Mathew B. Juan WWI Service Card                   <click here>

Mathew B. Juan - Native American Hero           <click here>

Mathew B. Juan - WWI hero                               <click here>

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Mathew Ben Rivers - Sacaton, Pinal Co., Arizona

Real name: Mathew Bennett Juan

Army Rank: Private (1918).

Assigned Unit: Camp Travis Detachment No. 2

  1^st Infantry Trng. Regiment, 6^th Co.  (Dec. 11, 1917 – May 20, 1918)

  1^st Division, 2^nd Inf. Brigade, 28^th Infantry, Co. K (May 21, 1918 - KIA)

Army Serial Number: 251,576

Inducted: Dec. 11, 1917 Wichita Falls, Wichita Co., Texas

Promoted: N/A

Army Discharge: Eternal Watch

Remarks:  Overseas Jan. 24, 1918 – KIA

Torpedoed on the Transport Tuscania Feb. 5, 1918

First Pima Indian killed in WWI

First Arizonian killed in WWI

Fathers Name: Joseph Juan

Mothers Name: Mary B. Juan

Brothers Name: Antonio, Sipley

Sisters Name:

Civilian Occupation:

Born: April 22 1892 San Tan, Pinal Co., Arizona

Died: May 28, 1918 KIA Cantigny, France

The battle of Cantigny was the 1st attack by an American Div. in WWI

Buried in a temporary grave in France until after the war.

1921 - body exhumed and shipped to Sacaton, AZ

Cemetery: Cook Memorial Church, Sacaton, Arizona

Internment: April 9, 1921

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