List of MLB players that were killed in WWI :
Bun Troy : Killed from wounds (reportedly a bullet to the chest) received in combat in the Argonne Forest in October 1918.
Harry Chapman : Died at age 30 in Nevada, Missouri in 1918, from injuries sustained serving in the military during World War I.
Tom Burr : Killed in an airplane accident on October 12, 1918 while serving in the United States Army Air Service in Cazaux, France. After colliding with a fellow pilot, Burr's plane crashed into a lake in flames; his body was recovered after 12 days. He had been serving in France and was 24 years old at the time of his death.
Larry Chappell : Died at the age of 28 in an army camp in France from the Spanish flu of 1918.
Harry Glenn : Drafted to serve in the military in August 1918. He served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. He developed pneumonia and died in a St. Paul Hospital in October 1918.
Newt Halliday : Attended the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, where he contracted tuberculosis, which led to his death at the age of 21.
Ralph Sharman : Drowned while swimming in the Alabama River during training at Camp Sheridan, Alabama on May 24, 1918.
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