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John Alexander Patten was born in Albany, New York on March 1, 1894. It's unclear why and when John relocated to Schenectady. John enlisted in the United States Army. On May 17, 1918, he was deployed overseas aboard the USS President Grant. He was a Second Lieutenant. On October 8, 1918, while serving with Company D, 4th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, John was killed in combat during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. He is buried in the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial, France.
Sources: The Schenectady Gazette, Find A Grave, Ancestry
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
For the Fallen
Laurence Binyon