This is part of a series of essays about the First World War casualties commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in Michigan.

This is a most tragic story about a young man, unsuitable for military service, who should not have been enlisted.

Henry Louis Gerow was born on 2 February 1895, the son of John and Matilda Gerow.^[1] He was the fourth of six sons and he had four sisters. His parents were from New York, where they had married and started a family before moving to Beaugrand, in Cheboygan County, Michigan. His father was a farmer and in 1917 he was killed in an accident when a pile of logs that he was taking to the mill fell and crushed him. Continue reading →