Clark Thatcher

Private, Company K 168th Infantry

     Died April 1919. Relative's address, U. C. Thatcher, Kingsley, Iowa. 

     Enlisted April 10, 1917.  Served with 168th. Gassed on June 18, 1918.  Rejoined the regiment on August 14th, transferred to Divisional Headquarters and returned to his company just before the armistice was signed.  While in Germany he was sent to the hospital on December 20 to 26 and returned to the company and again sent to the hospital on January 22.  He was sent from there to America where he arrived March 26th at Newport News and from there to Spartansburg, South Carolina, where he died about the middle of April.

Oscar Althar

Private, Company L

      Relative's address, Mrs. Anna Bell Althar,  128 Exchange Street, Keokuk, Iowa. Private Althar enlisted July 30th, 1917 and after we had moved to Camp Mills was taken sick and sent to the hospital in New York City.  From there he was sent to Baltimore for an operation. He was given an honorable discharge and returned to his home. He was taken ill, sent to the hospital, where he died on July 21, 1918.  He was 19 years of age. He was given a military funeral and buried at Wayland, Missouri.