… Final Honors to Birney Miller Hodge Attended by Large Number People: Army, Navy, and Marines Represented at Services Held Tuesday Evening Final honors were paid to the memory of Corporal Burney Miller Hodge at the Christian tabernacle Tuesday evening in the presence of a vast concourse of people composed of friends and acquaintances of the young soldier and of the immediate family whose home for many years was in Brownwood.
… Corporal Hodge enlisted at Cheyenne, Wyoming, August 10, 1917 and went almost immediately to the front overseas, as a member of the famous Sunset Division, or the Forty-first Division. This division saw heroic service at the second battle of the Marne, at St. Mihels and fought for forty-seven days in the historic battles of the Argonne, the turning point in the great war. At the conclusion of the war, following the signing of the armistice, November 11, 1919, he was sent with the Army of Occupation to Germany and died at Coblenz, April 30, 1919, the body being interred in the American Cemetery at that place. With thousands of other Americans the body was shipped to the United States and arrived at Brownwood Sunday morning, August 1st. Final interment took place in Greenleaf Cemetery at Brownwood, Tuesday evening.
… Corporal Hodge enlisted at Cheyenne, Wyoming, August 10, 1917 and went almost immediately to the front overseas, as a member of the famous Sunset Division, or the Forty-first Division. This division saw heroic service at the second battle of the Marne, at St. Mihels and fought for forty-seven days in the historic battles of the Argonne, the turning point in the great war. At the conclusion of the war, following the signing of the armistice, November 11, 1919, he was sent with the Army of Occupation to Germany and died at Coblenz, April 30, 1919, the body being interred in the American Cemetery at that place. With thousands of other Americans the body was shipped to the United States and arrived at Brownwood Sunday morning, August 1st. Final interment took place in Greenleaf Cemetery at Brownwood, Tuesday evening.
… Final Honors to Birney Miller Hodge Attended by Large Number People: Army, Navy, and Marines Represented at Services Held Tuesday Evening Final honors were paid to the memory of Corporal Burney Miller Hodge at the Christian tabernacle Tuesday evening in the presence of a vast concourse of people composed of friends and acquaintances of the young soldier and of the immediate family whose home for many years was in Brownwood.
… Corporal Hodge enlisted at Cheyenne, Wyoming, August 10, 1917 and went almost immediately to the front overseas, as a member of the famous Sunset Division, or the Forty-first Division. This division saw heroic service at the second battle of the Marne, at St. Mihels and fought for forty-seven days in the historic battles of the Argonne, the turning point in the great war. At the conclusion of the war, following the signing of the armistice, November 11, 1919, he was sent with the Army of Occupation to Germany and died at Coblenz, April 30, 1919, the body being interred in the American Cemetery at that place. With thousands of other Americans the body was shipped to the United States and arrived at Brownwood Sunday morning, August 1st. Final interment took place in Greenleaf Cemetery at Brownwood, Tuesday evening.
… Corporal Hodge enlisted at Cheyenne, Wyoming, August 10, 1917 and went almost immediately to the front overseas, as a member of the famous Sunset Division, or the Forty-first Division. This division saw heroic service at the second battle of the Marne, at St. Mihels and fought for forty-seven days in the historic battles of the Argonne, the turning point in the great war. At the conclusion of the war, following the signing of the armistice, November 11, 1919, he was sent with the Army of Occupation to Germany and died at Coblenz, April 30, 1919, the body being interred in the American Cemetery at that place. With thousands of other Americans the body was shipped to the United States and arrived at Brownwood Sunday morning, August 1st. Final interment took place in Greenleaf Cemetery at Brownwood, Tuesday evening.
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