Redfield, South Dakota, 1897.
My grandmother is the baby in the white dress on her father's lap.
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Joseph F. Rusting was a great uncle of mine who was killed in acton on September 26, 1918, the first day of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
He was one of approximately 117,000 Americans killed in the Great War for Civilization, as it is called on the reverse of the World War I Service Medal.
His sister, one of my grandmothers, was a telegraph operator in San Francisco at the time. She was the operator who received the telegram informing her family of her brother's death.
Memorial Day, 2014 is just weeks before the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I.
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Joseph F. Rusting was a great uncle of mine who was killed in acton on September 26, 1918, the first day of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
He was one of approximately 117,000 Americans killed in the Great War for Civilization, as it is called on the reverse of the World War I Service Medal.
His sister, one of my grandmothers, was a telegraph operator in San Francisco at the time. She was the operator who received the telegram informing her family of her brother's death.
Memorial Day, 2014 is just weeks before the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I.
Tags: Joseph F. Rusting US Army World War I AEF France Meuse-Argonne Offensive Meuse-Argonne Argonne Forest killed in action Memorial Day American Soldier family history 500+ views
Joseph F. Rusting was a great uncle of mine who was killed in acton on September 26, 1918, the first day of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
He was one of approximately 117,000 Americans killed in the Great War for Civilization, as it is called on the reverse of the World War I Service Medal.
His sister, one of my grandmothers, was a telegraph operator in San Francisco at the time. She was the operator who received the telegram informing her family of her brother's death.
Memorial Day, 2014 is just weeks before the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I.
Tags: 500+ views Joseph F. Rusting US Army World War I AEF France Meuse-Argonne Offensive Meuse-Argonne Argonne Forest killed in action Memorial Day American Soldier family history
Formal card received by my great uncle's family after he was killed in action.
Joseph F. Rusting was a great uncle of mine who was killed in acton on September 26, 1918, the first day of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
He was one of approximately 117,000 Americans killed in the Great War for Civilization, as it is called on the reverse of the World War I Service Medal.
His sister, one of my grandmothers, was a telegraph operator in San Francisco at the time. She was the operator who received the telegram informing her family of her brother's death.
Memorial Day, 2014 is just weeks before the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I.
Tags: Joseph F. Rusting US Army World War I AEF France Meuse-Argonne Offensive Meuse-Argonne Argonne Forest killed in action Memorial Day American Soldier family history