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Sidney Walter Bernitt - Marshfield, Coos Co., Oregon

Army Rank: Private (1918).

Assigned Unit: 6^th Bn., 20^th Engineers, Co. D

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Army Discharge: Eternal Watch

Remarks:  Overseas Jan. 24, 1918 – KIA

   Torpedoed on the Transport Tuscania Feb. 5, 1918

   Address: Marshfield, OR (1900)

   Address: 372 North First Street, Marshfield, OR (1917)

   Marshfield Oregon name changed to Coos Bay, OR in 1944

Fathers Name: Edward Wilhelm Bernitt (b. May 1856 Germany)

Mothers Name: Eliza M. Hilmers (b. June 1856 Germany)

Brothers: Willie & John Bernitt

Sisters: Nellie & Martha Bernitt

Civilian Occupation: Laborer farmer (1910)

Born: Feb. 26, 1889 Marshfield, Oregon

Died: Feb. 5, 1918 KIA, Coast of Scotland

  Buried in Kilnaughton, Island of Islay February 12, 1918

  Body exhumed and relocated to America; 1920 or thereafter

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