William Joseph Fredette was born on September 23, 1895 in Pittsford, Rutland County, Vermont. For four or five years prior to his enlistment he was employed as a marble cutter by the Vermont Marble company in Proctor. He had been a resident of West Rutland about two years before he enlisted in the spring of 1917, in Co. A., 1st Vermont regiment. He went to Fort Ethan Allen and Framingham, Mass., and when the Massachusetts and Vermont troops were united he became a member of Co. C., 102nd machine gun battalion, 26th division and has been overseas in September 1917. He died on October 23, 1918 and is now buried in Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Departement de la Meuse, Lorraine, France.