Iowa In the Great War

Source: Waterloo Evening Courier (Iowa), April 1, 1919, pg. 2

MANCHESTER HONORS MEMORY OF SOLDIER WHO DIED IN FRANCE

Manchester, Ia., April 1. - News has been received of the death in France of Sergt. Guy O. Harrington and impressive services were held in the Methodist Episcopal church Sunday morning, during which a gold star was placed on the church service flag which already bore three gold stars among the blue ones.

Since September of last year the family of Sergt. Harrington had not heard directly from him but had been informed that he had been in the hospital recovering from wounds and that he had been severely gassed so that there was little hope of his recovery. News came of the wounding and loss of Guy's brother, Harry, and the family were in some doubt as to whether only one or both of the boys had been injured and their suspense was finally ended by official information from the war department that Guy was dead in France, but the cause of death was not given.

Guy O. Harrington was born near Strawberry Point, Ia., Aug. 18, 1891. He enlisted in Company D, Fifty-third infantry of the national guard while still a school boy and served three years. He again enlisted in 1918 in Company H, the Manchester company, and took part in the service that fell to the lot of that organization on the Mexican border and guarding bridges before the United States entered the war. When the selection was made to form the Rainbow division he was chosen to go and made an excellent record for his service over there, winning the rank of sergeant.

He is survived by his widow and one child; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.P. Harrington, and one sister, Mrs. Herman Paar, Manchester, and one brother, Harry, how with the army of occupation in Germany.