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Pvt Otto Troester

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Pvt Otto Troester

Birth
Millville, Clayton County, Iowa, USA
Death
2 Oct 1918 (aged 23)
Warwickshire, England
Burial
Guttenberg, Clayton County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
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Private Otto Troester, died of disease while serving his country during WWI.
When he registered for the draft in June 1917, he was employed as a farm laborer near McGregor. Otto was enumerated on the 1900 U.S. census, Clayton co. Mallory twp. living with his parents John & Emma Troester and siblings.

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According to the burial registers he died in a Southampton Military Hospital in 1918 aged 25 years. He was buried in Magdalen Hill Cemetery on 9th October 1918 with full military honours. His remains were exhumed on 27th April 1920 by order of the Home Office who worked in conjunction with the families of the deceased. The families were given the option of having their loved ones re-interred in a US Military Cemetery in the UK or repatriation to the US.
Many of these servicemen and women contracted the influenza either in the Training camps in the US or the transport ships bringing them to the South Of England. There were vast military camps in this area preparing to send the troops to France. Sadly many of those with the flu developed Pneumonia which they succumbed to.
Burial Information provided by Find a Grave Contributor: Lorraine Boardman (46995392)
Private Otto Troester, died of disease while serving his country during WWI.
When he registered for the draft in June 1917, he was employed as a farm laborer near McGregor. Otto was enumerated on the 1900 U.S. census, Clayton co. Mallory twp. living with his parents John & Emma Troester and siblings.

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According to the burial registers he died in a Southampton Military Hospital in 1918 aged 25 years. He was buried in Magdalen Hill Cemetery on 9th October 1918 with full military honours. His remains were exhumed on 27th April 1920 by order of the Home Office who worked in conjunction with the families of the deceased. The families were given the option of having their loved ones re-interred in a US Military Cemetery in the UK or repatriation to the US.
Many of these servicemen and women contracted the influenza either in the Training camps in the US or the transport ships bringing them to the South Of England. There were vast military camps in this area preparing to send the troops to France. Sadly many of those with the flu developed Pneumonia which they succumbed to.
Burial Information provided by Find a Grave Contributor: Lorraine Boardman (46995392)

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