for Hay; the local Kiwanis club placed a memorial plaque near the entrance to the mall's Sears store in 1979. The first American military casualty in World War II was also an Iowa native. Andrew, Iowa, native Robert M. Losey, a military attache, was killed on April 21, 1940, during a German bombardment of Dombås, Norway. Captain Losey had been attempting to complete the evacuation of the American diplomatic delegation from Norway to Sweden in the wake of the German invasion. Family Hay's mother collapsed upon hearing of his death but in an interview two days after Hay's father, D. Hay, said that "I am proud of my boy if he has given up his life for his country." He was survived by a younger brother Basil, eighteen, and a fourteen-year-old sister Opel. See also First killed in WWI Albert Mayer (soldier), the first Imperial German Army soldier killed, 1914 Jules Andre Peugeot, the first French Army soldier killed, 1914 John Parr, the first British Army soldier killed, 1914 Thomas Enright, one of the first three American Army soldiers killed, 1917 Merle David Hay, one of the first three American Army soldiers killed, 1917 James Bethel Gresham, one of the first three American Army soldiers killed, 1917 Last killed in WWI George Edwin Ellison, the last British Army soldier killed in World War I, at 9:30 a.m. 11 November Augustin Trébuchon, last French soldier killed, at 10:45 a.m. 11 November George Lawrence Price, last Commonwealth soldier killed in World War I, 10:58 a.m. 11 November. Henry Gunther, last soldier killed in World War I, at 10:59 a.m. 11 November. Bibliography Notes References External links 1896 births 1917 deaths United States Army personnel of World War I People from Carroll County, Iowa United States Army soldiers American military personnel killed in World War I