Benjamin R Dorrough
Kentucky Post, Monday, 14 April 1941, page 9
VETERAN-Military honors will be accorded Sergt. Benjamin R Dorrough at 2 pm Monday when funeral services are conducted at the Service Club at Ft Thomas Army Post. Sergt. Dorrough, 52, died Saturday at the post hospital of a heart attack. Sergt. Dorrough was outstanding adn the best known non-commissioned soldier at Ft Thomas, due to his long army service.
He had served nine "hitches" with the army and was to have been retired in 1943. He had served longer at Ft Thomas than any other enlisted man. He enlisted in 1912 and served overseas during the World War with Company F, 42nd Infantry. He was stationed at Ft Thomas at the close of the war and with the exception of three years elsewhere on recruiting duty had been at Ft Thomas since. He was 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighed 266 pounds. Each time he re-enlisted he had to obtain special dispensation because he did not fit the height-girth specifications of the Army. He required special made uniforms.
Pall bearers for the funeral will be other veteran soldiers now at Ft Thomas. Following the funeral the body was to e sent to Shenandoah Va. the sergeant's birthplace for burial. He leaves a sisters, Mrs. Margaret Beaughan, and a brother, James Dorrough, both of Shenandoah.