from several news clippings of Jacksonville FL newspapers and funeral notice in 18 Nov of 1918:
Local Boy Dies Aboard Ship on Way to France. News of the death at sea from natural causes on October 18, 1918 of Pvt Clifford H Thompson, headquarters company 116th machine gun battalion, Dixie Division was received yesterday by his parents, Mr and Mrs Joe Thompson, 518 Cedar st. Pvt Thompson sailed for France in the first days of October with the --- division that trained at Camp Wheeler, GA. Details are unknown except that his death was from natural causes, as stated in the message from the war department. He was a Jacksonville boy and enlisted on April 7, 1917 with Company D, first separate battalion, Florida National Guard. He went into training at Camp Wheeler with the First Florida Infantry into which the first separate battalion was merged and when this regiment was broken up was transferred to the 116th Machine gun battalion and placed on duty with the headquarters company, commanded by First Lieut Magnus H Altmayer, also of Jacksonville. The funeral was held at 2pm on 18 or 19 November from the Marcus Conant parlor and "will be accompanied to the Evergreen cemetery by a military escord. Remains will be laid to rest in the family plot."
Local Boy Dies Aboard Ship on Way to France. News of the death at sea from natural causes on October 18, 1918 of Pvt Clifford H Thompson, headquarters company 116th machine gun battalion, Dixie Division was received yesterday by his parents, Mr and Mrs Joe Thompson, 518 Cedar st. Pvt Thompson sailed for France in the first days of October with the --- division that trained at Camp Wheeler, GA. Details are unknown except that his death was from natural causes, as stated in the message from the war department. He was a Jacksonville boy and enlisted on April 7, 1917 with Company D, first separate battalion, Florida National Guard. He went into training at Camp Wheeler with the First Florida Infantry into which the first separate battalion was merged and when this regiment was broken up was transferred to the 116th Machine gun battalion and placed on duty with the headquarters company, commanded by First Lieut Magnus H Altmayer, also of Jacksonville. The funeral was held at 2pm on 18 or 19 November from the Marcus Conant parlor and "will be accompanied to the Evergreen cemetery by a military escord. Remains will be laid to rest in the family plot."
from several news clippings of Jacksonville FL newspapers and funeral notice in 18 Nov of 1918:
Local Boy Dies Aboard Ship on Way to France. News of the death at sea from natural causes on October 18, 1918 of Pvt Clifford H Thompson, headquarters company 116th machine gun battalion, Dixie Division was received yesterday by his parents, Mr and Mrs Joe Thompson, 518 Cedar st. Pvt Thompson sailed for France in the first days of October with the --- division that trained at Camp Wheeler, GA. Details are unknown except that his death was from natural causes, as stated in the message from the war department. He was a Jacksonville boy and enlisted on April 7, 1917 with Company D, first separate battalion, Florida National Guard. He went into training at Camp Wheeler with the First Florida Infantry into which the first separate battalion was merged and when this regiment was broken up was transferred to the 116th Machine gun battalion and placed on duty with the headquarters company, commanded by First Lieut Magnus H Altmayer, also of Jacksonville. The funeral was held at 2pm on 18 or 19 November from the Marcus Conant parlor and "will be accompanied to the Evergreen cemetery by a military escord. Remains will be laid to rest in the family plot."
Local Boy Dies Aboard Ship on Way to France. News of the death at sea from natural causes on October 18, 1918 of Pvt Clifford H Thompson, headquarters company 116th machine gun battalion, Dixie Division was received yesterday by his parents, Mr and Mrs Joe Thompson, 518 Cedar st. Pvt Thompson sailed for France in the first days of October with the --- division that trained at Camp Wheeler, GA. Details are unknown except that his death was from natural causes, as stated in the message from the war department. He was a Jacksonville boy and enlisted on April 7, 1917 with Company D, first separate battalion, Florida National Guard. He went into training at Camp Wheeler with the First Florida Infantry into which the first separate battalion was merged and when this regiment was broken up was transferred to the 116th Machine gun battalion and placed on duty with the headquarters company, commanded by First Lieut Magnus H Altmayer, also of Jacksonville. The funeral was held at 2pm on 18 or 19 November from the Marcus Conant parlor and "will be accompanied to the Evergreen cemetery by a military escord. Remains will be laid to rest in the family plot."
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