Son of Marsena Lymen Amsberry of Knoxville, Marion County, Iowa and Emma Cacklin of Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois.
Ora B. Amsberry served in Company D, 355th Infantry, 89th Division of the United States Army during World War One. He sailed for France with the 89th Division on June 4th, 1918 and soon was in actual service upon the battlefield. He was engaged in the bloody St. Michiel drive on August 7th, he was gassed and sent to the hospital where he remained only a short time, returning to his company on August 19th.
Having returned to the trenches so soon after being gassed, the exposure and constant rains were too much for the strongest constitution and he was soon stricken with pneumonia and September 18th again found him in Hospital Number 58 where he died four days later.
A memorial service was held for Ora on Sunday, October 20, 1918 at the Methodist Church in Ansley, Nebraska. In 1921, his body was returned to Ansley from France and a funeral with full military honors was held on Sunday, June 12, 1921 at the Ansley Cemetery.
Ora B. Amsberry served in Company D, 355th Infantry, 89th Division of the United States Army during World War One. He sailed for France with the 89th Division on June 4th, 1918 and soon was in actual service upon the battlefield. He was engaged in the bloody St. Michiel drive on August 7th, he was gassed and sent to the hospital where he remained only a short time, returning to his company on August 19th.
Having returned to the trenches so soon after being gassed, the exposure and constant rains were too much for the strongest constitution and he was soon stricken with pneumonia and September 18th again found him in Hospital Number 58 where he died four days later.
A memorial service was held for Ora on Sunday, October 20, 1918 at the Methodist Church in Ansley, Nebraska. In 1921, his body was returned to Ansley from France and a funeral with full military honors was held on Sunday, June 12, 1921 at the Ansley Cemetery.
Son of Marsena Lymen Amsberry of Knoxville, Marion County, Iowa and Emma Cacklin of Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois.
Ora B. Amsberry served in Company D, 355th Infantry, 89th Division of the United States Army during World War One. He sailed for France with the 89th Division on June 4th, 1918 and soon was in actual service upon the battlefield. He was engaged in the bloody St. Michiel drive on August 7th, he was gassed and sent to the hospital where he remained only a short time, returning to his company on August 19th.
Having returned to the trenches so soon after being gassed, the exposure and constant rains were too much for the strongest constitution and he was soon stricken with pneumonia and September 18th again found him in Hospital Number 58 where he died four days later.
A memorial service was held for Ora on Sunday, October 20, 1918 at the Methodist Church in Ansley, Nebraska. In 1921, his body was returned to Ansley from France and a funeral with full military honors was held on Sunday, June 12, 1921 at the Ansley Cemetery.
Ora B. Amsberry served in Company D, 355th Infantry, 89th Division of the United States Army during World War One. He sailed for France with the 89th Division on June 4th, 1918 and soon was in actual service upon the battlefield. He was engaged in the bloody St. Michiel drive on August 7th, he was gassed and sent to the hospital where he remained only a short time, returning to his company on August 19th.
Having returned to the trenches so soon after being gassed, the exposure and constant rains were too much for the strongest constitution and he was soon stricken with pneumonia and September 18th again found him in Hospital Number 58 where he died four days later.
A memorial service was held for Ora on Sunday, October 20, 1918 at the Methodist Church in Ansley, Nebraska. In 1921, his body was returned to Ansley from France and a funeral with full military honors was held on Sunday, June 12, 1921 at the Ansley Cemetery.
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