Alonzo Richmond Green, known as Lonnie, was the only Sugar Land soldier to lose his life while serving in World War I. Born in Sebastopol, Mississippi, on Dec. 21, 1892, he moved with his family to Sugar Land sometime between 1912 and 1916, attended the First Presbyterian Church of Sugar Land with his parents and siblings, and hoped to become a Presbyterian minister before leaving for army induction at Camp Travis in San Antonio on the very day he was to begin his religious studies. He rose to sergeant in the machine gun battalion of the 180th Texas Brigade, part of the 360th Infantry Regiment of the 90th Infantry Division, and after the earliest Camp Travis enlistees left for France in late May 1918, he would have taken part in the St. Mihiel Offensive in September 1918 and then in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, a major western Allied campaign that helped bring about Germany's defeat and the Armistice of Nov. 11, 1918. Although no record shows how or in which battle he was wounded, shortly before his death he unexpectedly encountered his brother Lee in France, when Lee, serving in the Army's 45th Infantry Division after a transfer from the Machine Gun Company to the Motor Supply Train as a truck driver, saw his wounded brother passing by while waiting for his truck to be unloaded. Neither brother believed the wounds were serious, but Lonnie died of his injuries on Nov. 3, 1918, and was buried in France at the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery near Romagne, just seven weeks before his twenty-sixth birthday. After the war Lee returned home, and Lonnie's mother Anna Green later joined the World War Mothers' Pilgrimage to France, where she was finally able to visit her son's grave.