Karl Herbert Pitcher was born on Sept. 6, 1883, and attended high school in Haverhill, Mass. He attended Dartmough College. After leaving Dartmouth he studied medicine for one term at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City. Later, he became associated with the C. K. Fox Shoe Co. in Haverhill. He enlisted on April 9, 1917, as a private in Battery A of the 102nd Field Artillery and was sent to Camp Curtis Guild for training. He was promoted to Corporal in July, 1917, and to Mess Sergeant on October, 1917. He sailed for France in September, 1917 and about a month before his death was transferred to the front line. While a mess sergeant he received a citation from the Division Quartermaster, commending him as having the most efficient and best organized detachment in the 26th Division. On Sept. 3, 1918, he was taken ill and sent to evacuation hospital, and then to Base Hospital No. 50 at Mesves, France, where he died on Sept. 29, 1918. He is now buried in Linwood Cemetery, Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA.