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Soldier Summary

Military History

Rank: Private

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

Collection

Events

Event	Date	Place	Details
Residence		Copemish, MI
Birth		Marilla, MI
Entered service^[1]	6/24/1918	Fort Custer (Mich.)	Camp Custer, Mich. Pvt. Co.16, 160th D.B.
Arrived Archangel, Russia. Was on active duty with his unit, Co. M., on the rr front^[1]	9/4/1918
Arrived home at his parents farm in Marilla, Mich.^[1]	2/22/1919
Buried in Marilla Township Cemetery^[1]	3/14/1919
Died^[1]	3/12/1919		at home
Discharged at Camp Custer, Mich. 3rd Co. C Convalescent Center, 160th D Brigade^[1]	2/20/1919
Hospitalized, Red Cross Hospital in Archangel, Articular Rheumatism^[1]	11/19-25/1918
Left England for Russia on the Somalia^[1]	8/1918
Left England, arriving NY Jan.13, hospitalized at debarkation hospital in NY^[1]	1/1919
Left U.S. for England, trained there at Bullswater Camp^[1]	7/21/1918
Listed by Convalescent Depot, U.S. Troops, with men unfit for duty: Articular Rheumatism ^[1]	11/26/1918
Listed by Office Chief Surgeon, Supplemental list of Convalescents recommended for return to England: Arthritis, chronic, general^[1]	11/26/1918
Listed with Convalescents for evacuation: arthritis, chronic, general^[1]	12/2/1918
Loss from flu and exposure^[2]	11/1918
Ordered to be evacuated to England^[1]	11/30/1918
Sailed on the Baltic from Archangel to hospital in England^[1]	12/7/1918
Suffered a paralytic stroke at home^[1]	3/10/1919
Transferred from NY Hospital to Camp Custer, Mich.^[1]	1/1919
Birth	3/5/1887
Died	3/12/1919

Sources

[1]Golden C. Bahr papers, 1918-1919

[2]"M" Company 339th infantry in North Russia