George Lacey McCall, son of David McCall of Fallon, Nevada, and Mary McCall, since deceased, was born in Stockton, California, May 8th, 1893. When George was six months old his parents moved from Stockton to Ione, California, where he spent his childhood and early boyhood much the same as other country boys. He attended the grammar school and high school at Ione, graduating from the latter at the age of seventeen. His parents then moved back to Stockton, where George took a course in the Stockton Business College. Following the completion of his education, he was employed successively by the Rumley Company of Los Angeles, by his father in his hardware and implement store in Stockton, and, after his father had closed out his business, by the Bradley Hardware Company, in Reno, Nevada. With the latter company he soon worked up to the position of head salesman, and was booked for Assistant Manager’s place in the concern when he should have returned from the Service.

In September, 1917, the Nation made its first call to the States for men. George was one of the first selected from Washoe County, and although he had a defect in one eye, the result of an accident in early life, he was anxious to go and would not hear of a deferred classification. On September 18th, 1917, he became a private in Battery E, 348th Field Artillery, at Camp Lewis, Washington. Shortly afterward he was made a corporal.

An illness contracted at the camp led to the granting of a furlough to him in order that he might visit his relatives in California. While with them he was asked if he felt any fear in going to the front. “Not a bit,” he answered. “If I were offered an honorable discharge this moment and had to stay home, I would not accept it. I want to go. My country is in peril and I would not be a laggard—and more than that, my comrades all feel the same way, and we are going to win.”

His battery went overseas on the 14th of July, 1918, and was sent to Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dome for training. In September, when the regiment started for Northern France, Sergeant McCall was in charge of the tractors drawing the “155’s” of the battery. They were within five hours travel of the firing when news of the Armistice reached them.

The command later advanced into German territory as part of the Army of Occupation. Sergeant McCall was desirous of securing as many souvenirs as possible while there, and secured passes to visit places of historical interest in the vicinity. While on one of these trips he was accidentally struck by a locomotive which fatally injured him. He was taken to Trier (Treves) where every attention was given him in the American Hospital, but in spite of all care, he passed away on the 13th of February, 1919. He is buried in Trier until such time as his remains can be returned to the United States, to rest in the American soil he so bravely defended. The soldier leaves an aged father, David McCall, of Fallon, Nevada; one brother, Robert McCall, of Berkeley, California; and three sisters, Mrs. Inez Russell and Mrs. Lorena Voorheis of Berkeley, and Mrs. Alma Snell of Fallon. In life he was truthful, noble and earnest in all things; in the army, a splendid soldier. The State of Nevada feels an unbounded pride in having such a son for her representative.