Lex Anteinternet: January 10, 1920. Gen. Paul Kendall

Lex Anteinternet: January 10, 1920. Germany signs the Protocol and ...:

January 10, 1920. Germany signs the Protocol and the Great War officially ends (except for the U.S.). . .

In Russia, a platoon of American soldiers under Sheridan Wyoming's 2d Lt. Paul Kendall defeated an attack by a Soviet armored train near Posolyskaya, Siberia (entry from WyoHistory.org).  Armored trains had become a strange but big feature of the Russian Civil War.

Kendall had been born in Kansas but raised in Sheridan.  He entered West Point in 1916 and graduated in 1918, due to the shortened class cycle World War One caused.  He received the Distinguished Service Cross for his action in Siberia on this day.

Kendall would go on to a career in the U.S. Army and rose to the rank of Lt. Gen., commanding troops in World War Two and the Korean War.  

Sheridan County War Memorial, Sheridan Wyoming

This is the all wars memorial in Sheridan County, Wyoming. As can be seen, the base of this monument was put in during 1976, so the names on that part of the memorial only run through the Vietnam War. Located on the Sheridan County Courthouse's lawn, the accompanying courthouse wall has bronze markers for all US wars.