA140&dq=patrick+keenan,+berkeley+ca,+great+war&source=bl&ots=0pTsvqcTqi&sig=ioc5jCGlQrN3jGN736p7Z28woSQ&hl=en&ei=E1utTNf8DI2qsAOxxvCgDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

Berkeley Veterans Memorial Building WWI bronze plaque created in 1923
mis-spelled his last name
see column 1 name 20 "P J Reenan".

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http://www.militaryindexes.com/worldwarone/
Has a list of online references that might provide further info about each person

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