Galen Dilly Sitler Biography


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This biography was copied from "Washington County in the World War", 
page 11


Galen Dilly Sitler
Wellman, Iowa

Galen Dilly Sitler of Wellman, was born at Daytonville, Iowa, on October 21, 
1888. He was the son of D. C. Sitler and Rachel E. Shoff. 

Army Record

First Sergeant Sitler entered the service January 27, 1918 at Berkley, 
California, in the Naval Aviation. He was transferred to Camp Hancock, 
Georgia, where he was attending the Officers Training School when he 
contracted pneumonia of which he died November 10, 1918. He had previously 
served out a four year enlistment in the Navy, from 1913 to 1917, serving on 
the Scout Cruiser Salem and the Battleships Virginia and Nevada.