Co I 26th Inf First Div

VFW Post 1086 named in his honor

[Patriot News - July 22, 1921]
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FULL MILITARY FUNERAL
FOR PVT. AURAND TODAY
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Full military funeral services for Earl E. Aurand, the first Harrisburg boy to be killed in the World War, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Harris Street United Evangelical Church. Both the Calder Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Governor's Troop, commanded by Captain Shoemaker, will escort the body from the church to the East Harrisburg Cemetery, where military burial will be made. The Governor's Troop will be mounted and act as a special guard of honor to the dead man.

Members of Calder Post will meet at the social rooms, Market and Court Streets, and former service men of Harrisburg have been invited to join the members of the post in honoring Aurand. The Rev. Mr. Baum, a former pastor of Harris Street Church, will officiate, assisted by the Rev. George B. Gensemer, present pastor. After the services at the church the body will be placed on a cassion and led by the Carlisle Military Band, the mournful procession will march to Thirteenth and State Street, where special cars will take the marchers to the cemetery.

Private Aurand was a member of the Governor's Troop during the trouble at the Mexican border and during the late war was a member of Company I, Twenty-sixth Infantry, First Division, and was killed Nov. 13, 1917, near Somerville, France.
Source: Find a Grave