Seattle-born Lloyd Thomas Cochran was the middle of three sons born to William Cochran and his wife, Lena Sather, a native of Norway. A 1912 graduate of Ballard High School, Lloyd attended the University of Washington graduating with a law degree in 1917. Even before the US entered the war, Lloyd had applied to the first Officers Training School at the Presidio and been awarded a commission. At the time his unit shipped overseas in July of 1918, Lloyd was a 2nd Lieutenant with Company F of the 363rd Infantry Regiment which was part of the 91st Infantry Division \u2014 known as the \u201cWild West Division\u201d \u2014 out of Camp Lewis. Lloyd was the first man of Company F to be killed. Cochran was killed by a German sniper as he led his unit in a charge on the first day of the battle of Meuse-Argonne, September 26, 1918. <\/p>\n
Just minutes before he and his company had discovered \u201ca German machine gun \u201cnest\u201d with six or eight Germans around it. A German prisoner, who had escaped the bombardment had been captured a half hour before and was questioned sharply. He lied about the location of the machine gun but Cochran said not to handle the prisoner too rough as he would not like to be mistreated himself if a prisoner\u201d as reported in the Seattle Daily Times in a series of articles written by Colin Dyment, Director of the UW\u2019s School of Journalism. (Seattle Daily Times, Apr 14, 1919, pg. 7). Dyment goes on to say the German snipers responsible for Lloyd\u2019s death were \u201cpromptly executed\u201d. Originally buried at Bois de Cheppy, in France, Lloyd was reinterred in Seattle\u2019s Evergreen-Washington Cemetery. (bit.ly\/uw_cochran<\/a>) American Legion Post No. 40 in Ballard is named in his honor. (www.facebook.com\/BallardPost40<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":158,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"memorial-war":[7],"class_list":["post-157","memorial-profile","type-memorial-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","memorial-war-world-war-i"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/vetlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/memorial-profile\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/vetlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/memorial-profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/vetlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/memorial-profile"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/vetlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/vetlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"memorial-war","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/vetlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/memorial-war?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}