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Soldier Summary

Soldier Summary

Bahr, Golden Charles.

Military History

Rank

Private

Unit

United States. Army. Infantry, 339th. Company M.

Collection

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Events

Event

Date

Place

Details

Event

Residence

Date

-

Place

Copemish, MI

Details

-

Event

Birth

Date

-

Place

Marilla, MI

Details

-

Event

Entered service

Date

6/24/1918

Place

Fort Custer (Mich.)

Details

Camp Custer, Mich. Pvt. Co.16, 160th D.B.

Event

Arrived Archangel, Russia. Was on active duty with his unit, Co. M., on the rr front

Date

9/4/1918

Place

-

Details

-

Event

Arrived home at his parents farm in Marilla, Mich.

Date

2/22/1919

Place

-

Details

-

Event

Buried in Marilla Township Cemetery

Date

3/14/1919

Place

-

Details

-

Event

Died

Date

3/12/1919

Place

-

Details

at home

Event

Discharged at Camp Custer, Mich. 3rd Co. C Convalescent Center, 160th D Brigade

Date

2/20/1919

Place

-

Details

-

Event

Hospitalized, Red Cross Hospital in Archangel, Articular Rheumatism

Date

11/19-25/1918

Place

-

Details

-

Event

Left England for Russia on the Somalia

Date

8/1918

Place

-

Details

-

Event

Left England, arriving NY Jan.13, hospitalized at debarkation hospital in NY

Date

1/1919

Place

-

Details

-

Event

Left U.S. for England, trained there at Bullswater Camp

Date

7/21/1918

Place

-

Details

-

Event

Listed by Convalescent Depot, U.S. Troops, with men unfit for duty: Articular Rheumatism

Date

11/26/1918

Place

-

Details

-

Event

Listed by Office Chief Surgeon, Supplemental list of Convalescents recommended for return to England: Arthritis, chronic, general

Date

11/26/1918

Place

-

Details

-

Event

Listed with Convalescents for evacuation: arthritis, chronic, general

Date

12/2/1918

Place

-

Details

-

Event

Loss from flu and exposure

Date

11/1918

Place

-

Details

-

Event

Ordered to be evacuated to England

Date

11/30/1918

Place

-

Details

-

Event

Sailed on the Baltic from Archangel to hospital in England

Date

12/7/1918

Place

-

Details

-

Event

Suffered a paralytic stroke at home

Date

3/10/1919

Place

-

Details

-

Event

Transferred from NY Hospital to Camp Custer, Mich.

Date

1/1919

Place

-

Details

-

Event

Birth

Date

3/5/1887

Place

-

Details

-

Event

Died

Date

3/12/1919

Place

-

Details

-

Sources

  • "M" Company 339th infantry in North Russia
  • Golden C. Bahr papers, 1918-1919
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