Sidney Rankin
Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 17 July 1917, page 2
James Champ, foreman of the bottling department at the Wiedemann
Brewing plant, Newport, announced that 10 of his most promising bottlers had
enlisted in the US Army within the past two weeks. Champ reports the following
enlisted from his department:
Thomas Evans, Leo Herman, Floyd Brooks, John McMahan, Okely Bond, William Duba, Sidney Rankin, Robert Bullen, Peter Fellen and John Siry.
The enlistment fever has struck the shop, Champ says and all the boys in the draft age say they intend to enlist. There are 125 employees in the bottling room and it is estimated that three-fourths of the men are within the selective service age.
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Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 5 November 1918, page 1
Charles Rankin, Newport street car man, received word Tuesday that his son Sidney Rankin, a member of the infantry, had been wounded while fighting on the western front. The extent of his wounds are not known.
Rankin enlisted in the army at Ft Thomas a year ago and has been in France several months. His father lives at 328 W Sixth st. Newport.
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Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 25 February 1919, page 3
The War Department announced Tuesday morning that Corporal Sidney Rankin, son of Charles Rankin, 328 W Seventh st. Newport, had been wounded slightly in action. Corporal Rankin enlisted at Ft Thomas at the outbreak of the war and was among the first soldiers to arrive on French soil.
His father, Charles Rankin, is a motorman on the Green Line.
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Kentucky Post, Monday, 20 September 1920, page 1
Charles Rankin, 438 W Sixth st. Newport, father of Sidney Rankin, who died in a government hospital in Greenville SC has arrived home with the body of his son. Rankin was summoned to his son's bedside last week, but the boy died before he could get there.
Sidney Rankin was well known in Newport. Prior to his enlistment he had been a street car conductor and after a member of the James Wallace Costigan Post of the American Legion. The post will hold a special meeting Monday night to take action on their comrade's death.