Clyde Lower Bream served as a 2nd Lieutenant in Company B, 128th U.S. Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division, United States Army during World War I.

He enlisted in the Army on June 13, 1917, and was discharged on May 15, 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey.

He was a son of F. Mark Bream and Minnie (Lower) Bream.

NOTICE IN THE GETTYSBURG TIMES FOR CLYDE L. BREAM

NOW A LIEUTENANT.

GETTYSBURG SOLDIER EARNS HIS COMMISSION IN FRANCE.

Clyde L. Bream, who was regimental supply sergeant of the 58th Infantry, has been commissioned second lieutenant of infantry, according to a cable received by his father, F. Mark Bream, Carlisle Street.

(From THE GETTYSBURG TIMES, Monday, October 21, 1918)

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High School News

Clyde Bream and Frederick English shot a six-pronged buck while hunting deer last week.

(From the ADAMS COUNTY NEWS, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Saturday, November 28, 1908, Page 1, Column 5)

He was interred in the Gettysburg National Cemetery on January 23, 1940.

CLYDE BREAM DIES; VETERAN OF WORLD WAR; G-BURG GRAD

Clyde Lower Bream, 46, 202 Carlisle Street, World War veteran, and for the last three years a National Youth Administration offical in this section of the state, died suddenly at 10:40 o'clock Friday evening in the office of Dr. Edgar A. Miller, Baltimore Street. An embolism caused death.

Mr. Bream had attended a show of magic at the Gettysburg high school auditorium during the evening, and was on his way home when he was taken suddenly ill when he stopped his car at a red traffic light at Baltimore and Middle Streets.

He directed his companion, Clair Rebert, of Guernsey, to take the wheel and drive immediately to the office of Doctor Miller. Rebert assisted Mr. Bream into Doctor Miller's home and as the physician prepared to administer a hypodermic, Mr. Bream died.

He had been suffering for some time from a heart condition but had been in usual health Friday. His most recent attack occurred on a deer hunting trip upstate last month. He recovered, continued hunting, and brought home a deer.

NATIVE OF CASHTOWN

A native of Cashtown, the deceased was a son of F. Mark and Minnie (Lower) Bream, with whom he resided on Carlisle Street. He came to Gettysburg at about the age of four years when his parents moved here.

He was graduated from Gettysburg High School in 1910 and four years later, graduated from Gettysburg college. After spending two years in Louisiana, he returned to Gettysburg and worked until 1917 as a salesman for the John C. Lower company here.

He enlisted with the 4th Infantry a few days after that unit arrived at Camp Colt in 1917. The unit later became the 58th Infantry and he served as regimental supply sergeant. He was stationed at Camp Colt from May of 1917 to November of that year when he was transferred to Camp Green, Charlotte, North Carolina, and then to Camp Mills, Long Island, from where he sailed for France aboard the Muldavia.

The ship was torpedoed as it crossed the English Channel and sank with the loss of about 57 lives. Mr. Bream served in France until the spring of 1919 and was with the First Army of Occupation in Germany.

FORMER BATTLEFIELD GUIDE

Mr. Bream saw action in the battles of Chateau-Thierry and the Meuse-Argonne and soon afterwards was commissioned as a second lieutenant and assigned to Company B, 128th Infantry. He was mustered out of the service on May 10, 1919 at Camp Dix.

He had been a battlefield guide here for a number of years since the war. About three years ago he accepted a position with the National Youth Administration and for recent months had been a supervisor for that work in Adams and Cumberland counties. Previously he had been assigned to duties in Franklin and Fulton counties, also.

He was one of the organizers and the second commander of the Albert J. Lentz post, No. 202, of the American Legion.

He belonged to the Good Samaritan lodge, No. 336, of the Free and Accepted Order of Masons of Gettysburg. He was a member of the Gettysburg Camp of the Sons of Union Veterans and belonged to the Harrisburg unit of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

SERVICES ON TUESDAY

Mr. Bream was widely known as a sportsman and was active in the affairs of the Adams County Fish and Game association.

He was a member of the St. James Lutheran Church of Gettysburg.

Surviving besides his parents is a sister, Mrs. W. S. Mellinger, Leetonia, Ohio, who came here this morning with her husband.

Mr. Bream was never married.

Funeral services from the H. B. Bender and son funeral home, Carlisle Street, on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock with the Rev. Dwight F. Putman, pastor of Christ Lutheran church, officiating. Interment in the National cemetery.

Friends may call Monday evening from 7 to 9 o'clock at the Bender funeral home.

(From THE GETTYSBURG TIMES, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Saturday Evening, January 20, 1940)