 Excerpt: The Price of Our Heritage EWIN, Albert V., page 151, 99232 Corporal Headquarters Co. 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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