Corporal Percy Ayers Dean Main Street, Oneida, NY. DOB: August 22, 1897 DOD: October 7, 1918 KIA: France, age 21 Posthumous Award: December 21, 1920, New York State Conspicuous Service Star. Buried: Glenwood Cemetary, Oneida, NY Percy Dean enlisted into the Army as a Private to Company 1, 22nd Infantry the first of May, 1917. He was sent overseas and served at the Headquarters of General Pershing where he was promoted to Corporal, February of 1918. He transferred on to Company L, 26th Infantry. He served in the Marne, Saint-Miheil and Argonne Forest, France where he took a wound to his hand. Corporal Dean was later killed in action (KIA) during the Meuse-Argonne Campaign in France. His remains were returned home where he is buried at Glenwood Cemetery, Oneida, NY. Before he joined the war, Percy worked as a laborer at the Oneida Steel Pulley Company.