Source: Photo of No. 1 Platoon, A Company, 70th Battalion posted by David Archer.
Family Search: When Private Herbert Leonard McPartling was born on 16 March 1884, in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland, his father, Edward Leslie McPartling, was 47 and his mother, Bridget Teresa Ryan, was 28. He married Mary Eunice Wilson on 17 April 1923, in Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He immigrated to Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States in 1938 and lived in Topeka, Lawrence, Mississippi, United States in 1921. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 31, his occupation is listed as salesman. He died on 15 August 1962, in Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Penwell-Gabel Cemetery and Mausoleum, Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 