WWI · Battle Death Record
Edward Grant
Captain, U.S. Army · New York
Personnel File — Core Information
- Name
- Edward Grant
- Entered the Service From
- New York
- Rank
- Captain
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Unit / Regiment
- 307th Infantry Regiment, 77th Division
- War
- WWI
- Date of Death
- October 5, 1918
- Burial / Memorial
- Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, France
- Grave
- Plot A, Row 2, Grave 24
Their story
Edward Leslie "Harvard Eddie" Grant, a Harvard-educated former Major League Baseball third baseman, was commissioned a captain in Company H of the 307th Infantry Regiment, 77th Division. On October 5, 1918, while leading his men in the Argonne Forest during the effort to relieve the "Lost Battalion," he was killed instantly by a German artillery shell. He was the first Major League Baseball player to die in combat.
Compiled from American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) and National Archives (NARA) records and public sources.
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