• Born: 1 July 1898, Shelbyville, Shelby County, Illinois, USA
• Marriage (1): Mabel ARTERBURN on 25 September 1917 in Vigo County, Indiana, USA ¹
• Died: 21 September 1918, France at age 20
• Buried: 1918, France

   Other names for Roy were H. Roy VANDERPOOL, Pvt. R. W. VANDERPOOL and Roy VANDERPOOL.

  Recorded Events in His Life

• Cenotaph: A memorial exists for Roy in Glenwood Cemetery in Shelbyville, Shelby County, Illinois, USA, although he is buried elsewhere.

• He has conflicting birth information of 1 July 1891 and Shelbyville, Shelby County, Illinois, USA. ³ Roy lies about his age on his marriage license.

• He was buried at the unknown cemetery in France.

• Military Induction: 4 August 1915.

• Roy's military enlistment is noted in the newspaper on page 5 of The Daily Review on 23 April 1917 in Decatur, Macon County, Illinois, USA.

• "Young Shelby Soldier Wounded" — a Pana newspaper reports that Roy is injured about 16 September 1918 in Pana, Christian County, Illinois, USA.

• He has conflicting death information of 25 September 1918 and Dartford, Kent, England.

• Roy is listed as severely wounded on page 4 of The Washington Post on 2 October 1918 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.

• The Pana newspaper reports on Roy's death about October 1918 in Pana, Christian County, Illinois, USA.

• He has conflicting death information of 12 October 1918 and France.

• Biography: Shelby County in the World War, page 93,, in 1919, in Decatur, Macon County, Illinois, USA.
  
  ROY VANDERPOOL
  
     Roy Vanderpool, born and reared in Shelbyville and a son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Vanderpool, now of Pana, Ill., died in France because of his bravery and in sacrifice for others.  Facing the boche snipers in the town of Albert and disregarding the advice of a British Tommie to "make it to the rear," Vanderpool kept up an incessant fire that did much to cover the retreat of his comrades to a place of safety, only to become the target of an enemy bullet that resulted in his death a little later.
  
     Roy Vanderpool was 20 years old, having been born in Shelbyville in 1908 [1898]. In 1915, when but 17 years old, he enlisted in Company H of the old Fourth regiment, Illinois National Guard. He was on the Mexican border with this organization in 1916-17, and left Shelbyville with Company H, later a unit of the 130th U. S. Inf., for Camp Logan, Houston, Texas, October 9, 1917. Later he accompanied it overseas, and was with it in action when he received his mortal wound. At this particular time each platoon of H company was attached to a British company, and acting under orders of the British commanders.  A daylight patrol of 40 English soldiers and one American from each platoon was ordered into Albert, which was in No Man's Land and infested with German snipers.  Vanderpool volunteered from his platoon and while pouring his fire into the enemy after entering the town was hit by a sniper's bullet fired from the top of a Cathedral. He was carried out under dangerous fire and after several weeks in a field hospital was conveyed to the base hospital, where he died October 12, 1918.
  
     Lieutenant McConnough said of him: "They got the best man I had in my platoon."
  
     Roy Vanderpool Post, American Legion, Shelbyville, Ill., has been named in his honor.
  
  
  — Profile of Roy Vanderpool published on page 93 of Shelby County in the World War by Shelby County War Historians (Decatur, IL: Review Press, 1919, 224 pp).

• The newspaper published an article about Roy's family receiving a letter from an army comrade in April 1919 in Pana, Christian County, Illinois, USA.

• Roy Vanderpool was honored when an American Legion Post was named after him, as reported on page 2 of The Daily Review on 16 June 1919 in Decatur, Macon County, Illinois, USA.

Roy married Mabel ARTERBURN, daughter of Harry Willard ARTERBURN and Rose LINDER, on 25 September 1917 in Vigo County, Indiana, USA.¹ (Mabel ARTERBURN was born on 23 April 1902 in Mattoon, Coles County, Illinois, USA.)

  Recorded Events about their Marriage

• Gallery: Marriage Record, on 25 September 1917, in Vigo County, Indiana, USA.