About
World War I (1914-1918)
COHOES, ALBANY COUNTY, NEW YORK
John Baptiste Durocher was born in Cohoes, New York, on March 12, 1896. He was a parishioner of Sacred Heart Church and well-known on the east side of Cohoes.
On May 25, 1917, John enlisted in the United States Army. He was a private serving with Company B, 105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Division. On March 17, 1918, while stationed at Camp Wadsworth in Spartanburg, South Carolina, John died of acute meningitis. He is buried at St. Joseph's Cemetery in Waterford, New York.
*John's last name is spelled wrong on his grave marker.
Sources: The Argus, Ancestry, Find A Grave
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