Bergstrom, Harry (Died 1918)

BERGSTROM

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Date: 3/29/2012 at 20:49:14

LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
July 15, 1921

MEMBER OF COMPANY K
HARRY BERGSTROM TO BE BURIED WITH MILITARY HONORS

Chas. Bergstrom has been notified that the body of his son, Harry Bergstrom,
who was killed in action in France, was shipped from Jersey City on
Wednesday afternoon and is expected in Hudson, South Dakota, for burial on
Monday or Tuesday afternoon. Harry enlisted in Co. K and went to Camp Cody
with them and was later sent to France with replacement troops. Owing to the
similarity of names, there was some question as to the identity of the Harry
Bergstrom who was killed, but his photograph was finally identified by a man
who was fighting at his side when he fell. Capts. Koenig and Butler and
several other former K men plan to attend the funeral.
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LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
July 19, 1921

IS GIVEN SOLDIER BURIAL
HARRY BERGSTROM’S BODY BURIED AT HUDSON

Jacob G. Koenig, Clay Butler, Dr. H. F. Rubel, C. Lorenzen, H. Beck, Chas.
Clair, H. Hastert, W. Utech and F. O. Jacobs went to Hudson, S.D., on Sunday
to attend the funeral of Harry Bergstrom. Harry Bergstrom died from wounds
received while fighting in the Argonne woods in France, on October 16, 1918.
He was in the thick of the fight and had been previously wounded and gassed
and had been in the hospital prior to the fight in the Argonne, but had
rejoined his company. He volunteered for service before he was eighteen
years of age and was a member of old Company K, and was on the border before
going across to France. He was only nineteen years of age when he fell in
battle, fighting for his country.

The funeral was attended by four thousand people, and the services were held
in the opera house at Hudson, and the procession from the hall to the grave
side was a mile and a half in length. Rev. J. J. Steele, of Sioux City, a
former LeMars pastor, preached the funeral sermon. Schoolmates of Harry
Bergstrom, who spent his early boyhood days near Hudson before coming to
LeMars, acted as pallbearers, and the members of old Company K acted as
escort and fired a last volley over the grave of their comrade.