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Tribute Sgt Willis Burnworth 145th Infantry 37th Division

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This website is a tribute to Sergeant Willis Lewis Burnworth of Bremen, Ohio who was killed in action in Belgium during the Ypres-Lys offensive at the end of the Great War.

 

He gave the ultimate sacrifice so that we can live in a free country. We will remember them.

 

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Newsletter

August 21, 2018

The United States World War One Centennial Commission published this week in their newsletter the story of Sgt Willis Lewis Burnworth who's grave my spouse Colette and I adopted.

Rememberance ceremony

August 05, 2018

On August 5th the U.S. Army Center of Military History and the Army National Guard conduct a remembrance ceremony at the Flanders Field American Cemetery in Belgium to honor America’s war dead from WWI. We had the chance to meet

Letters from Willis

May 20, 2018

November last year we visited the new museum Hippo.War in Waregem. In this museum are two exhibitions: one about the role of the horse during World War I and the other one about the importance of the Americans during the Great War.

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