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Fred Lebrun

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Fred Lebrun

Birth
Oconto, Oconto County, Wisconsin, USA
Death
4 Oct 1918 (aged 27)
Hampshire, England
Burial
Oconto, Oconto County, Wisconsin, USA Add to Map
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S37, R5
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Cook 353rd Machine Gun Btln 86th Div: Died in Service

I have been working on a project regarding my local Cemetery in Winchester England. Magdalen Hill Cemetery is in the same road that I live in. During WW1 551 US Personnel were buried there with full military Honours. Many of them were young soldiers freshly out of training in the US. Sadly they contracted the Influenza either in the training camps in the US, or on the ships travelling over to the UK en-route to France. often the Influenza progressed to pneumonia, which sadly caused their deaths. I have information regarding this soldier which I thought you might like to use. Fred died in the Portsmouth Military Hospital In Hampshire England and was buried in the Cemetery on 5th October 1918. The Burial records show his age as 28 years. In 1920 the authorities here worked with the families to exhume the remains. At the request of the families they were either moved to Brookwood American Military Cemetery in Surrey, England or repatriated to the USA for re-burial there. It would appear that his family requested for him to be reinterred in the US. His remains were exhumed on 16 April 1920, and sent back to the US. His body left Southampton England on 11 May 1920 onboard The Princess Matoika and arrived in Hoboken New Jersey on 23 May 1920. He was then handed over to his next of Kin, Fred Lebrun Senior of 420 Gale Street Oconto, Wisconsin. I hope this information will be of help to you and others.
Lorraine Boardman
Cook 353rd Machine Gun Btln 86th Div: Died in Service

I have been working on a project regarding my local Cemetery in Winchester England. Magdalen Hill Cemetery is in the same road that I live in. During WW1 551 US Personnel were buried there with full military Honours. Many of them were young soldiers freshly out of training in the US. Sadly they contracted the Influenza either in the training camps in the US, or on the ships travelling over to the UK en-route to France. often the Influenza progressed to pneumonia, which sadly caused their deaths. I have information regarding this soldier which I thought you might like to use. Fred died in the Portsmouth Military Hospital In Hampshire England and was buried in the Cemetery on 5th October 1918. The Burial records show his age as 28 years. In 1920 the authorities here worked with the families to exhume the remains. At the request of the families they were either moved to Brookwood American Military Cemetery in Surrey, England or repatriated to the USA for re-burial there. It would appear that his family requested for him to be reinterred in the US. His remains were exhumed on 16 April 1920, and sent back to the US. His body left Southampton England on 11 May 1920 onboard The Princess Matoika and arrived in Hoboken New Jersey on 23 May 1920. He was then handed over to his next of Kin, Fred Lebrun Senior of 420 Gale Street Oconto, Wisconsin. I hope this information will be of help to you and others.
Lorraine Boardman

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Died of pneumonia during the 1918 epidemic according to Wisconsin gold star list.

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