Stout, Ellis Trent (Deceased)
Captain, Medical Corps, 108th Sanitary Train, 33d Division
Silver Star. General Orders No. 55, Headquarters 33d Division, on board U.S.S. Mount Vernon, May 17, 1919: The following named officers and enlisted men are hereby cited for gallantry in action against the enemy and each officer and enlisted man will be entitled to wear a silver star ......: .......108th Sanitary Train .....Captain Trent Stout ....By command of Major General Bell: William H. Simpson, Lieutenant Colonel, General Staff, Chief of Staff. Official: James H. Stansfield, Lieutenant Colonel, Infantry, Acting Division Adjutant.
Record. Born December 3, 1883, Upland; son of Orlando and Frances M. (Saxon) Stout. Physician, Upland. Entered service June 20, 1917, Fort Benjamin Harrison. Prior service on Mexican border, 1916 - 1917. Training: Fort Benjamin Harrison; Camp Shelby, MS. Assigned to Ambulance Company No. 2, Indiana National Guard, redesignated Ambulance Company No. 162, 113th Sanitary Train, 38th Division; transferred to Advance Detachment, 38th Division; to Army Sanitary School, A.E.F.; to Field Hospital No. 320, 80th Division; to Field Hospital No. 131, 108th Sanitary Train, 33d Division; to Camp Surgeon's Office, Camp Merritt, NJ. First lieutenant, Medical Corps, August 5, 1917; captain, Medical Corps, March 21, 1918. Overseas October 2, 1918 - May 22, 1919. Died July 26, 1931. Buried at Pierre, SD.
Married (1) Martha Brogneaux. Daughters, Frances Marie (Mrs. Noble F. Denny), Geraldine (died 1916), Betty Jane. Married (2) Olah Davis. Son, Ellis Trent, Jr.; daughters, Eileen Dorothy, Maxine Virginia.