In re Proving the Last Will & Testament of Dumont

Jerome Francois Dumont, the decedent soldier, a resident of California, enlisted at Fort McDonald, California, for the First Separate Squadron, Cavalry, California National Guard, a military unit then in Federal service and later designated Company C, 145th Machine Gun Battalion. He was transferred on June 1, 1918, to an infantry replacement detachment, and left the United States for overseas service on June 28, 1918. Assigned on August 11, 1918, to Company B, 127th Infantry, he served with that regiment in the Fismes defensive sector, participated in the Oise-Aisne offensive and was wounded…