Vido Kuliacha was born in the town Kuliache, Budra, Kotor, Serbia, June 15, 1895. For four years previous to the time when he entered the army he had been living in Tonopah, Nye County, Nevada. A miner by profession, he worked in the Belmont and Desert Queen mines. On the 23d of September, 1917, he left Tonopah with a Nye County contingent for Camp Lewis, Washington. From that time until the 5th of November he served in the 166th Depot Brigade; then he was transferred to Company B, and later Company A, 161st Infantry, 41st Division. His overseas service dated from December 13th. The last word received from Vido was a letter written on the 8th of May to his uncle in Tonopah. In it he said he hoped to be back in Tonopah soon, “but,” he added, “I must first help lick the enemy.”

In June, 1918, he was sent with replacements to Company L, 23d Infantry, 2d Division, which was then on the Chateau-Thierry Front holding back the German Offensive. Having stopped the rush of the enemy, the 2d, on June 4th, initiated a brilliant offensive against the Bois de Belleu, which they captured after a savage fight. Then followed their capture of Bouresches and Vaux. The battle for the latter town took place on the 1st of July, 1918, As the regiments of the 2d stormed the town, Private Vido Kuliacha was fatally hit, dying in the heat of the battle as his comrades rushed on to victory. Vido’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Savo J. Kuliacha, in Serbia, and four sisters, and a brother survive him. An uncle, Tom Kuliacha, lives in Tonopah. The soldier was fated never to return to Tonopah, as he had hoped, but he had “helped lick the enemy” as he had promised.