About

World War I (1914-1918)

Courtland John Thomas was born in Lake Luzerne, New York, on September 11, 1893. By 1910, he was living in the city of Schenectady with his family. He was a teacher and a member of the Albany Street Methodist Church's Kappa Sigma Pi Fraternity, Chapter 258.

On April 4, 1918, Courtland enlisted in the United States Army. He served as a private in Company D, 303rd Ammunition Train. On May 7, 1918, at Fort Dix, New York, Courtland died of appendicitis. He is buried in Parkview Cemetery in Schenectady, New York.

Sources: The Schenectady Gazette, Find A Grave, Ancestry

 

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them.

 

For the Fallen

Laurence Binyon