John Kennedy Lasher Jr died of wounds on this day in 1918.
John Lasher Jr was born on 3 May 1893 in Yonkers, Westchester, New York, the son of civil engineer and a graduate (1916) of the Law School at Columbia College, New York.
At the time of enlistment he was a candidate for Plattsburg Town Council and was living at 396 Pallisade Avenue, Yonkers, NY.
John was severely wounded in action in the Vesle Sector in early September 1918 and died of these injuries in hospital near Paris on 9 September.
John is now buried in Suresnes American Cemetery, France (Plot B, Row 5, Grave 35).
Sgt John Kennedy Lasher Jr, 302nd Engineer Regiment, 77th Infantry Division, US Army.
9 September 1918 died of his wounds
Research by David O'Mara