The Faber (Stockville, NE) 35(22):1 Thursday, February 27, 1919:

Mr. and Mrs L. S. Brittenham received the sad message last week that their son, Floyd had been killed in France, some time ago, he was reported as “missing in action.” He was a true American giving the cause of Freedom.

Brady Vindicator (Brady, NE) 11(47):1 Thursday, April 24, 1919:

Washington, D. C., April 12, 1919.

Mrs. L. S. Brittenham,
Moorefield, Nebr.

My dear Mrs. Brittenham:—We regret very much to send you the information which we have just received by cable from our Paris office. It states that the Graves Registration Service reports that your son Private Floyd E. Brittenham, Company F, 127th Infantry, was buried in the cemetery at Exermont, in the American Battle Area, Ardennes. His grave is Number 17, in Plot 1. The date of his death is not given.

We extend to you the sincere symapthy of the Red Cross.

Very sincerely yours, W. R. CASTLE, Jr.

This copy of the letter was sent to Brady Chapter American Red Cross and was handed in to this paper by Mrs. R. Rasmussen

People’s Journal (Davenport, NE) 29(51):3 Friday, October 10, 1919:

The following report of the death of Floyd Brittenham, son of L. S. Brittenham and wife of Moorefield, but formerly of this place, was received from the Red Cross:

“During the advance on Bois de Bantheville on Oct. 15, about three hundred yards from the town, Private Brittenham was hit by a sniper, thru the top of the shoulder, the bullet going thru his heart. ‘He was unable to speak and died in my arms,’ said Sgt. Krawczyk. He was buried in the place where he fell.”

The following letter was received by L. S. Brittenham and wife, from the sergeant of the company of which their son, who was killed in France, was a member:

Milwaukee, Wis. Aug. 11, 1919

Mr. and Mrs. Brittenham, Moorefield, Nebr.

My Dear Friends: Your most welcome letter of “thanks” I received the other day and was very glad to hear from the folks of a fallen hero. It makes me feel good that you received definite news about your boy. I did not know him very long because he was a replacement in our company just before entering the front lines in the “Argonne Woods.”

It is almost a year ago now since I laid him to rest on the battlefield of honor and humanity. He had a very easy death and died with a smile on his lips. He couldn’t say a word any more, only looked at me and departed to a better world, a place where pain is not known. Everything the Red Cross told you corresponds exactly with the truth as I knew it.

Please do not worry, because you can be proud of your boy. I was a sergeant over litter bearers on that front so you see I know all that was going on. I was always willing to do anyting I could for my pals and at times could not do enough. I buried your boy with prayers and all that goes with it.

I remain always a friend, Edward Krawczyk.

The Gothenburg Times (Gothenburg, NE) 14(18):10 Wednesday, October 19, 1921:

Floyd Brittenham, the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Brittenham, was born in 1896 and he grew to manhood on the farm 13 miles northwest of Moorefield. He joined Company L, 5th Nebraska National Guard in July 1917, and went to Camp Cody in September, where he trained until June 1918 when he went to France with replacement troops. He was assigned to the 32nd Division and went into action at Soissons, and was later killed in action in the Meuse-Argonne drive on October 15, 1918.

He leaves to mourn him a mother and father, three sisters, Mrs. L. D. Carroll, Mrs. Stanley Grandstaff, and Miss Dorothy and three brothers, Jake, Oliver and Clarence all of Moorefield, besides many other relatives and a host of friends.

A large crowd went to Maxwell with the family, where they met quite a delegation from Gothenburg. The pallbearers were former comrades of Company L. They with the Maxwell Post, American Legion taking charge at Fort McPherson, in according the military honors at the grave.

The minister read the text from the battered and torn bible which the deceased had on his person when he was killed, one bullet going into the bible. It was from the page where the bullet stopped that the minister took his text

The Curtis Enterprise (Curtis, NE) 30(32):7 Thursday, October 20, 1921:

Half a dozen, or more, automobile loads went from here over to Maxwell, Sunday to attend the military funeral, in respect to Floyd Brittenham, whose body arrived there from France, last Friday evening. Floyd was raised a few miles north of Moorefield and was a highly respected young man. He volunteered in the Service, in the month of July, when the war broke out. He was stationed at Gothenburg a while then, at Deming, N. Mex., and the following summer he was sent over seas, and soon to the front. He fought for about three months, most of the time at the front and in the thickest of the fights, until finally a bullet from the enemy, killed him, in action, just a little while before the Armistice was signed. A very large concorse of people gathered at the Baptist Church in Maxwell, to pay their last respects to a hero, Sunday afternoon. The pastor of the church spoke very fittingly, and read the scripture lessons from a bible that Floyd carried with him, in the service, and quite a bunch of leaves had been partly shot out, during the time he carried it, and may be the same bullet that caused his death tore the book, we do not know. Floyd was a model soldier, a Christian young man, who willingly entered the service and no doubt was willing to give the sacrifice. Burial was in the National Cemetery, known as Ft. McPherson, under the auspices of the Maxwell Legion.

Brady Vindicator (Brady, NE) 14(21):1 Thursday, October 20, 1921:

Floyd Brittenham, the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Brittenham of Ingham, Nebr., was buried at the Fort McPherson National Cemetery last Sunday, Oct. 16, 1921. He was born in 1896 and he grew to manhood on the farm 13 miles northwest of Moorefield. He joined Company L, 5th Nebraska National Guard in July 1917, and went to Camp Cody in September, where he trained until June 1918 when he went to France with replacement troops. He was assigned to the 32nd Division and went into action at Soissons, and was later killed in action in the Meuse-Argonne drive on Oct. 15, 1918.

He leaves to mourn him a mother and father, three sisters, Mrs. L. D. Carroll, Mrs. Stanley Grandstaff, and Miss Dorothy and three brothers, Jake, Oliver and Clarence all of Moorefield, besides many other relatives and a host of friends.