New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1920-05-12

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member Of former Company A, Secoud
Minnesota National Guards, Of this
city and served on the Mexican border
during the strained relations between
the United States and that country prior
to the World war. During the latter
conflict he was attached to Company I,
Thirty -ninth Infantry, U. S.. Regulars.
Listed Among Missing
On July Is, 1918, he was called into
the service with a number, of New Ul,n
young men, leaving for st. Peter to join
Company K. After spending few
weeks there, the boys We're sent to Bur
lington, n. NJ, for brief period of in
tensiVe training, whereupon the detach-
ment was ordered overseas, landing at
Oxford, England. The only letter Mrs.
Schueler received fromher sonwas written
by him Aug. %, 1918, and arrived here
in September. Shortly afterward she
noticed his name in the list Of missing
and a little later came q message from the
War Department sabstantiating her
fears that he had made the supreme
sacrifice.
Letter From Red Cross.
Some time ago, Mrs. Schueler received
a letter from the National Head quarters
Of the American Red Cross, Washington
D: c., accompanied by photographs Of
her sons grave, and the following ex-
preston Of coincidence: with deep
sympathy in your loss the American Red
Cross sends you the photograph Of the
grave Of this American Soldier who gave
his life for his country"
The letter from the Red Cross Nation
al Headquarters reads in part, as follows:
'sThe Red Cross desires to give you
certain information concerning photo
graphs Of graves which are being given
to relatives Of our American dead,
''The Red Cross has carried on the
work Of photographing and distributing
these pictures by authority and under
the direction Of the Graves Registration
Service Of the Army. It should be
understood, however, that the Red Cross
has nothing whatever to do with location
of graves, the disposition Of bodies, or
the Inscriptions on the crosses. All
correspondence on these matters should
be addressed to Col. Charles C. Pierce,
Chief, Graves Registration Service,
Washington, d. G.
s.Three copies Of each photograph of a
soldiers grave are being sent to his next
Of kin or emergency addressee. Ac-
cording to the records of the Adjutant
Generals office, the Graves Registration
Service and the Red Cross, you are the
person entitled to receive the enclosed
pictures. Neither time nor pains have
been spared in our operative effort to
insure the utmost accuracy.
Should the picture you are now re-
ceiving show the location of the grave
to be different from the one stated in the
official notice originally sent you, you are
assured that this is due to the, fact that
a great many transfers have been made
to selected cemeteries. where bodies can
be more satisfactorily cared for.
More than three prints cannot be
supplied by the Red Cross. The Graves
Registration Service and the American
Red Cross will be amply rapaid for long
months Of ardudous labor ifayou accept
these photographs as a reuerent tribute
to the American soldier who made the
supreme sacrifice
The letter is signed by D. R. Castle,
Jr., Director, Department of Com
munication, American Red Cross, Wash
ington; D. C.