WWI · Battle Death Record
Frank Wilcox
Colonel, U.S. Army · Massachusetts
Personnel File — Core Information
- Name
- Frank Wilcox
- Entered the Service From
- Massachusetts
- Rank
- Colonel
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Unit / Regiment
- 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division
- War
- WWI
- Date of Death
- February 9, 1918
- Burial / Memorial
- Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial, Seringes-et-Nesles, France
- Grave
- Plot D, Row 2, Grave 20
Their story
Frank Allen Wilcox, a West Point graduate of the class of 1892, served in the Spanish-American War, the Philippines, and Pershing's Mexican Punitive Expedition before commanding (as interim commander) the 16th Infantry Regiment, the first AEF regiment to arrive in France in 1917. He died of Spanish influenza on 9 February 1918 at a military hospital in Tours, France, before seeing major combat. He is buried at Oise-Aisne American Cemetery.
Compiled from American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) and National Archives (NARA) records and public sources.
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