Adolfo Siri was born in Sassello, Italy, March 28th, 1899. He came to America in the year 1905, when he was about seventeen years of age, and took up his residence in Nevada. Thereafter he followed the occupation of miner, working around Hawthorne and other Mineral County towns. At the time he was called to serve his Country, he was employed in the Wall Street Mine at Luning. Adolfo was a true American. He had taken out his naturalization papers at Hawthorne in 1914, and when the Nation called its young men he was among those to answer. On June 11th, 1918, he entered the Service, and reported to the University of Nevada Training Detachment at Reno.

When his training was finished on the 13th of August, he was transferred to the 1st Battalion of Engineers at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. He served with that unit until October 3d, going then into a Detachment Company of the 118th Engineer Regiment. About this time he contracted influenza, which turned into pneumonia and which caused his death on October 10th, 1918. The soldier’s parents, Giovanni and Antonia Siri still reside in Piampaludo, Italy, but two of his brothers Ernest and Andrew Siri, live in Nevada, at Luning, Mineral County.