Albert V. Ewin
Corporal, Headquaters Company
#99232
Died July 22, 1918, at Base Hospital No. 15, at Chaumont, France.
Son of Mr. and
Mrs. Matthew
Erwin, Seney, Iowa.
While serving with the pioneer platoon of the Headquarters
Company as a
burying party in the Champagne Defensive. Corporal Ewin contracted pneumonia.
His lungs were
weak, due to two previous attacks, and he was not able to overcome the disease.
Corporal Ewin
was a splendid soldier, always willing to do more than his share, fair in
everything and liked by
his whole platoon.
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