PVT US ARMY
Correction provided by Bruce and Wendy Linz: Private, United States Marine Corps. Served with the 17th Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 2nd Division, American Expeditionary Force.
Newbern, Tenn., Jan. 27 - Word has reached Newbern from the War Department at Washington, D.C., announcing the death of Robert Edgar Austin, a prominent Dyer countian, who died in a base hospital behind the firing lines in France, from being severely wounded while fighting for freedom on the western front in France. (Published in The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN, on January 28, 1919)
Correction provided by Bruce and Wendy Linz: Private, United States Marine Corps. Served with the 17th Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 2nd Division, American Expeditionary Force.
Newbern, Tenn., Jan. 27 - Word has reached Newbern from the War Department at Washington, D.C., announcing the death of Robert Edgar Austin, a prominent Dyer countian, who died in a base hospital behind the firing lines in France, from being severely wounded while fighting for freedom on the western front in France. (Published in The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN, on January 28, 1919)
PVT US ARMY
Correction provided by Bruce and Wendy Linz: Private, United States Marine Corps. Served with the 17th Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 2nd Division, American Expeditionary Force.
Newbern, Tenn., Jan. 27 - Word has reached Newbern from the War Department at Washington, D.C., announcing the death of Robert Edgar Austin, a prominent Dyer countian, who died in a base hospital behind the firing lines in France, from being severely wounded while fighting for freedom on the western front in France. (Published in The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN, on January 28, 1919)
Correction provided by Bruce and Wendy Linz: Private, United States Marine Corps. Served with the 17th Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 2nd Division, American Expeditionary Force.
Newbern, Tenn., Jan. 27 - Word has reached Newbern from the War Department at Washington, D.C., announcing the death of Robert Edgar Austin, a prominent Dyer countian, who died in a base hospital behind the firing lines in France, from being severely wounded while fighting for freedom on the western front in France. (Published in The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN, on January 28, 1919)
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ROBERT E. AUSTIN
Tennessee
Pvt. 5 U. S. Marine Corps
2 Div
July 23, 1918
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